Sr Data Integration Modeler at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-10-07T07:04:40Z
Oct 7, 2020
Using this product has improved the way we maintain our models because they have a place where we can keep all of them, and they can be viewed using the web interface.
Database Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2018-11-28T08:48:00Z
Nov 28, 2018
The data modeling module is important to me because I am a database developer and designer... It's very fast, reliable, up-to-date, so easy to use, smooth.
DBA at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2018-08-09T06:47:00Z
Aug 9, 2018
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.
IT Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2018-08-07T13:21:00Z
Aug 7, 2018
We found a lot of duplication, a lot of non-conformity in the way our databases were designed. By identifying these situations, we're able to go back in and try to create a more standardized solution.
Database Designer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2018-08-05T06:48:00Z
Aug 5, 2018
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.
IDERA ER/Studio is a powerful suite for business-driven data modeling that enables companies to create an enterprise architecture foundation for data governance. With round-trip support for multiple database platforms, data architects have the power to reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases easily from diverse platforms. Data professionals can easily capture and share models, metadata, data sources, and glossaries across the organization for improved alignment between the...
The tool is simple to use.
The data modeling and reverse engineering features are most important to us.
It does the job.
Using this product has improved the way we maintain our models because they have a place where we can keep all of them, and they can be viewed using the web interface.
The interface is really simple to use and it allows me to pick and choose which tables I want to reverse engineer.
Straightforward setup.
The data modeling module is important to me because I am a database developer and designer... It's very fast, reliable, up-to-date, so easy to use, smooth.
It's much easier to develop the database structure and change it on the fly, rather than doing it manually in SQL Server itself. That saves time.
We use the solution to create data models which describe our company's data architecture
The most valuable features are... those that enable me to represent the database to the development community and the business users.
Developing new dimensional models; for the data we're hosting, dimensional modeling is more useful.
The reverse engineering is the most important feature.
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.
We found a lot of duplication, a lot of non-conformity in the way our databases were designed. By identifying these situations, we're able to go back in and try to create a more standardized solution.
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.
It's easy to model and has a user-friendly interface.
I like the team portal because, once we upload, the entire team can see the model.