CA Harvest Software Change Manager Reviews

Name: CA Harvest Software Change Manager
Brand: Broadcom
Rating: 3.6 (6 reviews)

3.6 out of 5

6 reviews
66% willing to recommend

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What is CA Harvest Software Change Manager?

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.

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CA Harvest Software Change Manager is the #9 ranked solution in top Software Configuration Management solutions. PeerSpot users give CA Harvest Software Change Manager an average rating of 7.2 out of 10. CA Harvest Software Change Manager is most commonly compared to Endevor: CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs Endevor.

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CA Harvest Software Change Manager

March 2025

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Featured CA Harvest Software Change Manager reviews

Gerrie Robbetze

IT Specialist at First Rand Bank Ltd.

While all of the features are valuable, we use a lot of the UDPs. They normally link to all of the purchases that are being used in a project. They've got a lot of processes that come planned as part of the application, but with the UDPs, you can scale it, or build your own scripts and deployment mechanisms. It's really scalable from a functionality point of view. If there's an issue with functionality out of the box, then you can take care of that via the UDP processes. The interface is very user-friendly.

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it_user572910

Sr. Configuration Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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_user558207

Enhancement Engineer at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

One of my personal favorite source control systems is Git. I've always been a huge fan of it. It is very, very easy to use. Things like GitHub and Bitbucket do a great job of managing Git and making it really, really easy for us to do things like polar requests for code reviews, and the separation of code into different swim lanes. That kind of management is really hard to do in Harvest, and I'd like to see that brought into the CA Mainframe Software Manager (CA Harvest SCM) product. It does support us with our lifecycle, but the challenges with using it from a developer's point of view bring my score down a little bit. The features don’t always working as advertised.

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CA Harvest Software Change Manager mindshare

As of April 2025, the mindshare of CA Harvest Software Change Manager in the Software Configuration Management category stands at 3.5%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports based on CA Harvest Software Change Manager reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Software Configuration Management	Apr 1, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Apr 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs Endevor	Apr 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs BMC Compuware ISPW	Apr 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs Visual Studio Team System	Apr 1, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Endevor	4.4	34.5%	92%	45 interviews Add to research
IBM Engineering Workflow Management	3.4	3.2%	64%	17 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"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."

Room for Improvement

"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"Security features can be improved."