Advance top 2025 data initiatives with analyst firm-recognized erwin by Quest

Companies are leaning into delivering on data intelligence and governance initiatives in 2025 according to our recent State of Data Intelligence research. From increasing the strategic use of high-value data across organizations to advancing data and governance efforts to an AI-ready state, expectations are high for the contributions of data professionals in the year ahead.

Thankfully, technology can help. Data intelligence software is continuously evolving to enable organizations to efficiently and effectively advance new data initiatives. Whether it’s delivering a self-service data marketplace to make it easier to find and access trusted data across your business or increasing data quality visibility to better assess data fitness and ensure reliability of critical data sources, data intelligence software has a role to play.

With a variety of providers and offerings addressing data intelligence and governance needs, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed in selecting the right solution for your enterprise. Given their bird’s eye view of the market and a consistent focus, industry analysts can be a valuable source of information as you evaluate best options for your priorities and data intelligence and governance roadmap ahead.

Industry analysts provide valuable insights for both software evaluators and technology providers

If you’re new to the data intelligence and governance analyst community, there are many respected research firms providing insights through different lenses tackling a variety of data intelligence use cases. IDC, BARC, and Gartner are just a few analyst firms producing annual or bi-annual market assessments for their research subscribers in software categories ranging from data intelligence platforms and data catalogs to data governance, data quality, metadata management and more.

erwin^® by Quest^® participates in many of these assessments and routinely briefs research analysts on the latest capabilities within erwin Data Intelligence and erwin Data Modeler, as well as our plans for the future that will support key data initiatives. These conversations with analysts also serve as valuable input for our teams as we evaluate product roadmap priorities and launch other market-oriented programs to best serve our customers.

So, what are industry analyst firms saying about erwin by Quest?

erwin by Quest has been included in a number of analyst research assessments this past year. Below are quotes about erwin and our offerings from a few key analysts.

IDC

“erwin Data Intelligence by Quest Software empowers businesses to manage and develop data pipelines efficiently, ensuring faster insights and robust data protection. The platform integrates data cataloging, quality, literacy, and marketplace capabilities, facilitating data discovery, data and AI governance, and automated value scoring. It offers extensive data connectors, automated workflows, and powerful impact analysis, facilitating reliable data for AI and analytics. When paired with erwin Data Modeler, users can accelerate data product delivery with model-to-marketplace capabilities to govern and deliver high-value, trusted data across their enterprise.” 

• IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51467224, November 2024) [Read the IDC Report excerpt where Quest Software is named as a Leader]

BARC

“The erwin Data Intelligence by Quest suite is a comprehensive solution for enterprise data management. This integrated suite, combining data catalog, data quality, data literacy and data marketplace capabilities, equips organizations with tools for discovering, understanding, governing, scoring and sharing trusted data across their enterprises.

The recent addition of the Data Marketplace is a significant development, offering a user-friendly platform for leveraging data. This marketplace enhances data accessibility for business users through a scoring system and comparison features, fostering a more efficient discovery and decision-making process.”

• BARC Score Data Intelligence Platforms 2024 [Read the BARC report where Quest is named as a Market Leader]

Forrester

“Quest Software has strong capabilities in scanning sources, discovering data, classification, policy and risk management, automated anomaly detection, and workflow orchestration. Its data quality solution is on the brink of excellence, pending the introduction of AI-assisted rule creation and enhanced recommendations.”

• The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Catalogs, Q3 2024 [The research is available for purchase and to Forrester subscribers. Quest is positioned as a contender.]

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Gartner® recognitions

erwin by Quest (Quest Software) has been recognized in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data & Analytics Governance Platforms and included in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Metadata Management Solutions. These reports are available for Gartner subscribers at www.gartner.com.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, By Guido De Simoni, Anurag Raj, Melody Chien, Stephen Kennedy, Published 7 January 2025

Gartner, Market Guide for Metadata Management Solutions, By Mark Beyer, Guido De Simoni, 3 September 2024

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Peer Reviews

Gartner Peer Insights is another useful forum provided by Gartner to read client reviews. These two reviews are an example:

Full customer review can be found here.

Full customer review can be found here.

Quadrant Knowledge Solutions

“Customers turn to erwin Data Intelligence to gain the enterprise data landscape visibility needed for data governance success. A library of nearly 120 erwin Data Connectors combined with strong automated metadata management, data cataloging, data mapping, data quality and data lineage capabilities help establish a strong foundation. Business-focused capabilities such as the erwin Data Marketplace help organizations to not only tackle the defensive aspects of data governance, but also the governance-driven aspects of data literacy and data enablement needed to ensure that data consumers can find and leverage high-value, trusted data.”

• 2024 QKS Data Governance Solutions Spark Matrix [Read the Spark Matrix report where erwin by Quest is named as a Leader]

“The erwin Data Intelligence by Quest platform stands out as a comprehensive solution catering to the needs of IT, data governance teams and business users alike. With its robust technical qualities, including automated metadata harvesting through an extensive range of data connectors, robust data lineage tracking, impact analysis, and integrated data quality assessment, it provides a holistic approach to data management. Notably, erwin Data Intelligence enables organizations to embrace the concept of ‘data as a product’, seamlessly integrating with erwin Data Modeler to facilitate end-to-end data product lifecycle management.”

• 2024 QKS Metadata Management Solutions Spark Matrix [Read the Spark Matrix report where erwin by Quest is named as a Leader]

Bloor Group

“Data governance is more than just populating a standalone data catalog and business glossary. The governance process extends to data quality and reliability and is not a one-off exercise but something that requires constant monitoring. erwin has long been the de-facto standard for data modelling, and so many customers may wish to use an integrated suite of tools, from modelling through to data quality through to catalog, data lineage and marketplace, rather than dealing with a series of tools from different vendors and having to interface these together.”

• Andy Hayler, Bloor Research [Read the Bloor Research review where erwin Data Intelligence is recognized with a 2024 Gold Mutable Award]

Interested in keeping up with the latest analyst coverage of erwin by Quest?

You can find complimentary analyst reports licensed by Quest housed within our erwin.com Resources section, or for full coverage, subscribe directly with the research firms listed above. Following industry analysts who’ve contributed to some of the reports listed above on LinkedIn is also a great way to stay connected and learn from continued research efforts.

We’re thankful to be recognized by a vibrant, dedicated analyst community that both influences the success of the solutions we deliver to market and provides valuable context for organizations to more easily identify the solutions that may best fit their data intelligence and governance priorities and initiatives.