Global Data Excellence DEMS vs erwin Data Intelligence by Quest comparison

erwin by Quest and Global Data Excellence are both solutions in the Data Governance category. erwin by Quest is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.2, while Global Data Excellence is ranked #41. erwin by Quest holds a 2.2% mindshare in DG, compared to Global Data Excellence’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of erwin by Quest users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Global Data Excellence DEMS and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest are competing in the data management and intelligence category. DEMS holds an advantage in pricing and support, while erwin Data Intelligence is favored for its advanced features.

Features: Global Data Excellence DEMS focuses on data governance and risk management, emphasizing ethical AI and regulatory compliance with customization capabilities. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest offers strong data lineage and impact analysis, comprehensive platform integration, and advanced data modeling features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Global Data Excellence DEMS supports a streamlined deployment process with a focus on support, enhancing integration. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest provides a flexible deployment model with thorough documentation and training, though setup complexity may occur. DEMS's customer service is robust in responsiveness and problem resolution.

Pricing and ROI: Global Data Excellence DEMS is competitive in pricing with quick ROI due to effective implementation and support. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, despite higher initial costs, offers long-term ROI through its extensive features and integration. DEMS is cost-effective initially, while erwin provides significant value over time with its advanced functions.

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Categories and Ranking

erwin Data Intelligence by ...

Ranking in Data Governance

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

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Ranking in other categories

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Global Data Excellence DEMS

Ranking in Data Governance

41st

Average Rating

0.0

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is 2.2%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Global Data Excellence DEMS is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Governance

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Roy Pollack

Advisor Application Architect at CPS Energy

The solution provides more profound insights into legacy data movements, lineages, and definitions in the short term.

We have loaded over 300,000 attributes and more than 1000 mappings. The performance is slow, depending on the lineage or search. This is supposed to be fixed in the later versions, but we haven't upgraded yet. The integration with various metadata sources, including erwin Data Modeler, isn't smooth in the current version. It took some experimentation to get things working. We hope this is improved in the newer version. The initial version we used felt awkward because Erwin implemented features from other companies into their offering.

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Alejandro Subia

General Manager at Datia

All-in-one solution for data governance, data quality, business transformation, and business excellence

It is not only a software solution. It is also based on a direct policy. You get a methodology for data governance and the solution that supports this methodology, which makes things much easier. In addition, this is the only solution right now in the market that has an approach directly directed to the value. By value, I am referring to a tangible value raising money. It has an aspect that is called governed by value. We only focus on the data that is actually bringing a monetary value to your organization or your business process. It is so much simpler working around this system. It has a lot of intelligence embedded in it, and it does a lot of things automatically. It just hooks on to your virtual databases, and you are ready to go in hours. It is an all-in-one solution in which you get data governance, data quality, business transformation, and business excellence.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution saves time in data discovery and understanding our entire organization's data."

"It is a central place for everybody to start any ETL data pipeline builds. This tool is being heavily used, plus it's heavily integrated with all the ETL data pipeline design and build processes. Nobody can bypass these processes and do something without going through this tool."

"The data management is, obviously, key in understanding where the data is and what the data is. And the governance can be done at multiple levels. You have the governance of the code sets versus the governance of the business terms and the definitions of those business terms. You have the governance of the business data models and how those business data models are driving the physical implementation of the actual databases. And, of course, you have the governance of the mapping to make sure that source-to-target mapping is done and is being shared across the company."

"The solution gives us data lineage which means we can see an impact if we make a change. The ability for us to have that in this company is brilliant because we used to have 49 data stewards from some 23 different groups within six major departments. Each one of those was a silo unto itself. The ability to have different glossaries — but all pointed to the same key terms, key concepts, or key attributes — has made life really simple."

"The interface is easy to use. I also like Erwin's automatic data classification and data quality checks."

"There is a wide range of widgets that enables the user to find the proper information quickly. The presentation of information is something very valuable."

"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."

"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."

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"It is not only a software solution. It is also based on a direct policy. You get a methodology for data governance and the solution that supports this methodology, which makes things much easier. In addition, this is the only solution right now in the market that has an approach directly directed to the value. By value, I am referring to a tangible value raising money. It has an aspect that is called governed by value. We only focus on the data that is actually bringing a monetary value to your organization or your business process. It is so much simpler working around this system. It has a lot of intelligence embedded in it, and it does a lot of things automatically. It just hooks on to your virtual databases, and you are ready to go in hours. It is an all-in-one solution in which you get data governance, data quality, business transformation, and business excellence."

"The most valuable feature is the semantic linguistic artificial intelligence that allows the user to have contact with the system in their natural language."

Cons

"There are a lot of little things like moving between read screens and edit screens. Those little human interface type of programming pieces will need to mature a bit to make it easier to get to where you want to go to put the stuff in."

"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."

"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."

"The versioning can sometimes be confusing because we use the publishing feature for the mapping. Technical analysts sometimes have two versions, and they should know that the public version is the correct one."

"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."

"The fact that I sometimes have to go in and out of different applications, even though it's all part of the whole erwin suite, perhaps means it could be architected a little bit better. I think they do have some ideas for improvements there."

"The solution's Arabic language processing is limited. The results are limited when you use the interface in Arabic."

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"It could be nice to have a little update on the menu to get it more up-to-date with current trends and to make it pop out more when you visit the site."

"Its interface could be simpler. Sometimes, you need to go through many clicks in order to find something in the software. You need to move from one thing to another to find something."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"erwin was at a good price. The federal government wouldn't buy something if the pricing wasn't good."

"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."

"erwin is cheaper than other solutions and this should appeal to other buyers. It has a good price tag."

"erwin's pricing was cheaper than its competitors."

"The solution is aggressively priced."

"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."

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"This is the only company that I've worked with that has a very good way of thinking and placing itself in the buyer's shoes. They offer a pretty competitive price. They understand that the market is different in our economy for different clients, which makes it easier to get the products into the market. If needed, they are pretty open to adjusting the price on the case-by-case scenario. They understand the Latin American market. This is something that has been impossible with other companies or data governance care providers. The prices were much higher for these companies, and they don't understand our economy and market. There are a lot of local taxes that we pay locally to get any solution down here. To give you an idea, there is more or less a 60% increase in the price of any product that comes to Ecuador."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about erwin Data Intelligence by Quest?

The data mapping manager is the most valuable feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for erwin Data Intelligence by Quest?

The price is reasonable, and a subscription is required.

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What needs improvement with erwin Data Intelligence by Quest?

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 non-struct...

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Overview

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.

erwin by Quest

The Data Excellence Management System© (DEMS) is a complete integrated cloud-based system (internal or external) that enables organizations to accelerate the maximization of the business value of organization’ strategies and transactions while minimizing operational costs. It provides a factual value-driven collaboration that engages end-users from all levels in the ultimate value creation.

DEMS fits the maturity of your organization functions and resources. It establishes accountability and responsibility throughout the organizational structure and links the data assets to the value flows to predicatively govern business strategies.

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Oracle, Infosys, GSK, Toyota Motor Sales, HSBC

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