CA Harvest Software Change Manager Reviews

We use this solution for software configuration management. It's the whole lifecycle. It's the application, server application, deployment, and version control.

We use an on-premises deployment.

Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles. 

It has helped us to integrate version control with change management. That has helped us track the application flow across each of our environments, promotion from dev to our higher environments, to production. The tracking aspect of the tool is one of the primary benefits, with security. That helps us keep tabs on all of the promotions, and we are able to manage write approvals before it goes into production.

CA Harvest has been one of our primary version control tools. It has helped us map all of our applications into a version control environment, where we are able to map them, and help the code promotion across each environment, and we are able to deploy them in a safe manner.

The company is confidential and this is privileged information. I'm not at liberty to discuss this but we are in the financial services industry.

We are able to implement proper controls into our software development life cycle. The application is adaptable to which development strategy you use (waterfall, agile etc.).

I appreciate the ability to separate the code by environments.

We are required to use this, but I personally wouldn’t have chosen it as our SCM of choice.

CA Mainframe Software Manager (CA Harvest SCM) provides a great way for us to store our source control. It provides the lifecycle features to identify where our source code is in the lifecycle of our software. The lifecycle stuff is probably the biggest feature that I like.

The benefit is really around the lifecycle features of the tool. It benefits our organization because it allows us to customize that lifecycle to match what we do, which makes it extremely easy for us to see where we are.

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. That is very important for us as any change that happens gets very closely watched, especially when we are making emergency changes or fixes. Harvest supports our change management process. That's where it shines.

Organizationally, the main benefit is it supports our processes and it helps implement them effectively.