Likelihood to Recommend IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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
Read full review SharePlex really shines when set alongside GoldenGate. The licensing costs of the two products would appear to place them in entirely different ballparks yet they perform nearly identically in practice. SharePlex is suitable for heterogenous replication of one database to another. The list of targets is ever increasing, with support for all major RDBMS vendors as well as support for popular NoSQL and JSON replication. SharePlex is effective when replicating from on-premise to cloud. Whether that's migrating data, creating a high-availability presence in a public or private cloud, or populating a data mart, it does the job quite well.
Read full review Pros IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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. Read full review SharePlex is highly configurable and versatile. It can handle virtually any kind of data replication needs. SharePlex is very robust. Its message queuing mechanism provides fast data transfer from the source to the target. SharePlex software is very stable and mature, and it is highly scalable and reliable. SharePlex support is exceptionally good. We are very satisfied with its support engineers. Read full review Cons IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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. Read full review When first introduced the Change Data Capture process was awkward. Each subsequent release has improved the process. Sometimes the Shareplex monitoring service in Foglight gets overly aggressive in sending out error notifications and can end up spamming the admins with email alerts for one problem. We have had to tone that down. Read full review Likelihood to Renew IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
We depend on it to supply data to our various OLTP and Data Warehouse environments
Read full review Usability IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
It is very usable once you get over the initial setup.
Read full review Support Rating IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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.
Read full review Support is very responsive. They take ownership of the problems and see them through to the finish. When a bug is found they work towards developing testing and making the fix available to us to solve the problem.
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ER/Studio is the most mature, reach in features and quality and therefore useful. Unfortunately, it lacks compatibility with AWS Redshift.
Read full review SharePlex support is an award-winning team, which is available for 24 hours, and any time they have solutions with perfect expertise. Besides, SharePlex has supported data migration, with multiple reporting features that ensure there are comprehensive database evaluations. The simplicity of SharePlex installation also gives it a higher mark, is very efficient, and allows companies to understand it easily.
Read full review Return on Investment IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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. Read full review Postive: easy to replicate data for non-prod use Negative: we spent a lot time due to data out of sync Read full review ScreenShots ER/Studio Data Architect Screenshots