We performed a comparison between IDERA ER/Studio and PTC Windchill based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."The data modeling and reverse engineering features are most important to us."
"The most valuable features are... those that enable me to represent the database to the development community and the business users."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is generating DDL (data definition language)."
"The most important features are logical and physical models that we can compare and develop. Also, the Data Dictionary can be created out of your studio. Finally, database schemas help understand the logic that's behind the scene, behind the SQL tables. Especially when there are a lot of them, the schemas help everyone understand the business processes."
"We are able to document the data lineage and data flows of our data from one system to another."
"This application does a lot of things, as do competitor products, but the main reason to go with this product was the ability to create many automations, where we can improve our work and our process."
"We use the solution to create data models which describe our company's data architecture"
"The data modeling module is important to me because I am a database developer and designer... It's very fast, reliable, up-to-date, so easy to use, smooth."
"I like how the product integrates with other technical solutions."
"When building the relationships there should be a little more flexibility."
"The only thing I had an issue with was licensing, and the support was very good."
"It would be helpful if they could create a generic JSON database type, as a target database, rather than a specific one like Mongo."
"We did have a big issue when we upgraded to the 2016 version. The Team Server portion never did quite install correctly, and/or the database was corrupted, and we never figured it out."
"I would like to see better documentation/help for the Data Architect tool. Creation of tutorials would be nice, as there are some features which are not as clearly defined as they should be."
"The model diagram because very clumsy when you save it on the team server and the models are very big."
"This solution needs more precise documentation."
"The visual presentation is a little too colorful and seems that it is dumbed down."
"Some parts of the system are exclusive, so we can't work with them."
IDERA ER/Studio is ranked 10th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 34 reviews while PTC Windchill is ranked 22nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review. IDERA ER/Studio is rated 8.4, while PTC Windchill is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of IDERA ER/Studio writes "The solution has important reverse engineering features, but it needs a single sign-on feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PTC Windchill writes "Pricy and tough to integrate with some solutions, though it provided essential support for workflows". IDERA ER/Studio is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, SAP PowerDesigner, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Toad Data Modeler and erwin Evolve by Quest, whereas PTC Windchill is most compared with Intralink, Omnify Empower PLM, Siemens PLM TeamCenter, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Aras Innovator.
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