CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs OpenText Solutions Business Manager comparison

Broadcom and OpenText are both solutions in the Software Configuration Management category. Broadcom is ranked #9, while OpenText is ranked #10. Broadcom holds a 3.4% mindshare in SCM, compared to OpenText’s 5.7% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between CA Harvest Software Change Manager and OpenText Solutions Business Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Software Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs. OpenText Solutions Business Manager Report (Updated: March 2026).

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CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs. OpenText Solutions Business Manager

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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

OpenText Solutions Business...

Ranking in Software Configuration Management

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (38th)

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 OpenText Solutions Business Manager is 5.7%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
CA Harvest Software Change Manager	3.4%
OpenText Solutions Business Manager	5.7%
Other	90.9%

Software Configuration Management

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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_user713322

Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We've used it for traditional help desk and defect tracking endeavors

It is the Swiss Army knife of software applications. If you have a process, SBM can be easily used to track and report on that process We've used it for traditional help desk and defect tracking endeavors, but we've also used it for HR, Marketing, and even some non-traditional government…

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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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Allows us to automate work flows to provision IS services."

"The Composer is absolutely a magical tool, allowing you to get a fully functional app based on your process sketch in a couple of hours, without knowing BPMN notation."

"There was a significant ROI, as the development of weekly metrics from Excel spreadsheets, Lotus Notes databases, Access databases, and some Word documents went from a two to three day affair to a process that now takes seconds."

"Estimates from all teams are visible in one general ticket (PFC)."

Cons

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

"Security features can be improved."

"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."

"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."

"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."

"Security features can be improved."

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"Reporting is generally very good, but people always want more."

"Response time could improve."

"User interface and links between tickets. For me, Jira is the ideal tool."

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

Micro Focus Solutions Business Manager, Serena Solutions Business Manager, TeamTrack

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

OpenText Solutions Business Manager is enterprise-scale business process automation software. It helps IT quickly create, adapt, deploy, and govern process-based apps and workflows for humans and systems across the organization.

OpenText

Sample Customers

State of New Hampshire, Blue Hill

eBay, AgustaWestland, EMI Music, LenderLive, Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. Ltd.

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