OpenText Solutions Business Manager vs Rocket ChangeMan ZMF (formerly a Micro Focus product) comparison

"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)."

"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."

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

"Auditors really love ChangeMan for how easy it is to get through and how tight the security is on it."

"Scalability is great. It has absolutely met every need for us so far. We do have some concurrent development paths and we're able to flexibly assign variables. At the same time, our skeletons assemble where we want them to, so the scalability is very good."

"Scalability is great; it has absolutely met every need for us so far, and we do have some concurrent development paths where we're able to flexibly assign variables while our skeletons assemble where we want them to, so the scalability is very good."

"We audit once a year for our ChangeMan access, accurate financial programs, and all of that. Auditors really love ChangeMan for how easy it is to get through and how tight the security is on it. Our internal auditors, external auditors, and SOX editors love this solution. We're in the healthcare business, so HIPAA regulations and all such things are a big deal, and this makes all that really simple."

"What’s most valuable to me is the ability to compile the code and move it through the test and productions environments."

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

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

"Response time could improve."

"I would like to see a better search tool."

"Their technical support is not so good. To be perfectly honest, that's one of the reasons we were looking at other solutions."

"I would like to see them enable parallel development for online. It's available now for batch stuff on the mainframe. Jenkins, IBM, and Rocket all supposedly already have safe and workable version of Git for the mainframe. With that in mind, we need to know where our feature is."

"As such, there's nothing wrong with the product. It is great, but there are small things that can be better to make it much more friendly. The way you navigate through fields can be improved. If I'm going to stage a component over something that exists and that I've created in another library, and I want to pull it in and write it over what I've got there in my package, I've got to type in that data set name every time. That can be aggravating. It is not a big deal. The way things are sorted can also be improved. If you're doing a delete of a bunch of components, you can't sort those out by type or anything. Some things are just standard, and you can't look at them in a way that would be helpful."

"I would like to see them enable parallel development for online. It's available now for batch stuff on the mainframe."

"It's on a yearly basis. I am not aware of any additional costs."