We performed a comparison between CA Harvest Software Change Manager and Visual Studio Team System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."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."
"The solution is very stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Every month there is an increase in the number of users. It is a scalable solution."
"The product helps with version control. I can build, develop, test and deploy applications from a single platform."
"Microsoft makes great products. They are quite robust."
"The product is efficient."
"The solution has a good framework that is user friendly and scalable."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"I am not familiar with any issues with respect to stability, and I have never seen Team System crash."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"Security features can be improved."
"I would like to see the inclusion of more programming languages, especially better support for Java."
"Support response time could stand improvement."
"I have seen customizations with Team System that allowed it to integrate into other ticketing systems like Jira, which would be a really nice feature to see."
"The product must improve its stability."
"The user experience for the task assignment functionality, and more generally the software lifecycle development, needs to be improved."
"I would say compared to some more modern tools which are made to work offline, with this solution you have to be connected all of the time and with a central server. In our case, it's not a big problem because we all work on-premises, but it can be an issue if you have teams in different locations."
"The tool's subscriptions are expensive for medium and small businesses. It works fine on Windows. However, it is not stable on other platforms."
"When you go into the front-end, the web portal, if, for example, you pick up an issue, it would be ideal if the branch was automatically created in the repository. Right now, this isn't the case."
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CA Harvest Software Change Manager is ranked 8th in Software Configuration Management while Visual Studio Team System is ranked 3rd in Software Configuration Management with 14 reviews. CA Harvest Software Change Manager is rated 7.2, while Visual Studio Team System is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of CA Harvest Software Change Manager writes "Powerful UDP functionality with a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Team System writes "A scalable and efficient solution that can be used to perform tasks involved in developing information systems". CA Harvest Software Change Manager is most compared with Endevor, whereas Visual Studio Team System is most compared with .
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