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We performed a comparison between Vanta and erwin Data Modeler 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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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

4.4

Erwin Data Modeler boosts efficiency and productivity with automation, customization, and streamlined data processes for large projects.

Sentiment score

4.2

Vanta improves ROI by streamlining evidence collection and supports security enhancement, though precise ROI metrics are challenging to assess.

If three engineers save ten hours each per month using erwin Data Modeler versus manual modeling, that equals three hundred sixty hours saved per year.

Snowflake Data Engineer| Senior PLSQL Developer |Data Modeler|Assitant Vice Pre at Jp Morgan Chase & Co.

It replaces manual charting in Visio with a structured tool, providing significant return on investment.

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Data Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

If the modeling is compromised, then the entire structure will be compromised.

reviewer2795649

Senior Data Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.2

Erwin Data Modeler's support is helpful but inconsistent, with regional variations and challenges in older database version assistance.

Sentiment score

6.5

Vanta's customer support is responsive and effective, with quick responses and appreciated flexibility, despite occasional initial contact delays.

The quality and speed of their support are excellent; everyone is very helpful, and they can solve problems quickly.

Yang Jiao

Senior Data Scientist at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

This rating reflects my ability to effectively utilize the tool and get support for licensing issues, installation errors, or corrupted repositories end-to-end.

Snowflake Data Engineer| Senior PLSQL Developer |Data Modeler|Assitant Vice Pre at Jp Morgan Chase & Co.

Quest is committed to keeping the product robust.

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Data Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Every time I ask their customer success team, if I get a technical question and I've done this half a dozen times in the last year, they will respond within the next 24 hours.

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Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The customer support from Vanta is good.

reviewer2794440

HITRUST and GRC Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.6

erwin Data Modeler is scalable, adaptable to new technologies, supports large models, and integrates with cloud and on-premise systems.

Sentiment score

7.0

Vanta excels in scalability and adaptability, supporting diverse needs, smooth integration, and growth for expanding companies.

I would rate it probably a nine, making it a leader in data modeling.

Data Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

erwin Data Modeler had a very good standardization infrastructure and supported a controlled multi-user environment with check-ins and check-outs.

Monisha Sharma

Data Metrics Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Performance can degrade during larger collaborations and requires tuning for optimal performance.

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Snowflake Data Engineer| Senior PLSQL Developer |Data Modeler|Assitant Vice Pre at Jp Morgan Chase & Co.

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

6.1

erwin Data Modeler is stable, improving in data governance, with strong performance, but needs auto-save for large models.

Sentiment score

7.7

Users perceive Vanta as stable and reliable, despite occasional latency and connection issues affecting some users.

This lack of an auto-save methodology can be improved so that if a system crash occurs, work can be saved and rework can be avoided.

Khadarvalli Phatan

Data Modeler at Capgemini

New versions often introduce enhanced features but may cause model crashes due to memory exhaustion.

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Data Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Sometimes when I want to open the attribute editor, it stops working and the whole application freezes.

Yang Jiao

Senior Data Scientist at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Vanta is very stable; we haven't had any downtimes or weird behavior so far, which we really appreciate.

Anas Rifai

DevOps Engineer / SRE at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

There are connection problems about 50% of the time because of the automated evidence collection.

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Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Room For Improvement

Users seek improvements in big-data support, user interface, reporting, database integration, workflows, collaboration, performance, automation, and licensing.

Vanta's user access module needs development, improved interfaces, flexible permissions, and better integration for effective policy management.

The previous version of erwin Data Modeler used to crash unaccountably, but this one hasn't ever crashed on me, so it's been a lot more stable than the previous version that we had.

Alton Thibodeaux

Data Warehouse Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

There are many features, and I would expect good documentation detailing each feature, including when and how to use it, to be very useful because data modeling is not very popular in the data area and there aren't many educational videos regarding erwin Data Modeler.

Yang Jiao

Senior Data Scientist at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Erwin Data Modeler could improve in areas such as the interface, as there are features like copy and paste, creating duplicates, and the visualization elements and toolbars which feel quite old.

Khadarvalli Phatan

Data Modeler at Capgemini

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Vanta has been really nice, with a nice user experience, clear layout, and very reasonable recommendations compared to other platforms we've tried.

Anas Rifai

DevOps Engineer / SRE at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

The UI is not super intuitive, but now that I've worked with it for a couple of years, I know how to navigate and get around.

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Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

I have to clear all CVEs before the test will pass.

reviewer2788602

Vice President of Technology at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Setup Cost

Erwin Data Modeler offers scalable licensing options with varying costs, influenced by region and potential bulk purchase discounts.

Enterprise buyers have mixed views on Vanta's pricing, finding it expensive yet valuable for reducing audit costs.

For a cloud or SaaS standard edition, it typically runs around two hundred to two hundred ninety-nine US dollars per month.

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Snowflake Data Engineer| Senior PLSQL Developer |Data Modeler|Assitant Vice Pre at Jp Morgan Chase & Co.

It is more targeted toward an enterprise level since organizations looking to store business information and relationship values may consider the pricing.

Khadarvalli Phatan

Data Modeler at Capgemini

Vanta's pricing for small businesses allows you to double that person's SOC/ISO compliance capabilities for less than the cost of another staff member.

reviewer2788602

Vice President of Technology at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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Valuable Features

Erwin Data Modeler enhances database management through visual representation, synchronization, governance, and collaboration across business and IT teams.

Vanta automates compliance, streamlines processes, and enhances integration, monitoring, and reporting to ensure data integrity and audit readiness.

One of the key aspects of data governance is defining the data dictionary and clearly identifying which data is accessible by whom and what is not accessible, particularly regarding PII-related data.

Asish Sahu

SPM at Infosys

The way the data is organized and you have a visual of that organization helps a great deal in terms of trying to remember what you did and trying to retrieve the information.

Monisha Sharma

Data Metrics Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Migrating DDLs using erwin Data Modeler is easy because I just connect to the database and generate the data model from what is already implemented, making the process straightforward.

Celso Adamo

Data Modeler at FNB Mozambique

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Vanta has positively impacted my organization by helping us remediate a lot of vulnerabilities and bad practices, especially from vulnerable ECR repos, and enforced good behavior.

Anas Rifai

DevOps Engineer / SRE at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

The best features Vanta offers in my opinion are the key performance indicators for framework compliance as well as integration into internal environments and accurate data provided towards compliance frameworks and metrics.

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HITRUST and GRC Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

All our policy documents are organized so I always know where I can go to get the latest and greatest version of those.

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Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Categories and Ranking

erwin Data Modeler

Ranking in Data Governance

9th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (1st), Business Process Design (6th)

Vanta

Ranking in Data Governance

14th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Compliance Consulting (1st), Compliance Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of erwin Data Modeler is 0.3%. The mindshare of Vanta is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Governance Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
erwin Data Modeler	0.3%
Vanta	1.2%
Other	98.5%

Data Governance

Featured Reviews

Data modeling has transformed regulatory reporting and collaboration across cloud environments

Snowflake Data Engineer| Senior PLSQL Developer |Data Modeler|Assitant Vice Pre at Jp Morgan Chase & Co.

In erwin Data Modeler, areas that have room for improvement include performance improvements. I see that large models sometimes cause it to be slow when opening. Impact analysis can lag as well. Version control is another aspect. If we have developed a current version, it is not integrated with Git where we can easily compare different versions. UI modernization is also something we cannot utilize as it is primarily for development. Additionally, cloud-specific optimizations are needed when it comes to Snowflake or Databricks. When it comes to AI aspects, auto-suggestions for normalization or identifying primary, foreign, or surrogate keys are areas that can be improved.

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Compliance workflows have become organized and automation supports ongoing healthcare audits

Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

There are always tons of rooms for improvement for Vanta. I kind of exaggerated a little bit about the policy control. I don't really love the way they handle the revision management of that feature. If I'm on V1 of the policy document and I make some changes to it, then I get rid of V1 and then I re-upload V2. It's not that it keeps a running history of each of the different revisions. A little bit of an issue with that, but workable. I don't really have any negative complaint right now that would be worthwhile expressing. It's just that there's a lot of features. The UI is not super intuitive, but now that I've worked with it for a couple of years, I know how to navigate and get around. Initially, it was a little bit of a struggle understanding how these things would all work.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Performing Arts

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

University

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	35

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	1

Questions from the Community

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

I have no idea about the setup cost because I did not buy the license.

What needs improvement with erwin Data Modeler by Quest?

As we all know, AI is taking up a majority of things. I felt that erwin Data Modeler is a bit of an outdated tool. It needs a new look and integrating AI into it would be much better for learning. ...

What is your primary use case for erwin Data Modeler by Quest?

For erwin Data Modeler, the use case was to create a data model for the organization. It articulates how data flows throughout the organization. For example, we have an employee table with two type...

What do you like most about Vanta?

The most valuable feature of Vanta is its prebuilt control frameworks.

What needs improvement with Vanta?

Failed tests for device CVEs seem to be cumulative, meaning I have to clear all CVEs before the test will pass, which makes it difficult to resolve the test before the next round of CVEs are publis...

What is your primary use case for Vanta?

My use case involves SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance.

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Overview

Erwin Data Modeler provides an effective approach to visualizing and managing data models. It assists in creating, reversing, and synchronizing data models with ease, supporting logical and physical transitions while enhancing understanding across teams.

Erwin Data Modeler is a comprehensive tool designed for professional database management. It offers capabilities to organize and enforce standards, automating script generation with robust reverse engineering and DDL output. Users can manage complex data environments, capitalize on integration with data intelligence, and maintain large-scale databases smoothly. Despite its strengths, improvements in multi-language support, database integration, and reporting features are needed. Users benefit from extensive support for conceptual, logical, and physical database modeling, enhancing architectural design and data governance for platforms like SQL Server, Oracle, and Teradata.

What are the key features of Erwin Data Modeler?

Visual Representation: Facilitates clear visualization of data models, aiding comprehension.
Versioning and Editing: Enhance usability with versioning and bulk editing capabilities.
Reverse Engineering: Offers powerful tools for reverse engineering and DDL generation.
Integration: Aligns with data intelligence to streamline database management.
Naming Standards: Enforces consistency with automated script creation.

What benefits should users consider in Erwin Data Modeler reviews?

Collaboration: Promotes team understanding and collaboration through visual tools.
Automation: Reduces manual effort through automated processes and integration.
Scalability: Handles large database management efficiently, crucial for enterprise settings.
Data Governance: Facilitates effective data governance with structured modeling.

Erwin Data Modeler finds application in industries focused on robust data management, implementing it for enterprise data warehouses, business domain models, and operational systems. It supports architectural design and governance, aligning with business applications demanding precise data representation and visualization.

Quest Software

Vanta helps companies scale security practices and automate compliance for the industry’s most sought after standards - SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA.

Sample Customers

Premera, America Honda Motors, Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Dental Dental Cali, Cigna, Staples

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