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CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs Endevor comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

CA Harvest Software Change ...
Ranking in Software Configuration Management
9th
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Endevor
Ranking in Software Configuration Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Mainframe Application Development (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Software Configuration Management category, the mindshare of CA Harvest Software Change Manager is 3.4%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Endevor is 17.2%, down from 34.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Software Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Endevor17.2%
CA Harvest Software Change Manager3.4%
Other79.4%
Software Configuration Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user572910 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Configuration Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Has helped us track the application flow across each of our environments, promotion from dev to our higher environments, to production.
One feature that we are looking for is traceability, and also merging. That is a little cumbersome right now. We have provided our feedback to their representatives so they can provide us a good merging capability next time. One thing that I would like to improve is making the tool a little more user friendly. It takes a little bit of time to adjust to the tool because it's a little different than other version control tools out there in the market. But, it has its own benefits and own security, but that user experience, if they're going to improve it, that would be really great.
HB
R&D Team Leader at First International Bank of Israel
A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise
We use the basic feature set of Endevor to control and track all of the sales operations within our company.  It is a very good product that allows safe management of the individual components. The tools are specifically designed for mainframe environments, providing features tailored to the…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I have not encountered any stability issues."
"The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."
"The auditing capability is one aspect that I would really recommend other colleagues to look into, because all the other version control tools out in the market provide speed, but the auditing capability is missing; the change management interaction; etc."
"Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles."
"The most valuable feature I would say is we can integrate that with our change management process and use that to control what goes into production and what doesn't."
"CA Mainframe Software Manager (CA Harvest SCM) provides a great way for us to store our source control."
"The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."
"It is easy to use, easy to learn, and easy to maintain; also the automation."
"We cut implementation errors by around 99%."
"The most valuable features are stability and ease of use."
"CA Endevor is better than not having any source control management, some kind of source control tools."
"It maintains a 99.999% uptime."
"Endevor is a solid product; it works, does its job, is stable, and I have never heard any complaints for improvements in this product."
"They provide answers and solutions."
"It's very flexible. A new technology comes along, this can be multiplied to handle the new technology quite easily."
 

Cons

"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"When you're trying to do collaboration or when you're trying to cater to multiple users and developers who submit code changes, it gets challenging with Harvest."
"Security features can be improved."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"One feature that we are looking for is traceability, and also merging. That is a little cumbersome right now."
"It needs to be simpler. This is the most difficult SCM tool I’ve ever used."
"The features don’t always work as advertised."
"Security features can be improved."
"If they deploy it correctly, then it provides a tremendous benefit, but if you lay it out wrong, it can be a nightmare to work with."
"Learning the tool for the first time was extremely difficult, and it could be because of all the other processes we had around it."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface.​"
"The Eclipse based UI still needs improvement and CA is working on that in v18."
"I would like to see it used for Hadoop, which is really huge now."
"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 graphical user interface. It would be a big tool to change (but needed), just because as the workforce kind of ages and retires, the younger generation is not as familiar with mainframe and looking at a green screen is not really a huge selling point to them."
"The solution is very expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Once you purchase your licenses, there is maintenance support that is renewed every year."
"It's worth the value. The pricing is fairly good, justifiable for the return on investment."
"It's competitively priced and, as far as I know, it's just an enterprise license. We have found it is worth the money."
"Licensing is fairly simple, you don't need multiple licenses."
"The product is expensive."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Just make sure if you are going to license, ensure you license the right features.​"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
30%
Insurance Company
12%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise39
 

Also Known As

CA Harvest SCM, CA Software Change Manager
CA Endevor Software Change Manager, Endevor Software Change Manager, CA Software Change Manager for Mainframe, CA Endevor SCM
 

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Sample Customers

State of New Hampshire, Blue Hill
Blue Hill Data Services Inc.
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