CA Harvest Software Change Manager Reviews & Product Details

The feature like "change package & environment available for different for projects really helped us with the configuration control process. It had also helped for managing our SCM process/ lifecycles through source code versioning, version control & other good features. It has helped us with the timely code review & version control. This tool really helped us to be Agil in the SDLC cycle & also boosted team performance in Project management activites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Had minor hiccpus with few platforms. Overall no major cons with the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The CA Harvest Change Manager comes with modules

1. CA Harvest workbench and

2. CA Harvets Administrator module

Workbench Module:

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Suppose someone wants to build a release process for their software, then this tool provides lots of functionality like maintaing the version release of a specific patch or feature using a package based deployments.

It also release based on the configuration in the tool:

working state

Managed control state

Baseline

Production

these states can be configured as dev, staging and production which makes the tool more flexible.

Admin Module:

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This module provides compete fucntionality to maintain the projects lifecycle and access provided to each team member in each project.

Conclusion:

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This software is good for a release team and provides many functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The source server from where the files needs to be checked in the repository needs to be done manually which sometimes problematic for example if the changes are in multiple path of the repository then we have to check in the file from multiple location to multiple path of the repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have used CA Harvest to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles. You can build your own scripts and deployment mechanisms. The interface is very user friendly. The licensing costs for this solution are very reasonable. The tool is very very stable. We can integrate CA Harvest with many other tools for a smooth delivery process. Integration process is quite simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Technical support for this solution is good, but there is still some scope for improvement in some regards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used CA Harvest back in 2017 and it is a very good application for deployment automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be tricky if you are a first time user as it gives you lot of freedom around deploying content. You have to be careful on what you do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It help for development teams across enterprise, multiple platforms and release management tools, It simplify the software release management process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its costly, license cost is more ,it should be reasonable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Single window to handle all deployment right from Dev To Prod environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it is getting slow to move artifacts to environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One click to migrate code from one server to another Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Writing long scripts to maintain refresh file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple intuitive GUI. Reliable SW. great tool to manage SW development and delivery

User Friendly

Great customer support

Helped reduce production issues.

Assisted developers with gaining confidence with the quality of source control management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A fewer interaction with IDEs

Longer to adopt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It allows user to set up various repositories and folders as many as the company require Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product is very Good and a lot of features so nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It allows user to set up various repositories and folders as many as they want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up a process is a litte cumbersome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.