We performed a comparison between Endevor and IBM Engineering Workflow Management 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."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."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is customization and ease of use."
"It provides secure, controlled access to source management."
"It's very flexible. A new technology comes along, this can be multiplied to handle the new technology quite easily."
"The tools are specifically designed for mainframe environments, providing features tailored to the unique requirements of the systems, ensuring there are no mistakes."
"In the last year or so, we had a need to start using a CICS web services, and mesh them in with some distributed functions on an enterprise service bus. We put the web services into Endevor and we manage that way now."
"The source management is excellent."
"Having something that is out-of-the-box that you can customize to suit your organization's needs is huge."
"Good for managing stories, sprints, hydration and releases."
"The most valuable features of the solution are highly customizable reports and visibility for all the higher management."
"We can track the status of test cases (passed or saved) in a single view. Based on releases and other attributes, we generate various reports and extract metrics from the data."
"Work distribution among team members and accountability for completion with a clearer picture."
"Traceability reporting is inbuilt and includes all your requirements."
"All of the features work together to provide a powerful holistic solution - from the dashboard all the way through to security."
"Agile templates give us a standard methodology for every Agile project. Also, the ability to create our own object types and linkages to features/epics allows us to enhance the verification of feature readiness."
"I would like to have better integration with other products."
"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."
"Sometimes finding errors and output can be difficult because it spits out so many messages that it is hard to figure out which ones are the ones you need to look at and what flow did it actually take through the processor."
"The scalability of Endevor could improve."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"It is still kind of behind the times. It needs to catch up with all the millennials that want a distributed look and feel."
"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface."
"Lacks ability to customize and reporting can be slow."
"We have encountered issues with stability. We have seen where the entire system kind of goes for a toss when certain people use certain types of queries, which are very costly. Then the system kind of slows down a bit, and we have to monitor it."
"The solution is very heavily vendor dependent."
"Teams need clearer pictures of resource availability in charts and dashboards along with plans."
"Some administrative tasks are difficult to perform. These could be simplified."
"If you have multiple projects on one server, the tool becomes very slow, and some reports take longer to load."
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Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews while IBM Engineering Workflow Management is ranked 6th in Software Configuration Management with 15 reviews. Endevor is rated 8.8, while IBM Engineering Workflow Management is rated 6.8. The top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Engineering Workflow Management writes "Offers good traceability elements but UI needs improvement ". Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, ChangeMan ZMF, CA Harvest Software Change Manager and IBM Rational ClearCase, whereas IBM Engineering Workflow Management is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, Microsoft Azure DevOps and GitLab. See our Endevor vs. IBM Engineering Workflow Management report.
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