Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
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2022-08-10T05:48:00Z
Aug 10, 2022
The licensing cost was very affordable at the time of purchase. It has since been taken over by erwin, then Quest. The tool has gotten a bit more costly, but they are adding more features very quickly.
Senior Director at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
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2021-05-16T04:21:00Z
May 16, 2021
Smart Data Connectors have some costs, and then there are user-based licenses. We spend roughly $150,000 per year on the solution. It is a yearly subscription license that basically includes the cost for Smart Data Connectors and user-based licenses. We have around 30 data stewards who maintain definitions, and then we have five IT users who basically maintain the overall solution. It is not a SaaS kind of operation, and there is an infrastructure cost to host this solution, which is our regular AWS hosting cost.
Project Coordinator at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
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2023-07-07T20:05:00Z
Jul 7, 2023
erwin was at a good price. The federal government wouldn't buy something if the pricing wasn't good. We have to use FedRAMP pricing, so I'm not sure about what erwin's pricing would be "out in the wild," for a regular company. But they do work with you on the price.
erwin's license is about average. You have to pay extra for smart connectors if you need to add data sources that won't work with the standard connector.
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Works at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
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2022-12-18T06:56:00Z
Dec 18, 2022
The price is reasonable and competitive. When you get into forward and reverse-engineering, the cost could go up. However, if you are a large organization, you would probably be able to access different packages. If, however, you don't need forward and reverse-engineering, then the price is relatively cheap.
Tools like this generally have a low or no cost for "read only" usage. The licensing required to actively update metadata is much more expensive, but we only needed three licenses. Two licenses would likely suffice for most organizations.
Business Intelligence BA at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
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2021-05-24T17:09:00Z
May 24, 2021
We operate on a yearly subscription and because it is an enterprise license we only have one. It is not dependent on the number of users. This product is not expensive compared to the other ones on the market. We did not buy the full DI, so the Business Glossary costs us extra. As such, we receive two bills from erwin every year.
The financial model will be different. There is the cost of this software but there are offsetting accelerations through the automation as well as cost and efficiency. Don't be afraid of automation and don't get hung up on losing revenue due to automation. What I've seen is that some financial managers resist automation that results in a reduction of labor revenue. These reductions are ideally overcome through additional engagements, improve customer satisfaction, quality, add-on support, whatever the case, automation is a good thing. The fact that this solution can be hosted in the cloud does not affect the total cost of ownership. The licensing cost is the same whether I use the cloud or on-prem. It may be the partner agreements but we do get some discounts and there's some negotiated pricing already in place with our companies. I didn't see that there was a difference in cloud license versus on-premise.
The solution is aggressively priced. We can compete with most of them. It is up to erwin and its pricing strategy, but if the Smart Connectors—at least a few of them which are really important—can be embedded into the product, that would be great. But overall, I feel the pricing is correct right now.
Architecture Sr. Manager, Data Design & Metadata Mgmt at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-08-04T07:26:00Z
Aug 4, 2020
The one thing that you want to make sure of is that you have enough licenses to cover the people who will be administering the tool, as well as the people who are using the tool. You have to know not only the people who will be using the tool but the teams that will be supporting it. That was something we did not know ahead of time: the number of support licenses that we would need.
Sr. Manager, Data Governance at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2020-01-30T07:55:00Z
Jan 30, 2020
You buy a seat license for your portal. We have 100 seats for the portal, then you buy just the development licenses for the people who are going to put the data in.
The whole suite, not just the DI but the modeling software, the harvester, Mapping Manager — everything we have — is about $100,000 a year for our renewals. That works out to each module being something like $8,000 to $10,000.
The erwin Data Intelligence Suite (erwin DI) combines data catalog and data literacy capabilities for greater awareness of and access to available data assets, guidance on their use, and guardrails to ensure data policies and best practices are followed. Automatically harvest, transform and feed metadata from a wide array of data sources, operational processes, business applications and data models into a central data catalog. Then make it accessible and understandable within context via...
The price is too high. We pay 41,000 Swiss francs for five users. I give the pricing a three out of ten.
The licensing cost was very affordable at the time of purchase. It has since been taken over by erwin, then Quest. The tool has gotten a bit more costly, but they are adding more features very quickly.
Smart Data Connectors have some costs, and then there are user-based licenses. We spend roughly $150,000 per year on the solution. It is a yearly subscription license that basically includes the cost for Smart Data Connectors and user-based licenses. We have around 30 data stewards who maintain definitions, and then we have five IT users who basically maintain the overall solution. It is not a SaaS kind of operation, and there is an infrastructure cost to host this solution, which is our regular AWS hosting cost.
The price is reasonable, and a subscription is required.
erwin was at a good price. The federal government wouldn't buy something if the pricing wasn't good. We have to use FedRAMP pricing, so I'm not sure about what erwin's pricing would be "out in the wild," for a regular company. But they do work with you on the price.
erwin's license is about average. You have to pay extra for smart connectors if you need to add data sources that won't work with the standard connector.
The price is reasonable and competitive. When you get into forward and reverse-engineering, the cost could go up. However, if you are a large organization, you would probably be able to access different packages. If, however, you don't need forward and reverse-engineering, then the price is relatively cheap.
Tools like this generally have a low or no cost for "read only" usage. The licensing required to actively update metadata is much more expensive, but we only needed three licenses. Two licenses would likely suffice for most organizations.
We operate on a yearly subscription and because it is an enterprise license we only have one. It is not dependent on the number of users. This product is not expensive compared to the other ones on the market. We did not buy the full DI, so the Business Glossary costs us extra. As such, we receive two bills from erwin every year.
The financial model will be different. There is the cost of this software but there are offsetting accelerations through the automation as well as cost and efficiency. Don't be afraid of automation and don't get hung up on losing revenue due to automation. What I've seen is that some financial managers resist automation that results in a reduction of labor revenue. These reductions are ideally overcome through additional engagements, improve customer satisfaction, quality, add-on support, whatever the case, automation is a good thing. The fact that this solution can be hosted in the cloud does not affect the total cost of ownership. The licensing cost is the same whether I use the cloud or on-prem. It may be the partner agreements but we do get some discounts and there's some negotiated pricing already in place with our companies. I didn't see that there was a difference in cloud license versus on-premise.
The solution is aggressively priced. We can compete with most of them. It is up to erwin and its pricing strategy, but if the Smart Connectors—at least a few of them which are really important—can be embedded into the product, that would be great. But overall, I feel the pricing is correct right now.
The one thing that you want to make sure of is that you have enough licenses to cover the people who will be administering the tool, as well as the people who are using the tool. You have to know not only the people who will be using the tool but the teams that will be supporting it. That was something we did not know ahead of time: the number of support licenses that we would need.
erwin is cheaper than other solutions and this should appeal to other buyers. It has a good price tag.
You buy a seat license for your portal. We have 100 seats for the portal, then you buy just the development licenses for the people who are going to put the data in.
The whole suite, not just the DI but the modeling software, the harvester, Mapping Manager — everything we have — is about $100,000 a year for our renewals. That works out to each module being something like $8,000 to $10,000.
The licensing cost is around $7,000 for user. This is an estimation. There is an additional fee for the server maintenance.