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Serverless vs erwin Evolve comparison

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Categories and Ranking

erwin Evolve
Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management
12th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (19th)
Serverless
Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Enterprise Architecture Management category, the mindshare of erwin Evolve is 3.5%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Serverless is 0.5%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Architecture Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Serverless0.5%
erwin Evolve3.5%
Other96.0%
Enterprise Architecture Management
 

Featured Reviews

ScottLawson - PeerSpot reviewer
Director IT Architecture at QAD
Enables us to present data and objects visually, in diagrams, and to make them available via the web. Also enables web-based editing of data.
We tried their collaborative web modeling and we used it with a few people but we tend to not use that piece. We tend to collaborate with the people and then my team of architects draws up the diagram using the modeling tool. We then iterate through those. I would like to use it, but it was a little clunky when they first rolled it out. Overall, it's more about the company having room for improvement. What they need to do is to consolidate more of their products. For example, I was just looking and I couldn't figure out what erwin DT is. It's on the website but it would help if they could put information together and make it more clear as to what products they have and how they work with other things. I hear them talking in the support forums and, when I talk to the representative, they say they're going to do a bunch of stuff but it seems the progress is slow. The changes they need to make are to take their old, legacy product, which we use, and focus a lot on it so they can transform it into a modern cloud tool so that we have fewer little pieces to deal with. They could also fix their security model. It's very confusing to get new people onto the tool and to make sure that your content isn't being exposed to the wrong people.
SA
Lead Software Engineer
Serverless workflows have boosted rapid AWS development but still need better CI and automation
Serverless has many advantages, and it is very easy to handle with a cloud solution. However, there are a few concerns about the limitations. Especially when I work with Lambdas, there are maximum Lambda timeouts. Likewise, there are several things from Serverless, such as maximum file uploads. Serverless can be improved by addressing the challenges faced when we have the first infrastructure. Sometimes it is hard because we need to manually create things such as Cognito pools. While 90 percent of the time is automated, more automation would be better. If Serverless provided CI/CD capabilities, that would also be great, as currently it only allows for manual deployments. Additionally, when working with cloud services, Serverless allows the use of LocalStack or Serverless Dev, but I think Serverless Dev might need simplification for easy access without organization registration. When considering needed improvements, I get frustrated with Lambda time and similar issues, which are actually not related to Serverless but rather are AWS issues. However, when discussing Serverless, the main points I see require improvement from the Serverless end.

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

Pros

"Erwin has enabled us to build and manage a portfolio of over 1,000 large data models across more than 60 lines of business, many of which are related and synchronized."
"The initial setup was really straightforward and the deployment was done within one day."
"Enterprise Architecture improved our organization by giving clarity over the data that is available."
"I have not seen capabilities for web-sharing and interaction with the architecture from any other supplier. It's a great capability..."
"Erwin EA provides superior, exemplar capabilities to scale across all stakeholders."
"Forward and reverse engineering were valuable features."
"Without this tool, we couldn't have made and defined all the new processes."
"It is a customizable tool that allows you to do a lot of architectural modeling for customers, and you can use different kinds of diagrams to represent the architecture setting."
"Serverless is a great tool for every software engineer, and if any software engineer has not used this tool, they are lacking knowledge and a great opportunity."
"In terms of time or cost saved compared to before using Serverless, I save approximately 60 percent of my development time because everything is very lightweight and gives me the freedom to work within Serverless."
"Serverless offers many best features; it is really easy to use, very developer-friendly, and has a great community."
"I can share specific metrics indicating Serverless's positive impact: I achieved 100% uptime, an impressive feat compared to traditional servers that often experience downtime during peak usage."
"Serverless positively impacts my organization by being really cost-effective and serving as a production performance testing tool, as we increase the load, it automatically increases the CPUs and RAM without needing any manual intervention or heavy servers for this type of testing."
"There is a huge impact as my traffic gets auto-adjusted, I do not have to worry about whether my server is capable of handling the traffic or not, Serverless servers are much more capable, and I just need to pay for whatever I am using."
"My advice to others looking into using Serverless is that you can use it if you want to save money, if you don't want to manage servers, if you only want to be charged for the amount of time you use, and if you want to run code and ad hoc tasks."
"Serverless has made my day-to-day work easier because we don't have to set up an extra team, and with fewer resources we can use it effectively."
 

Cons

"The solution's integration capabilities with other tools in our system has not been all that well done. We have people who use ARIS, who use System Architect and, of course, Visio. erwin has very limited ways to import and export from those kinds of tools. It's not a very easy thing to do."
"Business process modelling could be improved."
"There might be improvement required to better support some of the MPP databases for non-relational data structures and NoSQL databases."
"I would like it to be easier to make changes and then deploy them into production, especially when you have multiple web servers or front-ends. It would be nice to make a change and then have it propagate to the production servers in a more automated fashion."
"They have improved the search engine a little bit but it can always be improved more. The more data you put inside it, the more you want to use it."
"I feel that the UML drawing capability needs to be improved."
"I would like to see an improvement in the output of the solution."
"What they need to do is to consolidate more of their products. For example, I was just looking and I couldn't figure out what erwin DT is. It's on the website but it would help if they could put information together and make it more clear as to what products they have and how they work with other things."
"Serverless is not completely effective for large-scale applications."
"Serverless can be improved by effectively handling large scale applications, as large scale applications would save more money."
"To improve Serverless, I think if the AWS team provided more common examples of how to implement in our current project, along with some demos, it would be very helpful for us."
"I believe Serverless can be improved as I have faced some pain points and challenges."
"I see that the local development setup in Serverless is more complex, so if you provide examples or automation that we can test and deploy locally on a local machine, then automatically shifting all methods or functions into production would significantly improve efficiency."
"Serverless is a very comprehensive platform. I have not explored everything, but I use it only for traffic management and the auto-scaling features. That is why I deducted one point."
"Serverless is not suited for production environments."
"The scalability of Serverless is limited; as you increase your code, it is not scalable, and we need to think out of the box to solve several problems."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think erwin is quite expensive. I have difficulty selling the portal, in fact."
"Unless you are a one person shop – always go with the Workgroup edition and Concurrent licensing."
"The cost is something like $15,000, per license. But I haven't looked at those numbers in three years. It was over $100,000 to initially set everything up and get it all configured."
"Yearly, our cost is €100,000."
"On a yearly basis, our licensing costs are 50,000 euro. There are no additional costs because we are on a SaaS model."
"I estimate that we pay between $40,000 and $50,000 a year for the solution, not including the upfront costs to buy things the first time."
"The licensing enables you to differentiate between people who edit the content and the people who consume it. We are able to keep the licensing costs down by keeping the "contributor" licenses to a minimum, and we then just roll out the content in a read-only version for the rest of our users."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
14%
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
28%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise5
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Serverless?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was pretty straightforward and smooth. AWS has a number of in-built Serverless options, so you didn't really need to go to the marketplace. Th...
What needs improvement with Serverless?
I think we are moving in the right direction because AWS recently announced something regarding VMs and Lambda VMs for long-running Lambdas. There are also SnapStart and a few other things availabl...
What is your primary use case for Serverless?
We primarily run jobs on Serverless, specifically on AWS Lambda, using short-running jobs triggered by events. We can connect to an API Gateway for various purposes. For instance, if a client wants...
 

Also Known As

erwin EA, erwin Business Process, erwin Enterprise Architecture
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Sample Customers

AT&T, Bank of America, Chevron, Duke University, ESPN, Fidelity, GE, JP Morgan Chase, KPMG, McGraw Hill, NASA, Pfizer, Royal Bank of Scotland, Teradata, Union Pacific, Vodafone, Wells Fargo.
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