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 developers can very easily see what has changed on a particular piece of source code or a program, and others can look at that as well so they can coordinate their changes. It makes it much easier to promote a piece of code up to production."
"It standardizes the processing of all the development. Everything gets produced in a constant and consistent manner."
"We have been able to replicate entire SDLCs for new clients and have them loaded and ready to use Endevor in as little as one week. This was possible with the use of Endevor variables within the processors, so that a single processor was able to function for multiple systems across the entire SDLC."
"It puts all our source in one product. We know where to go to gather all our source code and which source is associated with which executable. It's a one-stop-shop, one place to go for everything."
"We backup people's source code for them."
"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."
"We can make it do pretty much whatever we want, depending on just how complicated we want it to be, as it is pretty flexible."
"Having something that is out-of-the-box that you can customize to suit your organization's needs is huge."
"Security features can be improved."
"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"Needs more audit capability when it comes to changes to settings that are made by administrators, as many of these are done through the panels and are therefore not logged as an action against a configuration item."
"The customer service and support team are not helpful."
"It is still kind of behind the times. It needs to catch up with all the millennials that want a distributed look and feel."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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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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