We performed a comparison between erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and Varonis Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Governance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Data Intelligence creates a single source of truth for all of our metadata. This solution is better for data warehousing, but the metadata features speed up our development work. It's easy to create and manage mappings because we can export them to Informatica and pick up the work where we left off."
"There is a wide range of widgets that enables the user to find the proper information quickly. The presentation of information is something very valuable."
"erwin has tremendous capabilities to map right from the business technologies to the endpoint, such as physical entities and physical attributes, from a lineage standpoint."
"Mind map... is a really good feature because it is very helpful in seeing which column's tables are related. Also, you can flag them with "sensitive data" and other indicators. You can also customize your own features for the mind map. That was another very robust feature."
"The data mapping manager is the most valuable feature."
"Overall, DI's data cataloging, data literacy, and automation have helped our decision-makers because when a source wants to change something, we immediately know what the impact is going to be downstream."
"We use the codeset mapping quite a bit to match value pairs to use within the conversion as well. Those value pair mappings come in quite handy and are utilized quite extensively. They then feed into the automation of the source data extraction, like the source data mapping of the source data extraction, the code development, forward engineering using the ODI connector for the forward automation."
"It is a central place for everybody to start any ETL data pipeline builds. This tool is being heavily used, plus it's heavily integrated with all the ETL data pipeline design and build processes. Nobody can bypass these processes and do something without going through this tool."
"Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system."
"The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand what's happening in our environment."
"Another area where it can improve is by having BB-Graph-type databases where relationship discovery and relationship identification are much easier."
"The solution's Arabic language processing is limited. The results are limited when you use the interface in Arabic."
"One big improvement we would like to see would be the workflow integration of codeset mapping with the erwin source to target mapping. That's a bit clunky for us. The two often seem to be in conflict with one another. Codeset mappings that are used within the source to target mappings are difficult to manage because they get locked."
"The data quality assessment requires third-party components and a separate license."
"The technical support could be improved."
"There is room for improvement with the data cataloging capability. Right now, there is a list of a lot of sources that they can catalog, or they can create metadata upon, but if they can add more then that would be a good plus for this tool."
"There was a huge learning curve, and I'd been in software development for most of my career. The application itself, and how it runs menus and screens when you can modify and code, is complex. I have found that kind of cumbersome."
"The SDK behind this entire product needs improvement. The company really should focus more on this because we were finding some inconsistencies on the LDK level. Everything worked fine from the UI perspective, but when we started doing some deep automation scripts going through multiple API calls inside the tool, then only some pieces of it work or it would not return the exact data it was supposed to do."
"The product is very complicated."
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erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is ranked 4th in Data Governance with 18 reviews while Varonis Platform is ranked 10th in Data Governance with 2 reviews. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is rated 8.6, while Varonis Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest writes "Enabled us to centralize a tremendous amount of data into a common standard, and uniform reporting has decreased report requests". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Varonis Platform writes "Offers visibility and helps to keep track of access ". erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog and Informatica Axon, whereas Varonis Platform is most compared with Microsoft Purview, BigID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Veritas Data Insight and Microsoft Purview Information Protection. See our Varonis Platform vs. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest report.
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