CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs Endevor comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

CA Harvest Software Change ...
Ranking in Software Configuration Management
8th
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Endevor
Ranking in Software Configuration Management
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Mainframe Application Development (3rd)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Software Configuration Management category, the market share of CA Harvest Software Change Manager is 4.2% and it increased by 51.2% compared to the previous year. The market share of Endevor is 31.9% and it decreased by 18.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Software Configuration Management
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Mainframe Application Development
3.1%
 

Featured Reviews

GR
Aug 22, 2021
Powerful UDP functionality with a user-friendly interface
We use this solution for software configuration management. It's the whole lifecycle. It's the application, server application, deployment, and version control. We use an on-premises deployment Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles.  While all of…
Efrén Yanez - PeerSpot reviewer
May 9, 2023
Good analysis and integrations with helpful automation
The solution guarantees the correspondence of the source and executable code (integrity) as well as automates the compilation processes. It also has other uses, such as automatic customization of JCLs/PROCs, and validation of standard names in PGMs, PROCs, JCL, PARM, etc. It offers a single package…

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Pros

"Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles."
"The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."
"The management and information CA Endevor Software Change Manager provides is very useful"
"The source integrity is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller."
"Being able to compare versions is helpful."
"Our automation, our development implementations are all automated, which is a huge amount of time savings."
"It's very flexible. A new technology comes along, this can be multiplied to handle the new technology quite easily."
"It's the audit-level tracking. If something has gone wrong I can go back and figure out what happened, who did it."
"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."
 

Cons

"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."
"Security features can be improved."
"The customer service and support team are not helpful."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"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."
"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."
"There should be better integration between CA Endevor Software Change Manager and Zowe."
"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 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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Once you purchase your licenses, there is maintenance support that is renewed every year."
"It's worth the value. The pricing is fairly good, justifiable for the return on investment."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The product is expensive."
"Licensing is fairly simple, you don't need multiple licenses."
"Just make sure if you are going to license, ensure you license the right features.​"
"It's competitively priced and, as far as I know, it's just an enterprise license. We have found it is worth the money."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Manufacturing Company
18%
Insurance Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
23%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
8%
 

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Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Endevor?
The product’s implementation process is complicated and restrictive. It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up, at lea...
What is your primary use case for Endevor?
We use the product as a source manager and program manager. It helps in controlling the mainframe code and performing data migrations.
 

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Also Known As

CA Harvest SCM, CA Software Change Manager
CA Endevor Software Change Manager, Endevor Software Change Manager, CA Software Change Manager for Mainframe, CA Endevor SCM
 

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Sample Customers

State of New Hampshire, Blue Hill
Blue Hill Data Services Inc.
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