We performed a comparison between Endevor, IBM Rational ClearCase, and Visual Studio Team System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."Stability has been really good. I have actually never had to open an issue or report an issue since I have been running it."
"It provides secure, controlled access to source management."
"It standardizes the processing of all the development. Everything gets produced in a constant and consistent manner."
"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 backup people's source code for them."
"It's the audit-level tracking. If something has gone wrong I can go back and figure out what happened, who did it."
"The approach of writing a single set of Endevor processors to work across multiple instances of the application (separate systems) made the processors fairly complex, but once you understand them, they are so powerful."
"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."
"ClearCase integrates well with other engineering tools and frameworks such as the Eclipse environment."
"IBM Rational ClearCase is a stable solution. I have not had any difficulty with reliability."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"The solution’s fast performance is its most valuable feature."
"I am not familiar with any issues with respect to stability, and I have never seen Team System crash."
"The solution is scalable, stable and has allowed us to upgrade our frameworks."
"Visual Studio Team System is the most powerful IDE available in the market."
"The solution has a good framework that is user friendly and scalable."
"The product is efficient."
"The solution is very stable."
"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."
"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."
"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
"The main challenges are its limited interface and the complexity of the customization."
"The initial setup can be less complex and has room for improvement."
"The solution is very expensive."
"It is still kind of behind the times. It needs to catch up with all the millennials that want a distributed look and feel."
"The protection needs to be improved."
"I have found it very difficult to understand many functionalities in IBM Rational ClearCase. We have had many problems and it is not user-friendly."
"The product should be priced better."
"The tool's subscriptions are expensive for medium and small businesses. It works fine on Windows. However, it is not stable on other platforms."
"I would say compared to some more modern tools which are made to work offline, with this solution you have to be connected all of the time and with a central server. In our case, it's not a big problem because we all work on-premises, but it can be an issue if you have teams in different locations."
"The overall customer support needs to improve."
"The stability of the product could be better."
"The user experience for the task assignment functionality, and more generally the software lifecycle development, needs to be improved."
"I have seen customizations with Team System that allowed it to integrate into other ticketing systems like Jira, which would be a really nice feature to see."
"Support response time could stand improvement."