We performed a comparison between Endevor and Visual Studio Team System 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."Having something that is out-of-the-box that you can customize to suit your organization's needs is huge."
"It provides secure, controlled access to source management."
"In the last year or so, we had a need to start using a CICS web services, and mesh them in with some distributed functions on an enterprise service bus. We put the web services into Endevor and we manage that way now."
"Endevor is easy to use."
"The developers can very easily see what has changed on a particular piece of source code or a program, and others can look at that as well so they can coordinate their changes. It makes it much easier to promote a piece of code up to production."
"Any question that an auditor has about our processes and approvals is all stored in Endevor."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is customization and ease of use."
"It was an easy install. Since it was all set up, it pretty much runs itself now."
"IntelliSense and CodeLens are helpful because they can show you details about your function, such as how many times it is called from other places within the code."
"The solution is scalable, stable and has allowed us to upgrade our frameworks."
"I am not familiar with any issues with respect to stability, and I have never seen Team System crash."
"The solution has a good framework that is user friendly and scalable."
"Visual Studio Team System is the most powerful IDE available in the market."
"Microsoft makes great products. They are quite robust."
"The most valuable feature is the code management, where there is sharing of code for developers and it is distributed within the organization."
"The product helps with version control. I can build, develop, test and deploy applications from a single platform."
"The scalability of Endevor could improve."
"Needs more audit capability when it comes to changes to settings that are made by administrators, as many of these are done through the panels and are therefore not logged as an action against a configuration item."
"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."
"There should be better integration between CA Endevor Software Change Manager and Zowe."
"The initial setup can be less complex and has room for improvement."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"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."
"Support response time could stand improvement."
"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."
"The technical support could be better."
"I would like to see the inclusion of more programming languages, especially better support for Java."
"The product should be priced better."
"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."
"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."
Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews while Visual Studio Team System is ranked 3rd in Software Configuration Management with 14 reviews. Endevor is rated 8.8, while Visual Studio Team System is rated 8.4. 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 Visual Studio Team System writes "A scalable and efficient solution that can be used to perform tasks involved in developing information systems". 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 Visual Studio Team System is most compared with . See our Endevor vs. Visual Studio Team System report.
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