erwin Data Modeler vs. Precisely Data360 Govern

If you have a database environment that gets frequent schema object change requests. erwin Data Modeler is a great tool for version control and release control. Also, it's very useful to communicate between database and application teams.

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For standardization, it has worked well. The data validation checks work great too

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• Creation of logical data models
• Reverse engineering
• Excellent communication tool in conversations with Developers and BAs
• As a company, Erwin provides lots of tutorials and how-tos.

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• erwin Data Modeler allows only 25 entities in a trial version. It really limits you when you want to try out the product before actually deciding to pay for licensing cost. It would be rather helpful if they limit the trial period by days instead.
• The UI is pretty good but sometimes the large diagrams are hard to manage. A little improvement in that area would be helpful.

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The product is well designed and intuitive to use. The number of buttons and options can look a bit overwhelming initially but they come very handy when you get used to product.

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It is easy to navigate, but can be finnicky in finding exactly what you need, especially if different objects have similar names, e.g. a table, relationship, column, platform, could all have variations of similar names, and it can get confusing what level you are navigating on when exploring. It also depends on the upkeep of updated information, such as metadata and descriptions associated with data assets

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CA customer support and our account manager have been able to support us with any issues that we have had, from managing our serial keys to issues we logged tickets to resolve. There are aspects of key management that have made it difficult over the years but support usually has worked with us.

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I have used few other data modeling tools like Toad Data Modeler and SQL Developer Data Modeler. erwin Data Modeler is easy to use and has additional features that make overall data modeling productive and easy to manage.

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We chose precisely Precisely Data360 Govern because of it's customization and configuration options, which fit our business' unique needs, as well as its integration with other tools from the precisely Precisely Data360 Govern suite, namely Analyze and DQ+. We were able to implement all 3 together, and Precisely Data360 Govern can pull data quality scoring data from DQ+. Additionally, it was less costly compared to informatica.

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• Reduced rework from when models were maintained individually.
• Reduced the amount of time to generate and compare models during development.
• Massively reduced the amount of time to reverse engineer 3rd party data models for analysis.

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