IDERA ER/Studio vs QualiWare X comparison

IDERA and QualiWare are both solutions in the Enterprise Architecture Management category. IDERA is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.6, while QualiWare is ranked #21. IDERA holds a 3.5% mindshare in AM, compared to QualiWare’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of IDERA users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of QualiWare users who would recommend it.

IDERA ER/Studio

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88% willing to recommend

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

QualiWare X and IDERA ER/Studio are competing products in the enterprise architecture and data modeling space. Customers are generally more satisfied with IDERA ER/Studio due to its comprehensive feature set and superior support.

Features: QualiWare X offers robust modeling capabilities, enhanced collaboration, and integration features. IDERA ER/Studio provides advanced data modeling, user-friendly visualization tools, and superior metadata management. IDERA ER/Studio's emphasis on data accuracy and metadata management gives it an edge in feature richness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: QualiWare X supports an intuitive deployment with timely customer service. IDERA ER/Studio offers straightforward setup and excels with extensive and responsive support, ensuring a smooth deployment process. IDERA ER/Studio's customer service is deemed more reliable.

Pricing and ROI: QualiWare X is accessible in terms of setup cost, providing a favorable initial investment with reasonable ROI. IDERA ER/Studio requires a higher financial commitment, justified by its features that drive long-term ROI. The choice depends on budget constraints versus the demand for extensive features and support.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

IDERA ER/Studio

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (8th)

QualiWare X

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

21st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (46th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Enterprise Architecture Management category, the mindshare of IDERA ER/Studio is 3.5%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QualiWare X is 1.6%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Architecture Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IDERA ER/Studio	3.5%
QualiWare X	1.6%
Other	94.9%

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reviewer3261598

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

Enables large teams to collaborate seamlessly with comprehensive integration and strong versioning support

ER/Studio is excellent for large teams; it scales well to teams of over one hundred plus people. It has strong versioning support and can even integrate with third-party versioning tools like GitHub. It has a rich set of integration options with various products in the market. The tool also supports both logical and physical data modeling, and it has out-of-the-box support for data vault methodologies. ER/Studio allows the enforcement of naming conventions, which is beneficial for maintaining standards within the organization.

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Gavin Bérubé

Enterprise Architect at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Works as a reference for architecture but not very intuitive

We use the solution as a reference for architecture so that we can connect business data applications. The tool helps us to know how these applications should be built. We use it mainly as reference material. I like the solution's traceability. The solution is not easy and intuitive to use. I…

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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

"Data lineage tracking: It allows us to identify upstream and downstream systems using data."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is generating DDL (data definition language)."

"It's easy to model and has a user-friendly interface. I like the team portal because, once we upload, the entire team can see the model."

"Straightforward setup."

"It does the job."

"One of the valuable features is inheritance when joining tables. When setting up RI and domains and rules, ER/Studio does a lot of the grunt, boilerplate code that would otherwise have to be hand-coded."

"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."

"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."

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"I like the solution's traceability."

Cons

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

"Sometimes our version is a little unstable. But I think this problem occurs because our version is old."

"The solution is not so strong at creating modeling views and database views."

"One limitation I have found in ER/Studio is that when you want to make some changes to the table definitions, you have to go item by item. You cannot do it globally. Another issue concerns defining the foreign keys between the different tables. It is a little more tedious in the ER/Studio than in ERrwin. With ERwin it is direct."

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

"The solution's reporting could be improved because the report writer is terrible."

"The solution could be sped up, as it is a little slow (e.g., when it's doing its database compare)."

"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."

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"The solution is not easy and intuitive to use. I would also like the software to have a reference metamodel that can guide the modeling."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is priced fairly. It's around the same as erwin and other competitors' costs."

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

"At my previous company using ER/Studio, a database compare took four hours before using the product and 15 minutes after using the product."

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

"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."

"The product is pricey."

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

"Pricing is expensive and on the higher-end."

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"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten since it's pretty expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Energy/Utilities Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

30%

Computer Software Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Media Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	25

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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 have been working with data modeling tools. Personally, I have been working with Erwin for many years now. ER/Studio is something I am currently trying to evaluate for acquiring it for our organi...

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

I would strongly recommend ER/Studio for large teams. Erwin is a very stable product, but for smaller teams, it's okay. If I had to rate ER/Studio, I would give it nine out of ten because the absen...

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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.

IDERA

QualiWare enables positive change by providing tools and methods that ensure coherency, consensus and consistency, and we support the agile and innovative company in handling complex knowledge, maintained by multiple persons with different backgrounds, in a continuous process.

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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

Emiliambiente, OLI, Galletti, Hiref, Bugatti, Argelli, Culligan Italiana, Sal, Stefal Cablaggi, BrainBee Automotive, Varvel, Campagnola, Favini, G.F., Gruppo ROLD

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