Endevor Reviews

Name: Endevor
Brand: Broadcom
Rating: 4 (45 reviews)

Vendor: Broadcom

4.4 out of 5

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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.

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Endevor is the #1 ranked solution in top Software Configuration Management solutions and #3 ranked solution in top Mainframe Application Development solutions. PeerSpot users give Endevor an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. Endevor is most commonly compared to BMC Compuware ISPW: Endevor vs BMC Compuware ISPW. Endevor is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 80% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 29% of all views.

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Efrén Yanez

Security Manager & CM Specialist & Mainframe Specialist en eSoft at eSoft 2006

May 9, 2023

The solution guarantees the correspondence of the source and executable code (integrity) as well as automates the compilation processes. It also has other uses, such as automatic customization of JCLs/PROCs, and validation of standard names in PGMs, PROCs, JCL, PARM, etc. It offers a single package…

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Michael Burgun

Technical Advisory Consultant at BT Financial Group

Oct 12, 2022

The integrity of the system is valuable. It provides secure, controlled access to source management and the typical check-in and check-out functions in a typical source management product The solution can improve its parallel development, unlike more distributed source management systems like GIT…

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Haim Ben Zagmi

R&D Team Leader at First International Bank of Israel

Sep 4, 2023

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…

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Endevor market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of Endevor in the Software Configuration Management category stands at 31.0%, marking a decrease of 4.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"Endevor is easy to use."
"The tools are specifically designed for mainframe environments, providing features tailored to the unique requirements of the systems, ensuring there are no mistakes."
"It offers security and audit of changes in information assets (software)."

Room for Improvement

"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
"The main challenges are its limited interface and the complexity of the customization."
"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."

Pricing

"The product is expensive."
"The solution is very expensive."
"It's competitively priced and, as far as I know, it's just an enterprise license. We have found it is worth the money."

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Computer Software Company

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Endevor was previously known as CA Endevor Software Change Manager, Endevor Software Change Manager, CA Software Change Manager for Mainframe, CA Endevor SCM.