We performed a comparison between Endevor and Visual Studio Team System 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."The source management is excellent."
"The source integrity is the most valuable feature."
"It's very flexible. A new technology comes along, this can be multiplied to handle the new technology quite easily."
"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 management and information CA Endevor Software Change Manager provides is very useful"
"Having something that is out-of-the-box that you can customize to suit your organization's needs is huge."
"The flexibility, because I know a lot of the competition pigeonholes you into definitions and character limitations, and Endevor is wide open."
"Our automation, our development implementations are all automated, which is a huge amount of time savings."
"The product is efficient."
"The solution’s fast performance is its most valuable feature."
"Visual Studio Team System is the most powerful IDE available in the market."
"IntelliSense and CodeLens are helpful because they can show you details about your function, such as how many times it is called from other places within the code."
"The product helps with version control. I can build, develop, test and deploy applications from a single platform."
"The solution has a good framework that is user friendly and scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the code management, where there is sharing of code for developers and it is distributed within the organization."
"The solution is scalable, stable and has allowed us to upgrade our frameworks."
"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."
"The customer service and support team are not helpful."
"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."
"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
"The scalability of Endevor could improve."
"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."
"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."
"The stability of the product could be better."
"Accessibility switches available on the desktop should also be available on mobile devices for coding or developing on the go."
"Support response time could stand improvement."
"When you go into the front-end, the web portal, if, for example, you pick up an issue, it would be ideal if the branch was automatically created in the repository. Right now, this isn't the case."
"The overall customer support needs to improve."
"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."
"I would like to see the inclusion of more programming languages, especially better support for Java."
"The technical support could be better."
Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews while Visual Studio Team System is ranked 3rd in Software Configuration Management with 14 reviews. Endevor is rated 8.8, while Visual Studio Team System is rated 8.4. 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 Visual Studio Team System writes "A scalable and efficient solution that can be used to perform tasks involved in developing information systems". Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, CA Harvest Software Change Manager, IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas Visual Studio Team System is most compared with . See our Endevor vs. Visual Studio Team System report.
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