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erwin Evolve pros and cons

Vendor: Quest Software

3.9 out of 5

19 reviews
81% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Erwin Evolve provides versatile capabilities, including workgroup repository collection for data research, KPIs for corporate assets, forward and reverse engineering, and change impact analysis. Its design efficiency supports business models deployment, SQL script generation, and unique object configuration. However, enhancements in visualization for NoSQL, business process modeling, integration, real-time KPI insights, and case development for enhanced ER diagrams are needed to meet evolving tech buyer demands.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Workgroup Repository supports seamless cross-platform data model research and provides easy access to KPIs about corporate data assets.

erwin Evolve supports a wide range of data sources, from relational databases to big data and the Cloud.

Impact analysis is a highly valued feature, allowing users to easily visualize changes.

Parameterization allows for the fast publication of tables or charts onto websites.

The reverse engineering capability is notably useful for users.

CONS

erwin Evolve needs improved conditional visualization features for models and reports.

Support for MPP databases for non-relational and NoSQL data structures requires enhancement.

Integration capabilities with other tools and systems need significant development.

Real-time calculations and KPI tracking are demanded to enhance user experience.

erwin Evolve requires consolidation of product information to better clarify offerings and integrations.

erwin Evolve Pros review quotes

Director IT Architecture at QAD

Jun 22, 2023

One of the most valuable features is the website that sits on top of the database. There's a database of objects and how they are related, and you can make views and diagrams and visual elements out of that information on the website. The website is the part that is called Evolve and we use the Evolve Designer and publish the website out to our employees. They can click around and navigate and search, etc.

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SPM at Infosys

Jun 6, 2022

Evolve's reverse engineering ability is quite useful.

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Independent Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees

Oct 15, 2020

I really liked that it mapped out processes and was able to attach the data model to the appropriate process. You could map out the process, then when you got down to a specific couple of data elements, you could attach the table in the database that supported that process. You could connect it with erwin Data Modeler for that.

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MG

Senior Business Process Management Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 2, 2020

The feature that stands out for me is the ease of configuring objects and the screens to show them. It's really easy to add a new type of object in this reference. Creating a new type of object, using it, and evolving it a little bit in terms of what we can document about it are the main features that made us decide to use this provider.

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James McPherson

IT Director at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 13, 2020

There is a model behind it. It's really nice that the Evolve front-end, as it builds a website, keeps those relationships in mind. You can even go to a procedure and see all the applications that are related to it. Then you can go into that application and see all the standard operating procedures that that application is a part of. It's just very connected.

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reviewer1310625

Enterprise Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 15, 2020

I have not seen capabilities for web-sharing and interaction with the architecture from any other supplier. It's a great capability...

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reviewer1273548

Global Enterprise Architect and Catalogue of Business Solutions Manager at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

Jan 27, 2020

We use erwin Evolve to publish to the website. This allows us to enable publishing our website using parameterisation features. In a very fast, quick way, we can publish a table or chart onto a website.

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ETL Developer at INGENIERIA 21 SAS

Sep 29, 2023

We can efficiently deploy business models into the databases and generate SQL scripts.

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reviewer1158399

Director of the Division Consulting Business Process and Director of Enterprise Architecture at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Jan 17, 2022

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.

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Chief Consultant at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

Dec 24, 2021

You can use different kinds of diagrams to represent the architecture setting.

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erwin Evolve Cons review quotes

Director IT Architecture at QAD

Jun 22, 2023

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.

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SPM at Infosys

Jun 6, 2022

Evolve is primarily focused on the entity's licenses diagrams, but it would be nice if erwin could integrate case development, so that it shows the ER diagram plus certain inputs on the use cases and how the data is used. That deviates somewhat from the overall scope, so maybe they could call it a different product.

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Independent Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees

Oct 15, 2020

It could have had a more streamlined navigation. It seemed that when you went to the explorer panel, there were just so many different ways of doing the work that I could not remember, "How did I do this? How did I get to that point in that model to get back to it?" If I wanted to build a new one, where do I start? It just seemed like there was such a smorgasbord of ways of doing it that it was just overwhelming.

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MG

Senior Business Process Management Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 2, 2020

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.

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James McPherson

IT Director at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 13, 2020

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.

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reviewer1310625

Enterprise Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 15, 2020

With the Excel importing, the "up to date" part is the challenge. If we had a real-time integration, we could keep things up to date for whatever kinds of change points we had. With Excel, it is more that you have to export from one system then import it to another, so it's better for data that doesn't change that often.

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reviewer1273548

Global Enterprise Architect and Catalogue of Business Solutions Manager at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

Jan 27, 2020

The way that we are using it for application management, we have several KPIs. We want to follow and monitor them regarding a number of solutions. We cannot calculate this today. We would like real-time calculations along with the KPIs in order to improve the user experience. We would like the tool to be able to display this, not only as signals, but as charts.

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ETL Developer at INGENIERIA 21 SAS

Sep 29, 2023

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

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reviewer1158399

Director of the Division Consulting Business Process and Director of Enterprise Architecture at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Jan 17, 2022

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.

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Chief Consultant at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

Dec 24, 2021

If it had fewer features to model all kinds of architecture, it would be less complicated.

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