erwin Evolve by Quest Reviews

erwin Evolve by Quest has good options for generating the code. We can efficiently deploy business models into the databases and generate SQL scripts.

erwin Evolve by Quest could have additional features to manage the architecture of enterprises and businesses.

It is a stable application.

They provide good technical documentation.

We have used another enterprise architecture product before. In comparison, erwin has the best features for interface, graphics, and integration with third-party applications.

The initial setup process is straightforward.

I rate erwin Evolve by Quest a nine out of ten.

Evolve is like a tank. You can do whatever you want with the solution, but you need to customize it. I think that it's not very aligned with the framework for enterprise architecture. MEGA is focused on these enterprise architectures, but it's only for that. With Evolve, you can do everything you want with professional services.

They need to develop Evolve's user experience. For example, MEGA has a useful client view that helps with impact analysis. MEGA provides information about the processes, services, infrastructure, and portfolio of applications in one central view. It lets you see the periphery and relationships among components. This view is impressive, and Evolve doesn't have it.

I've used Evolve for almost eight years. There have been some changes in my team. Half of my team manages Evolve, and the other half manages Casewise. There has been a fusion of the systems in Mexico and the United States. They use MEGA in the United States, so they replaced Evolve with MEGA. However, they are still using Evolve in some areas.

We haven't had any problems with the tools because we integrated and built different dashboards. We haven't had issues because we made some changes in the coding.

You could scale Evolve. 

The people who know how to manage Evolve are Indian, but the company is based in London, so sometimes it can take a while to get an answer due to the time differences. MEGA has local support here in Mexico, so they respond faster.

Setting up Evolve is complex, so you should get training and certification. 

I rate erwin Evolve seven out of 10. Few clients looking are going with Evolve these days because I don't think they even appear on Gartner's Magic Quadrant. They're no longer in the leading sector. Other solutions like MEGA HOPEX are better than erwin.

I am consulting, providing architecture and data management consulting to my clients. I'm a partner of the erwin data management and data modeling product.

Our customers are small or medium enterprise companies.

It's a customizable tool that allows you to do a lot of architectural modeling for customers. You can use different kinds of diagrams to represent the architecture setting.

To a certain extent it's too easy to customize. If it had fewer features to model all kinds of architecture, it would be less complicated. Today's world values agile architecture, which focuses on a few different viewpoints or views of architecture work, like the business capability for example. If a portal can focus on this and have an easy user interface for the end-user, that would be better.

In the future, I would like to see integration with Archimate from The Open Group so that they can build business capability maps easily.

I have been representing erwin and selling this product for two years, and I went through their presale certificate test. I am not a user. I am a presale representative and I demonstrate the product.

The solution is stable because it's a product of many years of history.

The scalability is quite good, and it's normally given from the support team in India. 

The implementation process is too complicated.

I think erwin is quite expensive. I have difficulty selling the portal, in fact.

I have been using ArchiMate for a while. That's an open source, free architecture tool. It's quite simple. It's good enough for medium or small enterprises.

I would rate this solution 6 out of 10. 

Evolve is good for a big enterprise. If you have a lot of tools like governing tools and the architectural policy and rules that are understood by your teams, then it will be a good product for a big enterprise.

I've primarily used the solution for conceptual logical modeling.

The ability to share and collaborate on the solution is its most valuable feature.

The solution needs to focus on allowing for more integrations.

The solution is stable.

We've had no issues surrounding the scalability of the solution. We have about eight users on it right now. We don't plan to increase usage at this time.

Technical support is good.

We didn't previously use a different solution.

We had an integrator handle the initial setup.

We did not evaluate other products. We just like erwin, so we decided to go with it.

We are currently considering the public cloud deployment model using AWS.

It's a good product. I would rate it eight out of ten.

Our primary use case for this solution is as data modeling tool. 

Enterprise Architecture improved our organization by giving clarity over the data that is available.

I would like to see an improvement in the output of the solution.

The solution is very stable.

The scalability is good, but so far we haven't used the shared version. We use the single stand-alone version. We have only three users, and they are all data architects. We don't use any other staff for maintenance. We also don't plan to increase our usage soon.

The technical support is good.

The initial setup was really straightforward and the deployment was done within one day. 

My advice to others would be to have this solution on your shortlist if you are looking for a data modeling tool. I will rate it an eight out of ten. I would like to some additional features, like data lineage, included in the next release to make it a ten out of ten. 

Our primary use case is to develop industry models to support our consulting business.

This solution helped to jump start our EA (Enterprise architecture) and BPM practices.

The most valuable features for us are impact analysis, where I can easily visualize the impact of change.

I feel that the UML drawing capability needs to be improved. 

EA Agile only support ArchiMate and BPMN drawing. It does not support UML notation and can only import UML drawing prepared in other platform as graph object. It'll be much better if it can suppory natively all UML notation and standard.

Data modeling for data warehousing solutions, including forward engineering and reverse engineering for OLTP and dimensional models.

Creating and publishing DW models.

Forward and reverse engineering.

Business process modelling. 

• Overall model usability
• Model formatting and layout
• Logical model creation
• Physical model creation
• Forward-engineering/DDL creation
• Standards creation and reuse
• Model and database comparison tools
• Metadata interchange with other tools
• Support for a broad range of data sources from relational to big data to the Cloud.

The ERwin tool helped to reduce the rate of design and deployment errors and
increased the ease of validation. It also assists our customers in deploying our large data models/semantic models.

There might be improvement required to better support some of the MPP databases for non-relational data structures and NoSQL databases.

More than five years.

Did not encounter any issues.

No issues.

No issues.

Customer Service:

Very good.

Technical Support:

Excellent.

No.

The ERwin setup is very simple.

The implementation was done in-house.

ERwin setup is very simple and straight.