We performed a comparison between CA IDMS and IDERA ER/Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."Technical support is very good. They are very knowledgeable, very quick to respond, and very nice people, too."
"It is a really stable platform. It has been around for many years. We trust it implicitly. "
"The most useful feature is the governance feature, because it can show us and help us to manage user profiles very quickly and using it in assertive way."
"Data lineage tracking: It allows us to identify upstream and downstream systems using data."
"Straightforward setup."
"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."
"We have been able to quickly create models for our enterprise-wide databases, even when some of them are third-party databases."
"We found a lot of duplication, a lot of non-conformity in the way our databases were designed. By identifying these situations, we're able to go back in and try to create a more standardized solution."
"The tool is simple to use."
"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."
"I would like to see it made simpler to operate and maintain."
"Right now, it's not easy to start using this solution. You have to take long course and train people. It's not an easy path."
"when there are some links to the external databases, if this database is not structured it is not uploaded. It gives me errors and I cannot see the view that was created on this structure and I cannot change those views, even manually. It skips the views. I have to ignore those views. I cannot re-upload them because it gives me an error."
"We would always like to see Repository performance improve, checking in and checking out."
"The solution could be sped up, as it is a little slow (e.g., when it's doing its database compare)."
"What needs the most improvement are semantic lineage and usability."
"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."
"I'd like the ability to debug the errors ourselves instead of having to call them. There are certain types of errors that, I wouldn't say they come up regularly, but when you have an error it is very often the same type of error. Knowing that it's a Type III or Type I, it would be nice to have some kind of debugging facility for us to use to find out where the problem that threw that error occurs. That would be a really cool feature."
"They allow functionalities to be released before the full tests for catching and correcting errors are completed."
"The only thing I had an issue with was licensing, and the support was very good."
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CA IDMS is ranked 31st in Database Development and Management while IDERA ER/Studio is ranked 13th in Database Development and Management with 33 reviews. CA IDMS is rated 9.0, while IDERA ER/Studio is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of CA IDMS writes "We get network database performance. It supports our back office". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IDERA ER/Studio writes "The solution has important reverse engineering features, but it needs a single sign-on feature". CA IDMS is most compared with IBM IMS, CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS, CA Datacom and Adabas, whereas IDERA ER/Studio is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, SAP PowerDesigner, Toad Data Modeler and erwin Evolve by Quest.
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