We compared Endevor and BMC Compuware ISPW based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Both Endevor and BMC Compuware ISPW offer robust version control capabilities, efficient source code management, and excellent customer service. Endevor excels in handling complex projects and providing comprehensive audit trails, while BMC Compuware ISPW is praised for its ease of integration and strong reporting capabilities. Users find Endevor's pricing and setup process positive, while BMC Compuware ISPW offers flexibility in licensing options. Endevor users desire improvements in user interface and accessibility, whereas BMC Compuware ISPW users seek enhancements in usability, integration, and analytics features.
Features: Endevor's valuable features include robust version control, efficient source code management, seamless integration, comprehensive audit trails, and handling of complex projects. BMC Compuware ISPW offers ease of integration, streamlined automation, intuitive interface, support for parallel development, customizable workflows, strong reporting capabilities, and responsive customer support.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Endevor is reported to be reasonable and straightforward, based on user feedback. In contrast, BMC Compuware ISPW also offers a straightforward and hassle-free setup cost, with users appreciating its smooth installation process. Both products have positive experiences with pricing, setup cost, and licensing., Endevor users reported significant ROI and positive outcomes. BMC Compuware ISPW also provided positive ROI, according to user feedback.
Room for Improvement: Endevor's room for improvement lies in enhancing its user interface, accessibility, onboarding process, and performance. On the other hand, BMC Compuware ISPW could benefit from improving its usability, navigation, integration with other software, and reporting and analytics capabilities.
Deployment and customer support: Users' feedback for Endevor indicates varying durations for establishing a new tech solution, ranging from three months for deployment to a week for setup. In some cases, the terms "deployment" and "setup" may refer to the same period. For BMC Compuware ISPW, user experiences with the duration vary. Some mentioned deployment taking several weeks, while others mentioned only a week. The setup phase ranged from a few days to a week. The context in which these terms are used is important, as some users may consider them separate phases while others may include both in their timeframe., Endevor's customer service is highly regarded for prompt assistance, reliable solutions, helpful and knowledgeable staff, efficient support, resulting in seamless experiences. BMC Compuware ISPW is praised for excellent customer service with prompt response, expertise, efficiency, and reliable and friendly support.
The summary above is based on 9 interviews we conducted recently with Endevor and BMC Compuware ISPW users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The visual ability to see potential downstream impacts to changes being made assists our developers in understanding the impact associated with their change."
"One of the features that the developers like is that they can retrieve what they need with the tool. They don't have to go through some process or request something be done by another team. They can get the programs they need, compile them, retrieve the JCL and alter the JCL if they need to, and put these programs wherever they need to go for their testing."
"I think the most valuable features are code management, code deployment, and code generation. The fact that those three features are included makes BMC Compuware ISPW a robust product. If one of those features was missing, it would be less robust and less interesting. But because it has those three features, it is a very good solution for code development and management."
"It does our CICS NEWCOPYs and our Db2 binds for us, whereas before, that was a manual process. It takes a lot of the workload off of the operations folks and off the DBAs."
"We had parallel development before, but the way ISPW implements it is better. It has more control and oversight of the process, whereas before, it was like the Wild West. Everybody could have their own package with their own version of the component in it... ISPW is constantly aware of it. It notifies when someone else is using or has a different version of that component."
"We backup people's source code for them."
"It can be very flexible, as far as how you use it. You can make it do nearly anything, but in really clever ways. It is very versatile."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller."
"The management and information CA Endevor Software Change Manager provides is very useful"
"We have used it for years and never had any real issues with it."
"It provides secure, controlled access to source management."
"The tools are specifically designed for mainframe environments, providing features tailored to the unique requirements of the systems, ensuring there are no mistakes."
"Our automation, our development implementations are all automated, which is a huge amount of time savings."
"The solution could be improved by being better integrated with the open world. In the next release, I would like to have the ability to work in an open environment whilst remaining integrated with the legacy environment."
"When you're setting up the parameters for how ISPW will work in your shop, there are a lot of questions that have to be answered... BMC Compuware should have more in-depth explanations about what the choices in each question mean. If you pick A, what does that mean has to happen? What does that impact? If you pick B, what does that mean? What does that impact?"
"One thing I would really like to see some improvement on is the promotion diagnostic messages. It invokes utilities "under the covers" to copy components, and it does not echo back any of the error messages from those utilities."
"There are some features that are not well documented, so documentation could use a little help, on things like setting up deployment and which structures in the database correspond to which tables."
"Better discussions to identify inventory prior to the start of any migration would be helpful for potential clients that have applications with code that is not modified often."
"The solution is very expensive."
"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 main challenges are its limited interface and the complexity of the customization."
"There should be better integration between CA Endevor Software Change Manager and Zowe."
"The initial setup can be less complex and has room for improvement."
"I would like to have better integration with other products."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface."
"The scalability of Endevor could improve."
BMC Compuware ISPW is ranked 2nd in Software Configuration Management with 5 reviews while Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews. BMC Compuware ISPW is rated 8.6, while Endevor is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of BMC Compuware ISPW writes "Tracks code during the change process so that more than one group could have code checked out for change. ISPW provides this tracking info real time helping move toward a more Agile environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". BMC Compuware ISPW is most compared with OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, whereas Endevor is most compared with OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, CA Harvest Software Change Manager, IBM Engineering Workflow Management and IBM Rational ClearCase.
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