We performed a comparison between OpenText ChangeMan ZMF 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."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."
"The solution is scalable, stable and has allowed us to upgrade our frameworks."
"The product helps with version control. I can build, develop, test and deploy applications from a single platform."
"Microsoft makes great products. They are quite robust."
"The solution has a good framework that is user friendly and scalable."
"Visual Studio Team System is the most powerful IDE available in the market."
"The solution is very stable."
"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 solution is pretty stable."
"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."
"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 user experience for the task assignment functionality, and more generally the software lifecycle development, needs to be improved."
"The stability of the product could be better."
"The overall customer support needs to improve."
"The technical support could be better."
"The product should be priced better."
"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."
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OpenText ChangeMan ZMF is ranked 5th in Software Configuration Management while Visual Studio Team System is ranked 3rd in Software Configuration Management with 14 reviews. OpenText ChangeMan ZMF is rated 7.6, while Visual Studio Team System is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of OpenText ChangeMan ZMF writes "Very flexible with Johnny-on-the-spot tech support". 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". OpenText ChangeMan ZMF is most compared with Endevor and BMC Compuware ISPW, whereas Visual Studio Team System is most compared with .
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