IDERA ER/Studio vs MIMIX [EOL] comparison

IDERA and IBM are both solutions in the Database Development and Management category. Additionally, 88% of IDERA users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

IDERA ER/Studio

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88% willing to recommend

MIMIX [EOL]

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

IDERA ER/Studio

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (7th), Database Development and Management (7th)

MIMIX [EOL]

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Featured Reviews

reviewer2796111

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

Improved data modeling has reduced system footprint and strengthened finance workflows

I assess the benefits of IDERA ER_Studio's metadata management for my organization as not as good as Erwin's. Erwin's metadata management is better in how it handles data. There is a lot more user involvement in managing the metadata, primarily because in IDERA ER_Studio, the logical and physical models are separately defined in the same file, so you have to map them every single time. In Erwin, it has a unified structure, so if you make a change in the logical model, it automatically shows up in the physical model. You have to go through a couple of steps in the IDERA model to make sure everything has moved over. While that is not that inconvenient when you are actually doing development, as far as metadata management, that is prone to things getting dropped and missed. The collaboration tools in IDERA ER_Studio are adequate, but I think with Erwin, there is more of an opportunity for things to crash. Changes can be merged in IDERA more fluidly; however, the locking and sharing are a little bit more defined in Erwin. I think the learning curve for Erwin might be easier than IDERA ER_Studio, especially with connecting to different models and systems.

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Mohamed Ramses

IT Consultant at Ministry of Justice, Kuwait

A solution that offers excellent replication and easy implementation

We primarily use the solution for backup replication The most valuable feature is data replication. Everything about the solution is very simple, which makes it easy to use. The solution could use better dashboards for new users. They can look complicated until you get used to using the…

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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

"I think it's the best due to pricing and good overall support."

"Ease of use It looks good enough Ability to create HTML reports Ability to compare the model against the database"

"The interface is really simple to use and it allows me to pick and choose which tables I want to reverse engineer."

"We use it either to help an organization understand what data it has got or to design a database."

"It's much easier to develop the database structure and change it on the fly, rather than doing it manually in SQL Server itself. That saves time."

"This application does a lot of things, as do competitor products, but the main reason to go with this product was the ability to create many automations, where we can improve our work and our process."

"We use the solution to create data models which describe our company's data architecture"

"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."

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"For data replication purposes, we would migrate users from the live box to the backup machine in a matter of minutes, which was much quicker for the end user and required no restore from tapes."

"Knowing that our data is in multiple backup locations, provides us with piece of mind as far as a disaster recovery situation is concerned."

"No system downtime High Availability (HA)."

"It has helped us cut down process time and manpower."

"Customer Service: Excellent; their team is very knowledgeable and responsive."

"Provides high degree of comfort regarding High Availability (HA)."

"It's used in our new architecture, for production, HA/DR and it works with different data groups."

"It allowed us to have a stable, low maintenance, worry free disaster recovery solution that we can present to our management and our clients."

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Cons

"The number of options can be overwhelming at times. That is not necessarily a bad thing but for a newbie, it can be daunting."

"It would be helpful if they could create a generic JSON database type, as a target database, rather than a specific one like Mongo."

"Diagram versioning is not very intuitive Data Dictionary Bindings is not very intuitive"

"Tech support hasn't been as good lately as it was in the past. It is down to average."

"We did have a big issue when we upgraded to the 2016 version. The Team Server portion never did quite install correctly, and/or the database was corrupted, and we never figured it out."

"The model diagram becomes very clumsy when you save it on the team server and the models are very big."

"There was no specific mention of areas needing improvement."

"The screens are a bit outdated. They could use a new look and feel."

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"Replication errors need to be resolved."

"Monitoring tools can be improved but are very useful already."

"The solution could use better dashboards for new users. They can look complicated until you get used to using the solution."

"Could make it easier to fix object errors."

"I think that there should be a converged effort with IBM for faster remote journal entry reads when the remote journal is in "fire mode"."

"The version we're using is not portal ready."

"The systems overheads need improvement."

"The product dashboard that comes with the product could use some work."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am currently using the trial version, but this solution is definitely worth considering for the price point."

"Pricing is on point, but do your due diligence - not every developer needs the tool."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is bad and ten is good, I would rate the licensing cost as a seven or eight. It's not too expensive for us."

"I feel the product's pricing is a good value."

"I use the product's trial version."

"As an individual user, the renewal is a little costly."

"The setup cost may have been around $1500 to $2000."

"The process of licensing could be much simpler, from our experience."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Energy/Utilities Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Transportation Company

11%

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	25

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IDERA ER Studio?

In terms of pricing, ER/Studio is slightly more expensive compared to Erwin, by about five to ten percent.

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What is your primary use case for IDERA ER Studio?

I work in the finance industry, and the use cases for this product are very similar to what I mentioned previously when I discussed being in industrial management. It is simply a different product.

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What advice do you have for others considering IDERA ER Studio?

I have not used IDERA ER_Studio's impact analysis tools, so I really could not judge that regarding mitigating database risks for security. I am not on the end as far as the pricing, as this is wha...

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Also Known As

IDERA ER Studio, ER/Studio, ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition

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Overview

IDERA ER/Studio is a powerful suite for business-driven data modeling that enables companies to create an enterprise architecture foundation for data governance. With round-trip support for multiple database platforms, data architects have the power to reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases easily from diverse platforms. Data professionals can easily capture and share models, metadata, data sources, and glossaries across the organization for improved alignment between the organization and Information Technology. Organizational stakeholders can take part in the metadata definition workflow and access information on models and metadata at the right level for their needs.

Unlike its competition, it provides the broadest range of data platform support, industry-leading enterprise-level capabilities, visual data lineage and flow modeling, full dimensional modeling for data warehousing and business intelligence, and business data objects to bridge the gap between developers and data architects. It also provides a complete solution for enterprise architecture and data governance, extensive model change management, unique incorporation of true enterprise data dictionaries, unique linking of constructs across models, integrated visual data lineage import, and integrated data and business process modeling.

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Complete, Scalable HA/DR Protection for IBM i

What's New in MIMIX Availability 8.0?Today’s business environment demands continuous availability no matter what. Thousands of companies worldwide – from small businesses to global enterprises – count on MIMIX Availability to keep their data safe and their operations running smoothly. MIMIX Availability is the trusted industry leader in IBM i high availability and disaster recovery, protecting businesses from catastrophic events, server or storage failure, human error and even downtime normally associated with routine maintenance, queries, reports or backups.

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Sample Customers

Newmont Mining, Entrust, Accolade, TalkTalk, Catalina, Protective Life, NTT Data, dir systèmes, Microsoft; American Express, Astellas Pharma, AstraZeneca, Coriant, Fedex, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, Prudential, Wells Fargo

ACG Automotive, Autoliv, Takataês Manufacturing, AMPORTS, Faurecia, Unipres, Wheeler Machinery Company, PennEngineering, Parsons Corporation, Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Ltd. India, Amway India

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