CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs IBM Rational ClearQuest comparison

Broadcom and IBM are both solutions in the Software Configuration Management category. Broadcom is ranked #9, while IBM is ranked #7. Broadcom holds a 3.4% mindshare in SCM, compared to IBM’s 8.9% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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66% willing to recommend

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between CA Harvest Software Change Manager and IBM Rational ClearQuest based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

CA Harvest Software Change ...

Ranking in Software Configuration Management

9th

Average Rating

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Rational ClearQuest

Ranking in Software Configuration Management

7th

Average Rating

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Defect Tracking (1st)

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 IBM Rational ClearQuest is 8.9%, up from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
IBM Rational ClearQuest	8.9%
CA Harvest Software Change Manager	3.4%
Other	87.7%

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it_user572910

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.

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it_user808977

Software Developer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

It can be adapted to any process flow

ClearQuest is a Defect Tracking system with a highly adaptable state machine together with an easy to use API, which can do all of the functions available in the GUI. This simplifies integration and automation of many steps is why the organization still uses a much older version, as there are no…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

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

"The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."

"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 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."

"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."

"CA Mainframe Software Manager (CA Harvest SCM) provides a great way for us to store our source control."

"It can be adapted to any process flow and easily be integrated with other in-house tools using the ClearQuest API."

"The combination of a highly flexible state machine together with a platform independent API enables possibilities to automate many steps that in many systems are manual."

"In combination with a good Configuration Management plan, an organization can create an optimal level of administration and automation creating good traceability in your tasks."

"This enabled us to completely migrate from paper-based forms to electronic forms for a number of business areas."

"Customization level of the tool to meet client’s requirements, you can do almost all of the customizations for a project or ticket management system, and notification, hooks, and UI customization are very stable."

"The workflow feature with stateful record types and the ability to implement these rapidly in our project have been of value to us."

Cons

"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."

"It needs to be simpler. This is the most difficult SCM tool I’ve ever used."

"One feature that we are looking for is traceability, and also merging. That is a little cumbersome right now."

"The features don’t always work as advertised."

"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."

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"However, the user interface seems very static and the user experience was not the best."

"The user interface could benefit from a more modern look and feel."

"It’s very expensive, especially considering that there are much more economical options out there."

"Lack of a modern web interface compared to other systems might discourage customers."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Once you purchase your licenses, there is maintenance support that is renewed every year."

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Also Known As

CA Harvest SCM, CA Software Change Manager

Rational ClearQuest

Overview

CA Harvest Software Change Manager (CA Harvest SCM) provides powerful, process-driven capabilities for managing development teams across your enterprise, encompassing multiple platforms and release management tools. This release management software enforces your IT governance policies and corporate compliance initiatives including those defined by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It also can ensure adherence to your ITIL-based best practices. CA Harvest SCM can help your enterprise simplify the software release management process as well as the development and maintenance of business applications with streamlined workflows and automated source code versioning. This ITIL release management software can optimize your development resources by providing audit, protection and storage of your software assets, and standardized process management and defect tracking.

Broadcom

IBM Rational ClearQuest is a fully customizable database workflow application development and production system. It provides flexible change and defect tracking, customizable processes, near real-time reporting and lifecycle traceability for better visibility and control of the software development lifecycle. IBM Rational ClearQuest provides scalable, multiplatform support to any size organization so you can continue to customize processes as your development needs evolve.

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Sample Customers

State of New Hampshire, Blue Hill

Atos SE, STM, Regence BlueCross BlueShield

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