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"The flexibility, because I know a lot of the competition pigeonholes you into definitions and character limitations, and Endevor is wide open.""The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller.""The tools are specifically designed for mainframe environments, providing features tailored to the unique requirements of the systems, ensuring there are no mistakes.""Endevor is easy to use.""It's the audit-level tracking. If something has gone wrong I can go back and figure out what happened, who did it.""​It was an easy install. Since it was all set up, it pretty much runs itself now.""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.""It provides secure, controlled access to source management."

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"The combination of a highly flexible state machine together with a platform independent API enables possibilities to automate many steps that in many systems are manual.""It can be adapted to any process flow and easily be integrated with other in-house tools using the ClearQuest API."

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"We audit once a year for our ChangeMan access, accurate financial programs, and all of that. Auditors really love ChangeMan for how easy it is to get through and how tight the security is on it. Our internal auditors, external auditors, and SOX editors love this solution. We're in the healthcare business, so HIPAA regulations and all such things are a big deal, and this makes all that really simple.""Scalability is great. It has absolutely met every need for us so far. We do have some concurrent development paths and we're able to flexibly assign variables. At the same time, our skeletons assemble where we want them to, so the scalability is very good."

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"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.""The customer service and support team are not helpful.""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.""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.""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.""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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"Lack of a modern web interface compared to other systems might discourage customers."

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"I would like to see them enable parallel development for online. It's available now for batch stuff on the mainframe. Jenkins, IBM, and Rocket all supposedly already have safe and workable version of Git for the mainframe. With that in mind, we need to know where our feature is.""As such, there's nothing wrong with the product. It is great, but there are small things that can be better to make it much more friendly. The way you navigate through fields can be improved. If I'm going to stage a component over something that exists and that I've created in another library, and I want to pull it in and write it over what I've got there in my package, I've got to type in that data set name every time. That can be aggravating. It is not a big deal. The way things are sorted can also be improved. If you're doing a delete of a bunch of components, you can't sort those out by type or anything. Some things are just standard, and you can't look at them in a way that would be helpful."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Just make sure if you are going to license, ensure you license the right features.​"
  • "It's worth the value. The pricing is fairly good, justifiable for the return on investment."
  • "Licensing is fairly simple, you don't need multiple licenses."
  • "It's competitively priced and, as far as I know, it's just an enterprise license. We have found it is worth the money."
  • "The solution is very expensive."
  • "The product is expensive."
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  • "It's on a yearly basis. I am not aware of any additional costs."
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    Also Known As
    CA Endevor Software Change Manager, Endevor Software Change Manager, CA Software Change Manager for Mainframe, CA Endevor SCM
    Rational ClearQuest
    Micro Focus ChangeMan ZMF, ChangeMan ZMF
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    Overview
    CA Endevor Software Change Manager (CA Endevor SCM) is the most widely used change management software for the mainframe environment. It can automate your entire development process, adapting to your specific business requirements and helping ensure consistency and complete control. Integration with IBM Rational Developer for System z can improve productivity, accelerate time-to-delivery and ensure the auditability of all programmer activities. Eclipse-ready, CA Endevor SCM helps shorten the learning curve for application developers. It provides your team with business-driven, customizable lifecycle paths and automated version control to protect your software assets and help maintain application integrity.

    IBM Rational ClearQuest is a fully customizable database workflow application development and production system. It provides flexible change and defect tracking, customizable processes, near real-time reporting and lifecycle traceability for better visibility and control of the software development lifecycle. IBM Rational ClearQuest provides scalable, multiplatform support to any size organization so you can continue to customize processes as your development needs evolve.

    Change management solutions that tackle the complexity of developing, deploying and maintaining software applications.
    Sample Customers
    Blue Hill Data Services Inc.
    Atos SE, STM, Regence BlueCross BlueShield
    SPTS Technologies, Generali France, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH), Kutxa-Vital-Banco Madrid, Space and Naval Warfare Information Technology Center (SPAWAR ITC)
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm59%
    Insurance Company13%
    Healthcare Company10%
    Comms Service Provider5%
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    Financial Services Firm29%
    Computer Software Company23%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Insurance Company8%
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    Manufacturing Company23%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Government9%
    Energy/Utilities Company6%
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    Financial Services Firm28%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Insurance Company13%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Company Size
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    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise80%
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    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise80%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Midsize Enterprise6%
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