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Pros

Centralized Interface Efficiency: Users have praised Control-M for simplifying application management through a centralized interface, ensuring all batch processes are monitored and managed effectively. This feature enhances visibility and streamlines operations by preventing tasks from being overlooked or delayed.

Operational Paradigm Shift: Reviewers have highlighted the shift from reactive to proactive management enabled by the BIM component within Control-M, leading to more efficient handling of production failures. This transition allows teams to address issues before they escalate, improving overall productivity and reducing downtime.

Enhanced Job Mesh Development: Customers appreciate that Control-M/Change Manager has significantly reduced development cycles, from requirements gathering to production testing, by monetizing the development of job meshes. This optimization not only speeds up the process but also increases accuracy and consistency in job execution.

Control-M Reviews

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Control-M Production Support

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Control-M as the only batch job scheduler used on both z/OS and DIST environments in our organization. As an everyday user we are able to determine any schedule delays and were able to correct immediately. Using the reporting tool gave us quick results to find where delays were in our schedules.

Pros

  • Software upgrades
  • On Do Actions
  • Reporting
  • Forecasting

Cons

  • Pre-execution or Post-execution commands for the job setup for z/OS jobs
  • Configuration Manager CCM
  • Data Base connection setup Web portal

Likelihood to Recommend

Control-M is well suited for our environment which we run many cyclic jobs daily thousands of jobs total and able to handle the workload and alert us instantly for both environments with one alert screen.

VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (Business Supplies & Equipment company, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Control-M
2 years of experience

Control-M Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Control-M is used to automate and orchestrate business processes such as database jobs, SAP jobs, and file transfer jobs. With Control-M, we have greater autonomy and ease in executing and maintaining these routines, thus streamlining day-to-day activities.

O Control-M é utilizado para automatização e orquestração de processos de negócio como Jobs de banco de dados, Jobs de SAP, Jobs de File Transfer. Com a ferramenta do Control-M temos maior autonomia e facilidade para a execução e manutenção dessas rotinas, de forma com que o mesmo facilita as atividades do dia a dia.

Pros

  • Process Orchestration
  • File Transfer
  • Log archiving
  • Orquestração de Processos
  • Arquivamento de logs

Cons

  • Maintenance window
  • Client Installation and Update
  • Clearer documentation
  • Janela de manutenção
  • Instalação e Atualização do Client
  • Documentação mais clara

Likelihood to Recommend

Control-M is suitable for automating tasks that are normally performed manually and also for centralizing company routines in a single system. In some cases where operating system administrator permissions are required, it's recommended that the routine be orchestrated differently.

O Control-M é adequado para realizar a automatização de tarefas que são realizadas manualmente e também a centralização de rotinas da empresa em um único sistema. Para alguns casos em que é necessário ter permissão de administrador do sistema operacional é recomendado que a a rotina seja orquestrada de outra forma.

This review was originally written in Portuguese and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
VU
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (Food & Beverages company, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Control-M
2 years of experience

Control-M Automation at its best!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Control-M runs all of our product, sales and distribution for all of North America. We typically run over 2,500 to 3,000 tasks per day. This keeps the business running accurately and efficiently. Without the use of Control-M's automation our IT Department would be tasked with executing multiple scripts/tasks all day and night. That would NOT be efficient!

Pros

  • Batch Automation
  • File Transfer
  • Efficient
  • Successful
  • Customer Focused

Cons

  • How-To documents
  • Self-Help documents

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have to run a business that needs to be operational 24x7x365 then Control-M is the product for you. The ease of the product into your everyday environment is absolutely seamless. I love to use the expression set it and forget it because once you have it you will be wishing that you had it sooner.
JA
Jamie Adelglass
Manager Business Intelligence Systems in Information Technology at BBU INC (Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Control-M
18 years of experience

Great Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Control-M is used as a automation tool for our products. It helps us to implement manual task into automated proceses in order to achieve our business goals.

Pros

  • The use of Managed Transferred Files option to automate our data transfer.
  • Implementation of Disaster Recovery test through Control-M job executions
  • Batch jobs executions of our critical financial enviroment (within email notification to the end user)

Cons

  • Data transfer
  • Big Data
  • Financial areas

Likelihood to Recommend

Control-M is vital for [...]´s business as it helps our proceses to be faster and transfer data internally and with our business partners
VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (Business Supplies & Equipment company, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Control-M
17 years of experience

Workflow management for small manufacturing.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Control-M to schedule jobs and have eliminate 2nd and 3rd shift operators

Pros

  • Run Job streams
  • Run Cyclical Jobs
  • Allow user to check on the status of their jobs

Cons

  • The creation of Self-Service users can be difficult when special privileges are required, and the administrator is not familiar with creating Self-Service users.

Likelihood to Recommend

Appropriate for both simple and complex job flows.
VU
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (Machinery company, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Control-M
25 years of experience

its wonderful

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using for job scheduling in prod instance, its overcome with failed job, when directly schedule in system.

Pros

  • Job scheduling
  • Failure notifications
  • workflow
  • job creation

Cons

  • we are planning to integrate with Service now with Control-M for create failed job ticket.
  • requests in the request set are not same application name due to this Control-M unable trigger job in oracle properly.

Likelihood to Recommend

scheduling jobs its well.
SK
Suresh Kallepu
IT team lead in Information Technology at regalrexnord (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Control-M
16 years of experience

Best workload automation tool on the market.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have 50,000 defined jobs and execute about 500,000 jobs a day. Control-M integrates all legacy products with bought applications and third-party services. We often use AI and restful web service calls for this purpose. We recently implemented Control-M self-service and granted specific developers access to take action on jobs. The next step will be the introduction of WCM.

Pros

  • AI provides a workaround to be able to monitor asynchronous web service calls.
  • Selfservice gives users a complete overview of their job flow and the current status.
  • it's easy to access that output of a job that failed.

Cons

  • Certificate on all levels: Each agent uses different keystrokes for different functions, such as AI, web service calls, and MFT.
  • It's really hard to manage these keystrokes.
  • Trust stores, in case control-m, act as servers; it should be simple to implement certificates from a corporate CA.
  • Some functions must be performed in the fat client, while others can only be performed through the web interface. This should be streamlined as soon as possible.

Likelihood to Recommend

Control-M has been running stable for more than ten years. We have never had complete downtime, and running on an HA solution allows us to minimize service windows.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (Furniture company, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Control-M
15 years of experience

Over 40 years' experience as a scheduler.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the desktop client and the web client with the following job types: OS/ Dummy, File Transfer, Azure, BOOMI, Web services, Snowflake, and more.

Pros

  • Job Scheduling.
  • Service Level Agreement.
  • Cyclic job functioning.
  • Smart folder.

Cons

  • Moving more scheduling functionality to the Web Client.
  • Moving more CCM functionality to the Web Client.

Likelihood to Recommend

Job processing based on the receipt of a file, job processing based on the receipt of multiple files, and the ability to detect and move files to new locations.
VU
Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology (Chemicals company, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Control-M
20 years of experience

First 2 years with Control-M

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Control-M is currently used by a major division of the company.

Pros

  • Consolidates scheduling for multiple technologies in one place
  • Provides visibility and monitoring across all jobs
  • Basics needed to create typical process flow are easy to learn
  • Company aggressively transforming and upgrading the tool
  • Tool allowed to securely separate "tenant" applications and their development teams

Cons

  • The peak use pricing model compares unfavorably to the typical use model (that averages across type). It penalizes organizations with an uneven workload.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for orchestrating processes across technologies and dealing with complex scheduling situations.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (Pharmaceuticals company, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Control-M
2 years of experience

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