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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ER/Studio

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AER/Studio is a database development and management tool from Embarcadero Technologies (acquired by Idera) in California.

    $2,687

    per year per user

    Informatica Data Catalog

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AA solution to speed up analytics and data science projects with an automated, simplified data preparation tool.N/A
    Pricing
    ER/StudioInformatica Data Catalog
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $2,687
    per year per user
    Professional
    $3,693
    per year per user
    Enterprise
    Custom
    per year per user
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    Pricing Offerings
    ER/StudioInformatica Data Catalog
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing for new customers only, first year maintenance included. Maintenance includes access to technical support and product updates for the defined period of the agreement.—
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    User Ratings
    ER/StudioInformatica Data Catalog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    ER/StudioInformatica Data Catalog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Idera, Inc.
    Data Architect is well suited at organizations of all sizes. It is never too early or unnecessary to enforce proper modelling and design standards on data solutions, and this tool will help that greatly by providing an industry leading data modelling tool, ability to import ETL mappings for data lineage, enforcing and managing naming conventions through the naming convention tool, and publishing of data dictionaries through the report publisher. I was successfully able to build models, provide traceability, and document source to target with lineage throughout for both the business (by providing business definitions in the descriptions), and technical teams (by documenting ETL instructions in text fields) along with field level mapping (by creating "Attachments" representing data sources, tables, and fields) providing easy search capabilities using business friendly terms
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    Informatica
    I am working in a medical device company and we require a large amount of data to analyze. Handling large amounts of data using this tool is very easy and the user interface is easy and simple to navigate. Earlier we used to use excel and text files to extract the data but now using this tool we have improved in transforming the data.
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    Pros
    Idera, Inc.
    • ER/Studio has the ability to provide consistent field names and data types through domains, which are templates. This provides a way to have consistent naming of common fields, like CreatedBy and the data types for the fields. They also have the ability to change all the fields that use that domain to a different data type.
    • ER/Studio provides the ability to create custom macros. These macros can be used to apply everything from standard fields based on domains to naming all constraints and indexes. I've also used a macro that comes with ER/Studio to spell check field and table names.
    • My favorite feature is the ability to compare your data model to databases for deployments of changes, and to other data models.
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    Informatica
    • Improve the business process outcomes
    • Create internal/external operational efficiencies
    • Product functionality and performance
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    Cons
    Idera, Inc.
    • ER\Studio licensing can be cumbersome and upgrading from one version to another usually takes several phone calls and emails to the licensing group to get the update installed and running.
    • The repository can be slow when the model count gets larger. By large I mean 20 to 30 models.
    • A nice feature that I would like to see is table comments be displayed on the model along with the attributes. Currently you have to choose between the two.
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    Informatica
    • Dependency with other systems like Hadoop as it's data repository.
    • Service slow connection sometimes.
    • Configuration should be easy.
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    Support Rating
    Idera, Inc.
    I can call or email support and both get quick turn around. The only issue is they are on the west coast (US) and have a west coast work schedule and I'm on the East coast.
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    Idera, Inc.
    ER/Studio is the most mature, reach in features and quality and therefore useful. Unfortunately, it lacks compatibility with AWS Redshift.
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    Informatica
    To improve the business process outcomes we have purchased this tool. By using this tool data preparation is easy and much [more] flexible and I would suggest [it as] a good option to try. As it is built with powerful AI and supports as large datasets as we can get without any reduction in performance.
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    Return on Investment
    Idera, Inc.
    • ER/Studio has had a positive impact on my project as we can develop the data model and have a clear understanding of business needs before we continue with the development phase.
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    Informatica
    • Dependency on hadoop cluster as its repository
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    Screenshot of logical data models in ER/Studio Data Architect.Screenshot of data catalog in ER/Studio Data Architect.Screenshot of data glossaries in ER/Studio Data Architect.