I did try to use some products that could compete with Toad Data Modeler, but I found that Quest Software has more mature products.

I used SalesForce.

I used SwisSQL data migration 5.0 and Oracle Developer. I wanted to connect to different databases, and be able to query across them, and Toad was perfect for that.

Microsoft Access was used before jumping to Toad which created a lot of issues as there was no common database and everyone used their own local database.

It's been so long since I last used erwin Data Modeler, and I'm not sure how that tool is today, but from what I heard, Toad Data Modeler has more functionality than erwin Data Modeler.

We evaluated other data model software.

Prior to TOAD, we had to use many other apps for testing, compiling code or even the Oracle command line. TOAD eliminates the need to open or use other tools.

I have tried Oracle SQL Developer before, but I prefer to use Toad. It really is faster to build solutions with Toad.

No previous solution was used.

MS Access. We switched because we were accessing an Oracle DB in the cloud with lots of data. Access needed to download the data in order to process queries which ended up either taking forever or not working at all. Toad allowed us to run the query on the cloud DB and, return data from the query. Made things much faster.

This is the only solution I've used.

We started with Toad, and stayed with it.

I've used Toad from the beginning.

Yes. I switched because SQL Developer was still in its infancy.