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"It offers security and audit of changes in information assets (software).""The flexibility, because I know a lot of the competition pigeonholes you into definitions and character limitations, and Endevor is wide open.""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.""The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller.""The management and information CA Endevor Software Change Manager provides is very useful""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."

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"It can be adapted to any process flow and easily be integrated with other in-house tools using the ClearQuest API.""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."

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"The customer service and support team are not helpful.""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.""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.""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.""They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface.​""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.""There should be better integration between CA Endevor Software Change Manager and Zowe."

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"Lack of a modern web interface compared to other systems might discourage customers."

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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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    Also Known As
    CA Endevor Software Change Manager, Endevor Software Change Manager, CA Software Change Manager for Mainframe, CA Endevor SCM
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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.

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    Blue Hill Data Services Inc.
    Atos SE, STM, Regence BlueCross BlueShield
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm59%
    Insurance Company13%
    Healthcare Company10%
    Comms Service Provider5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm29%
    Computer Software Company23%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Insurance Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company23%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Government9%
    Energy/Utilities Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise80%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise80%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews while IBM Rational ClearQuest is ranked 6th in Software Configuration Management. Endevor is rated 8.8, while IBM Rational ClearQuest is rated 7.2. 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 Rational ClearQuest writes "Tracks change requests, problems, and physical asset management. I would like to see data type for floating point numbers. ". Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, CA Harvest Software Change Manager, IBM Engineering Workflow Management and IBM Rational ClearCase, whereas IBM Rational ClearQuest is most compared with Jira, IBM Rational ClearCase, HCL Compass and IBM Rational Synergy.

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