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CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs Microsoft Configuration Manager comparison

The compared Broadcom and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Broadcom is ranked #9 in SCM , and holds a 3.4% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #7 in SM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
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Categories and Ranking

CA Harvest Software Change ...
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Software Configuration Management (9th)
Microsoft Configuration Man...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
81
Ranking in other categories
Server Monitoring (7th), Configuration Management (4th), Patch Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Lifecycle Management solutions, they serve different purposes. CA Harvest Software Change Manager is designed for Software Configuration Management and holds a mindshare of 3.4%, up 2.6% compared to last year.
Microsoft Configuration Manager, on the other hand, focuses on Server Monitoring, holds 5.4% mindshare, down 8.3% since last year.
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Powerful UDP functionality with a user-friendly interface
While all of the features are valuable, we use a lot of the UDPs. They normally link to all of the purchases that are being used in a project. They've got a lot of processes that come planned as part of the application, but with the UDPs, you can scale it, or build your own scripts and deployment mechanisms. It's really scalable from a functionality point of view. If there's an issue with functionality out of the box, then you can take care of that via the UDP processes. The interface is very user-friendly.
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MikeNelson2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deployment recovery works well but requires configuration improvements
While I do not use the product frequently, many issues were due to configuration rather than the product itself. I cannot give an exact recommendation as it is not my area of responsibility. The team that uses it finds it adequate. It is presently good enough for us not to investigate other options. Overall, I rate the product a six out of ten.
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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."
"Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles."
"It works well for the endpoints for the customer I'm consulting. It has a bunch of knobs, and you can tune it to do lots of things."
"The solution has a very good set of features."
"It has the ability to perform mass distribution."
"With the right administrator, application deployment can do wonders."
"It's a stable product."
"I like the data collection."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"The technical support is good."
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Cons

"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"Security features can be improved."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"The deployment process is lengthy and should be quicker to complete."
"The solution does not support remote devices so the CMG is still required."
"Their compliance reporting is not accurate, and they admitted it on the phone when we had a call with them. We were trying to understand why their numbers didn't match on our compliance reports. It is not accurate and you cannot depend on the compliance reports. The numbers just don't match, and we can't figure out why. We called Microsoft and they said, "Yeah, that's a known issue." But there is no word that they're working on it."
"This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems."
"I want the system to provide some dependency relations. I would also like to see the relationship between different machines."
"SCCM can improve on third-party application support."
"I currently need to increase my compliance level in the patching processes which this solution could improve on."
"It would be nice to have everything in one place. Now they have Intune for the desktops and SCCM to handle their servers."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Once you purchase your licenses, there is maintenance support that is renewed every year."
"Pricing and licensing are a downside of SCCM. It's expensive. I'd have to confirm this, but I think they changed the licensing to core-based instead of socket-based. It's not cheap, because you have to buy the software, you have to buy SQL. Another thing we learned from talking to Microsoft is that they provide you a license for SQL if you run it on the same box as the primary server. If you run it outside that box, you have to buy SQL. Microsoft does recommend you running it on the same box because of performance. But then, in order to run SQL, SCCM, and everything on the same box, you better have some resources. It's an expensive solution. There's no doubt about it."
"The price is competitive and reasonable."
"Along with buying a license for MECM, we also have to buy a service called CMG (Cloud Management Gateway) which is a virtual machine in the cloud with which you can link your MECM to the Azure tenant so as to manage teleworkers."
"As far as I know, it is an annual operating expense license."
"SCCM comes with its own version of SQL Server. If you use that SQL Server with SCCM and don't use it for another applications than you get an SQL Server for free."
"Overall, I think it's fine. It's pretty much in-line because there are ways to offset it with the Office 365 licensing."
"Pricing is negotiable with Microsoft, depending upon which of their packages you choose."
"Microsoft provides a steep price for their enterprise products, but they offer very competitive pricing for their legacy customers."
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Government
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Also Known As

CA Harvest SCM, CA Software Change Manager
Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM )
 

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.
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Microsoft Configuration Manager helps IT manage PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving employees access to corporate applications on the devices that they choose. When Configuration Manager is integrated with Microsoft Intune, you can manage corporate-connected PCs and Macs along with cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, all from a single management console.

New features of Configuration Manager, such as the support of Windows 10 in-place upgrade, co-management with Microsoft Intune, Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Servicing Dashboard, integration with Windows Update for Business, and more make deploying and managing Windows easier than ever before.

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Sample Customers

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