We performed a comparison between erwin Evolve by Quest and PTC Windchill based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."Evolve is like a tank. You can do whatever you want with the solution, but you need to customize it. I think that it's not very aligned with the framework for enterprise architecture. MEGA is focused on these enterprise architectures, but it's only for that. With Evolve, you can do everything you want with professional services."
"The ability to share and collaborate on the solution is its most valuable feature."
"I can send images in the PDF form, along with the relationships and the associations that are a very important part of what we do. It can show what is affected and what is impacted by a certain change in one area of the system architecture or enterprise architecture. I can very quickly draw those issues and topics to the fore."
"One of the most valuable features is the website that sits on top of the database. There's a database of objects and how they are related, and you can make views and diagrams and visual elements out of that information on the website. The website is the part that is called Evolve and we use the Evolve Designer and publish the website out to our employees. They can click around and navigate and search, etc."
"The initial setup was really straightforward and the deployment was done within one day."
"Evolve's reverse engineering ability is quite useful."
"We use erwin Evolve to publish to the website. This allows us to enable publishing our website using parameterisation features. In a very fast, quick way, we can publish a table or chart onto a website."
"Support for a broad range of data sources from relational to big data to the Cloud."
"I like how the product integrates with other technical solutions."
"The solution needs to focus on allowing for more integrations."
"What they need to do is to consolidate more of their products. For example, I was just looking and I couldn't figure out what erwin DT is. It's on the website but it would help if they could put information together and make it more clear as to what products they have and how they work with other things."
"With the Excel importing, the "up to date" part is the challenge. If we had a real-time integration, we could keep things up to date for whatever kinds of change points we had. With Excel, it is more that you have to export from one system then import it to another, so it's better for data that doesn't change that often."
"Add some ability to do conditional Visualization on the models and in reports (some ideas) – maybe as a specialized Theme or Diagram or Display."
"erwin Evolve by Quest could have additional features to manage the architecture of enterprises and businesses."
"I would like to see an improvement in the output of the solution."
"There might be improvement required to better support some of the MPP databases for non-relational data structures and NoSQL databases."
"They have improved the search engine a little bit but it can always be improved more. The more data you put inside it, the more you want to use it."
"Some parts of the system are exclusive, so we can't work with them."
erwin Evolve by Quest is ranked 9th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 19 reviews while PTC Windchill is ranked 22nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review. erwin Evolve by Quest is rated 7.8, while PTC Windchill is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of erwin Evolve by Quest writes "Enables us to present data and objects visually, in diagrams, and to make them available via the web. Also enables web-based editing of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PTC Windchill writes "Pricy and tough to integrate with some solutions, though it provided essential support for workflows". erwin Evolve by Quest is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, LeanIX, erwin Data Modeler by Quest, SAP PowerDesigner and IDERA ER/Studio, whereas PTC Windchill is most compared with Intralink, Omnify Empower PLM, Siemens PLM TeamCenter, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Arena PLM.
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