We performed a comparison between Endevor and IBM Rational ClearQuest based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."The approach of writing a single set of Endevor processors to work across multiple instances of the application (separate systems) made the processors fairly complex, but once you understand them, they are so powerful."
"The source integrity is the most valuable feature."
"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 source management is excellent."
"Being able to compare versions is helpful."
"We backup people's source code for them."
"It offers security and audit of changes in information assets (software)."
"The tools are specifically designed for mainframe environments, providing features tailored to the unique requirements of the systems, ensuring there are no mistakes."
"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."
"It is still kind of behind the times. It needs to catch up with all the millennials that want a distributed look and feel."
"The scalability of Endevor could improve."
"There are a lot of screens in it. The process for moving out my other solutions, it could be more convenient. There are a lot of steps to go through and a lot of screens to go through to get it accomplished."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Interfacing with some change control products that are not CA's, it's a little glitchy on the approvals of changes. It requires special needs for the users for approvals."
"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."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface."
"Lack of a modern web interface compared to other systems might discourage customers."
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Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews while IBM Rational ClearQuest is ranked 6th in Software Configuration Management. Endevor is rated 8.8, while IBM Rational ClearQuest is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Rational ClearQuest writes "Tracks change requests, problems, and physical asset management. I would like to see data type for floating point numbers. ". Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, CA Harvest Software Change Manager, IBM Engineering Workflow Management and IBM Rational ClearCase, whereas IBM Rational ClearQuest is most compared with Jira, IBM Rational ClearCase, HCL Compass and IBM Rational Synergy.
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