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We performed a comparison between BigID and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Governance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"BigID's scanning feature is its most valuable component.""One of the most valuable things in a data-focused world is a tool, a technology that's data-centric, not trying to master data management or whatever else. It's a source of truth for what data an organization holds, giving it the ability to catalog, categorize, and understand its data.""BigID integrates well with our other products.""The features that I have found most valuable are the user experience, the credentialing, and that BigID is user friendly. Additionally, you can deploy to several other Microsoft platforms and you can use it for other things, like a bigger element or a report."

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"Overall, DI's data cataloging, data literacy, and automation have helped our decision-makers because when a source wants to change something, we immediately know what the impact is going to be downstream.""Data Intelligence has provided more profound insights into legacy data movements, lineages, and definitions in the short term. We have linked three critical layers of data, providing us with an end-to-end lineage at the column level.""Data Intelligence allows us to automate multiple tasks we had previously done manually, such as restructuring the metadata for our purposes, setting up ETL flows, and defining the data tables we create. It also enables us to standardize our approach and our technical processes.""The biggest benefit with erwin DI is that I have a single source of truth that I can send anybody to. If anybody doesn't know the answer we can go back to it. Just having a central location of business rules is good.""They have just the most marvelous reports called mind maps, where whatever you are focused on sits in the middle. They have this wonderful graphic spiderweb that spreads out from there where you can see this thing mapped to other logical bits or physical bits and who's the steward of it. It's very cool and available to your business teams through a portal.""The interface is easy to use. I also like Erwin's automatic data classification and data quality checks.""We always know where our data is, and anybody can look that up, whether they're a business person who doesn't know anything about Informatica, or a developer who knows everything about creating data movement jobs in Informatica, but who does not understand the business terminology or the data that is being used in the tool.""erwin has tremendous capabilities to map right from the business technologies to the endpoint, such as physical entities and physical attributes, from a lineage standpoint."

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Cons
"BigID is expensive. I prefer McAfee.""BigID is making some forays into the GRC space, and that's a natural progression. I'd like to see that improve so that data governance is better, data risk is identified, and the ability to control and mitigate it.""In terms of what could be improved, when you're looking in a BigID file, you cannot really get the whole file. You have to export it to download it to another platform that allows you to completely view it, or run a program. That was one of the things that was really a disappointing point for me. Not to be able to view everything. There's a lot more data, but you can't get it all at once.""The tool currently lacks security features."

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"There was a huge learning curve, and I'd been in software development for most of my career. The application itself, and how it runs menus and screens when you can modify and code, is complex. I have found that kind of cumbersome.""If we are talking about the business side of the product, maybe the Data Literacy could be made a bit simpler. You have to put your hands on it, so there is room for improvement.""There is room for improvement with the data cataloging capability. Right now, there is a list of a lot of sources that they can catalog, or they can create metadata upon, but if they can add more then that would be a good plus for this tool.""We chose to implement on an Oracle Database because we also had the erwin Data Modeler and Web Portal products in-house, which have been set up on Oracle Databases for many years. Sometimes the Oracle Database installation has caused some hiccups that wouldn't necessarily have been caused if we had used SQL Server.""Everything about Data Intelligence is complex. Though we've used the tool for five years, we're still only using about 30 to 40 percent of its capabilities. It would be helpful if we could customize and simplify the user interface because there are so many redundant things.""One big improvement we would like to see would be the workflow integration of codeset mapping with the erwin source to target mapping. That's a bit clunky for us. The two often seem to be in conflict with one another. Codeset mappings that are used within the source to target mappings are difficult to manage because they get locked.""The data quality assessment requires third-party components and a separate license.""Another area where it can improve is by having BB-Graph-type databases where relationship discovery and relationship identification are much easier."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing depends. If you have thousands of data sources to connect and manage, and you struggled with an MDM package in the past, you'll find BigID valuable and even cheap. But if you're a small business, it's probably not the right tool for you."
  • "I think that BigID's pricing is very reasonable."
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  • "The licensing cost is around $7,000 for user. This is an estimation."
  • "There is an additional fee for the server maintenance."
  • "The whole suite, not just the DI but the modeling software, the harvester, Mapping Manager — everything we have — is about $100,000 a year for our renewals. That works out to each module being something like $8,000 to $10,000."
  • "erwin's pricing was cheaper than its competitors."
  • "You buy a seat license for your portal. We have 100 seats for the portal, then you buy just the development licenses for the people who are going to put the data in."
  • "erwin is cheaper than other solutions and this should appeal to other buyers. It has a good price tag."
  • "We operate on a yearly subscription and because it is an enterprise license we only have one. It is not dependent on the number of users."
  • "Smart Data Connectors have some costs, and then there are user-based licenses. We spend roughly $150,000 per year on the solution. It is a yearly subscription license that basically includes the cost for Smart Data Connectors and user-based licenses. We have around 30 data stewards who maintain definitions, and then we have five IT users who basically maintain the overall solution. It is not a SaaS kind of operation, and there is an infrastructure cost to host this solution, which is our regular AWS hosting cost."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:BigID's scanning feature is its most valuable component.
    Top Answer:It would be great if improvements can be made to the product. Based on one of the meetings that I have had with those who work for BigID, I feel that they don't intend for BigID to focus on the area… more »
    Top Answer:My company works with BigID since it serves as a data governance and security management tool. My company currently has a customer for BigID in the pipeline for whom we configured the product's PoC… more »
    Top Answer:The data mapping manager is the most valuable feature.
    Top Answer:The data quality assessment requires third-party components and a separate license. I would like to have better integration around the data quality. I would appreciate the inclusion of a… more »
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    Also Known As
    erwin DG, erwin Data Governance
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    Overview

    BigID is a leader in data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: enabling organizations to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their data in a single platform for data visibility and control. Customers use BigID to reduce their data risk, automate security and privacy controls, achieve compliance, and understand their data across their entire data landscape: including multicloud, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on-prem data sources.

    • Drives visibility and control for all sensitive & critical datah
    • helps organizations understand and minimize data risk across the cloud & on-prem 
    • AI automation
    • End-to-end data lifecycle management
    • DSPM
    • Data Security
    • Privacy Automation
    • Data inventory
    • Compliance


      The erwin Data Intelligence Suite (erwin DI) combines data catalog and data literacy capabilities for greater awareness of and access to available data assets, guidance on their use, and guardrails to ensure data policies and best practices are followed. Automatically harvest, transform and feed metadata from a wide array of data sources, operational processes, business applications and data models into a central data catalog. Then make it accessible and understandable within context via role-based views. This complete metadata-driven approach to data governance facilitates greater IT and business collaboration.

      Sample Customers
      Home Depot, Grant Thornton LLP, Cimpress, Fidelity Investments
      Oracle, Infosys, GSK, Toyota Motor Sales, HSBC
      Top Industries
      VISITORS READING REVIEWS
      Financial Services Firm26%
      Computer Software Company12%
      Insurance Company7%
      Manufacturing Company6%
      REVIEWERS
      Insurance Company28%
      Pharma/Biotech Company22%
      Computer Software Company22%
      Healthcare Company6%
      VISITORS READING REVIEWS
      Computer Software Company13%
      Financial Services Firm12%
      Government11%
      Insurance Company8%
      Company Size
      VISITORS READING REVIEWS
      Small Business21%
      Midsize Enterprise8%
      Large Enterprise71%
      REVIEWERS
      Small Business5%
      Midsize Enterprise21%
      Large Enterprise74%
      VISITORS READING REVIEWS
      Small Business25%
      Midsize Enterprise12%
      Large Enterprise64%
      Buyer's Guide
      BigID vs. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest
      March 2024
      Find out what your peers are saying about BigID vs. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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      BigID is ranked 8th in Data Governance with 4 reviews while erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 18 reviews. BigID is rated 8.4, while erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of BigID writes "Commendable and robust data-centric tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest writes "Enabled us to centralize a tremendous amount of data into a common standard, and uniform reporting has decreased report requests". BigID is most compared with Varonis Platform, Microsoft Purview, Cyera , Collibra Governance and OneTrust DataGovernance, whereas erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Informatica Axon and SAS Data Management. See our BigID vs. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest report.

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