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As of December 2024, the mindshare of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest in the Data Governance category stands at 2.7%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Computer Software Company
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Financial Services Firm
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Government
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Non Profit
7%
Insurance Company
7%
Educational Organization
5%
Construction Company
4%
Retailer
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Manufacturing Company
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Real Estate/Law Firm
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Healthcare Company
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Logistics Company
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University
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Energy/Utilities Company
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Transportation Company
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Media Company
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Legal Firm
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Comms Service Provider
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Recreational Facilities/Services Company
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Performing Arts
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Wholesaler/Distributor
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Outsourcing Company
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Pharma/Biotech Company
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Hospitality Company
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Aerospace/Defense Firm
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RD
Data Architect at NAMM California
Verified user of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest
Jan 30, 2020
Enabled us to centralize a tremendous amount of data into a common standard, and uniform reporting has decreased report requests

Pros

"The biggest benefit with erwin DI is that I have a single source of truth that I can send anybody to. If anybody doesn't know the answer we can go back to it. Just having a central location of business rules is good."

Cons

"The fact that I sometimes have to go in and out of different applications, even though it's all part of the whole erwin suite, perhaps means it could be architected a little bit better. I think they do have some ideas for improvements there. "
PeerSpot user
Senior Director at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest
Aug 4, 2022
Product discussed: 11
Gives a visual representation of how the data flows from tables to the metrics and has a big impact in terms of the transparency and understanding of data

Pros

"Being able to capture different business metrics and organize them in different catalogs is most valuable. We can organize these metrics into sales-related metrics, customer-related metrics, supply chain-related metrics, etc. "

Cons

"There may be some opportunities for improvement in terms of the user interface to make it a little bit more intuitive. They have made some good progress. Originally, when we started, we were on version 9 or 10. Over the last couple of releases, I've seen some improvements that they have made, but there might be a few other additional areas in UI where they can make some enhancements."
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Advisor Application Architect at CPS Energy
Verified user of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest
Oct 5, 2022
Product discussed: 10.1
The solution provides more profound insights into legacy data movements, lineages, and definitions in the short term.

Pros

"Data Intelligence has provided more profound insights into legacy data movements, lineages, and definitions in the short term. We have linked three critical layers of data, providing us with an end-to-end lineage at the column level. "

Cons

"The integration with various metadata sources, including erwin Data Modeler, isn't smooth in the current version. It took some experimentation to get things working. We hope this is improved in the newer version. The initial version we used felt awkward because Erwin implemented features from other companies into their offering. "
TH
Architecture Sr. Manager, Data Design & Metadata Mgmt at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest
Oct 28, 2020
Product discussed: 10.1
We always know where our data and metadata are, versus having to spend weeks hunting down information

Pros

"The data management is, obviously, key in understanding where the data is and what the data is. And the governance can be done at multiple levels. You have the governance of the code sets versus the governance of the business terms and the definitions of those business terms. You have the governance of the business data models and how those business data models are driving the physical implementation of the actual databases. And, of course, you have the governance of the mapping to make sure that source-to-target mapping is done and is being shared across the company."

Cons

"The metadata ingestion is very nice because of the ability to automate it. It would be nice to be able to do this ingestion, or set it up, from one place, instead of having to set it up separately for every data asset that is ingested."
SA
Sr. Manager, Data Governance at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest
Feb 13, 2020
Product discussed: 9.3
Lets me have a full library of physical data or logical data sets to publish out through the portal that the business can use for self-service

Pros

"They have just the most marvelous reports called mind maps, where whatever you are focused on sits in the middle. They have this wonderful graphic spiderweb that spreads out from there where you can see this thing mapped to other logical bits or physical bits and who's the steward of it. It's very cool and available to your business teams through a portal. "

Cons

"There are a lot of little things like moving between read screens and edit screens. Those little human interface type of programming pieces will need to mature a bit to make it easier to get to where you want to go to put the stuff in."
TZ
Analyst at Roche
Verified user of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest
Jun 5, 2023
It allows us to automate repetitive tasks and standardize our processes

Pros

"Data Intelligence allows us to automate multiple tasks we had previously done manually, such as restructuring the metadata for our purposes, setting up ETL flows, and defining the data tables we create. It also enables us to standardize our approach and our technical processes. "

Cons

"Everything about Data Intelligence is complex. Though we've used the tool for five years, we're still only using about 30 to 40 percent of its capabilities. It would be helpful if we could customize and simplify the user interface because there are so many redundant things."
PeerSpot user
Works at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Verified user of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest
Feb 1, 2023
Enables fast delivery of data pipelines, is easy to install, and requires minimal maintenance

Pros

"The biggest impact for us is that erwin generates DDL extremely quickly. We're able to pull in metadata, map it to a target, generate DDL to create the tables, and generate SSIS packages. Previously, especially going back 10 to 15 years ago, hundreds of hours had to be spent to manually perform these tasks. This solution completely automates it and gets it 90% done. We can then pass it off to a developer to create the items in SSIS."

Cons

"It's a little bit clunky. I think a lot of these features were bolted on, and they don't necessarily transition smoothly in the interface. I would like to see a little more cohesion."
PeerSpot user
Senior Solution Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest
Jun 13, 2023
It creates a single source of truth for all of our metadata

Pros

"Data Intelligence creates a single source of truth for all of our metadata. This solution is better for data warehousing, but the metadata features speed up our development work. It's easy to create and manage mappings because we can export them to Informatica and pick up the work where we left off. "

Cons

"The versioning can sometimes be confusing because we use the publishing feature for the mapping. Technical analysts sometimes have two versions, and they should know that the public version is the correct one. "