Future Tech Systems Envision VIP vs IDERA ER/Studio comparison

Envision VIP is an agile, highly configurable enterprise modeling and knowledge integration environment. Easily customizable stakeholder views support secure collaborative access and analysis of all vital enterprise information. Strategic plans, business capabilities, services, processes, rules, risks, and literally any other desired enterprise resources, tangible or intangible, are securely managed as "Intuitive Business Objects". The key to Envision VIP´s power is its uniquely flexible business-object-oriented (BOO) repository combined with its intuitive user interface. Users can easily create standard or uniquely customized models, classes, and attributes. Dynamic links between these business objects – in the form of user-friendly graphical views, documents, text, pictures, sound, and video – are all easily supported. Additionally, users can apply filters and rules to manage and analyze these objects using various techniques. These tecniqies include spreadsheet-like Matrix Analysis, powerful report writing tools, and custom SQL query capabilities. Users can export models and other information maintained in Envision’s repository to other productivity applications, presentation packages, spreadsheets, and databases.

IDERA ER/Studio is a powerful suite for business-driven data modeling that enables companies to create an enterprise architecture foundation for data governance. With round-trip support for multiple database platforms, data architects have the power to reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases easily from diverse platforms. Data professionals can easily capture and share models, metadata, data sources, and glossaries across the organization for improved alignment between the organization and Information Technology. Organizational stakeholders can take part in the metadata definition workflow and access information on models and metadata at the right level for their needs.

Unlike its competition, it provides the broadest range of data platform support, industry-leading enterprise-level capabilities, visual data lineage and flow modeling, full dimensional modeling for data warehousing and business intelligence, and business data objects to bridge the gap between developers and data architects. It also provides a complete solution for enterprise architecture and data governance, extensive model change management, unique incorporation of true enterprise data dictionaries, unique linking of constructs across models, integrated visual data lineage import, and integrated data and business process modeling.