We performed a comparison between IDERA ER/Studio and Informatica Persistent Data Masking based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."It does the job."
"We have a database design group of about 15 people. The Repository enables multiple people to work on the same model at the same time. We have fully integrated models, so we have one model for the enterprise data warehouse, one model for MDM, with a lot of sub-models in these things. People work on different parts of the model at different times. So the repository enables us to share the models, and keep track of what everybody is working on."
"The tool is simple to use."
"We have been able to quickly create models for our enterprise-wide databases, even when some of them are third-party databases."
"The data modeling and reverse engineering features are most important to us."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is generating DDL (data definition language)."
"Valuable features include the ability to visually represent what the database tables are going to look like and their relationships. Also, the ability to document the definitions of the tables and the columns that are in a table so that we can communicate what the data is and how it should be used."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is data discovery. This is the most exciting feature for all of the banks."
"Informatica is user-friendly, stable, and scalable. These three aspects are the most valuable for us. If we can make it work well with the CRM, we can continue or try again this year to complete that part of the project. I am confident that this kind of solution is what we need because we have a third-party resource that works in the development."
"The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking."
"Informatica provides a comprehensive solution for on-the-fly or real-time data masking."
"Informatica Persistent Data Masking can mask production data for different users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access sensitive information."
"We would always like to see Repository performance improve, checking in and checking out."
"The only thing I had an issue with was licensing, and the support was very good."
"This solution needs more precise documentation."
"The visual presentation is a little too colorful and seems that it is dumbed down."
"when there are some links to the external databases, if this database is not structured it is not uploaded. It gives me errors and I cannot see the view that was created on this structure and I cannot change those views, even manually. It skips the views. I have to ignore those views. I cannot re-upload them because it gives me an error."
"I would like to see better documentation/help for the Data Architect tool. Creation of tutorials would be nice, as there are some features which are not as clearly defined as they should be."
"When building the relationships there should be a little more flexibility."
"The model diagram because very clumsy when you save it on the team server and the models are very big."
"The data discovery isn't that good yet for Salesforce. We have another tool that we use for this. It may be a problem because Salesforce on the cloud."
"Informatica should simplify the rules for setting classifications and user access management permissions. It's too complex to define, configure, and make work."
"Once the data is masked, we won't be able to reverse it back to its original value."
"Informatica's support understands the solution, but they lack the experience we need for our use case. That was one thing that we prioritized when we started searching for this kind of solution."
"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking."
IDERA ER/Studio is ranked 10th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 34 reviews while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is ranked 10th in Data Masking with 5 reviews. IDERA ER/Studio is rated 8.4, while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IDERA ER/Studio writes "The solution has important reverse engineering features, but it needs a single sign-on feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Persistent Data Masking writes "Enables secure data protection during testing and controlled access to sensitive information". IDERA ER/Studio is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, SAP PowerDesigner, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Toad Data Modeler and erwin Evolve by Quest, whereas Informatica Persistent Data Masking is most compared with Delphix, IBM InfoSphere Optim, Protegrity Data Security and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection.
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