We performed a comparison between CA Harvest Software Change Manager and Endevor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."
"Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles."
"The source integrity is the most valuable feature."
"It was an easy install. Since it was all set up, it pretty much runs itself now."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is customization and ease of use."
"Being able to compare versions is helpful."
"Having something that is out-of-the-box that you can customize to suit your organization's needs is huge."
"They've got plug-ins now to run it through Eclipse, they've got a lot of APIs, they handle UNIX files. I can't really think of any serious lack that they haven't addressed."
"It's very flexible. A new technology comes along, this can be multiplied to handle the new technology quite easily."
"The flexibility, because I know a lot of the competition pigeonholes you into definitions and character limitations, and Endevor is wide open."
"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"Security features can be improved."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
"If I had to comment on an area of improvement or something new in the next or future version, I would like to see AI-assisted coding and impact analysis for mainframes."
"There are a lot of screens in it. The process for moving out my other solutions, it could be more convenient. There are a lot of steps to go through and a lot of screens to go through to get it accomplished."
"Interfacing with some change control products that are not CA's, it's a little glitchy on the approvals of changes. It requires special needs for the users for approvals."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Learning the tool for the first time was extremely difficult, and it could be because of all the other processes we had around it. But knowing you can do these things in batch, you can do things in the foreground or online mode, and then these, you have to have a package for. There are these rules, and some of the concepts inside the tool are not clear, like what is the CCID? Why do I have to have one? What is that? And how is it used? As a developer, it's not important to me - I don't know what a CCID is, and I don't care - but apparently it's important to someone."
"The initial setup can be less complex and has room for improvement."
"One feature of Endevor is its Backout feature. If there is a problem, it can back out the executables. The only problem with that is that it will not back out the source in Endevor. For example, you can do a back out and it will back out the executable to the previous version, but it doesn't back out the source version in Endevor. It would make it much better if when you did a back out of Endevor, it would back out both the source and the executable and keep them in sync."
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CA Harvest Software Change Manager is ranked 8th in Software Configuration Management while Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews. CA Harvest Software Change Manager is rated 7.2, while Endevor is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of CA Harvest Software Change Manager writes "Powerful UDP functionality with a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". CA Harvest Software Change Manager is most compared with , whereas Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Engineering Workflow Management. See our CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs. Endevor report.
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