TrustRadius Insights for Control-M are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
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 is used in our organization for more than 10 years. Main usage areas are workload automation, manage file transfer and enterprise managed file transfer. Control-M solves multiple billing and finance business problems such as correct report generation and delivery, multiple system process orchestration like driving finance AR or finance GL processes across multiple systems and architectures within defined SLA and time frames. Reducing human errors to the minimum, by reducing amount of interaction necessary with the system what is very critical during heavy workload days. Control_M is also beneficial to replace 24/7 operations with absolutely powerful scheduling possibilities and custom calendars. Thanks to Control-M self-service and web application - business can be granted with access to corresponding process viewpoints and see corresponding SLA's for important processes.
Pros
Orchestration - simple view on heavy and important cross system processes.
Scheduling - Calendars and Custom scheduling
Resources managing and view point management
Alarming - having all "not successful" stuff in one place.
Cons
Better Integration with Teams and SharePoint with Outlook
Script modification via GUI
Enterprise Managed Transfer - improve gateway options. Increase possibility and variation for file storage and connecting different storage objects.
Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited for Workload optimization and automation. As example running Query in system A, running multiple scripts in system B,C and D. then combining all information in one flow and delivery the report to the destination while informing the customers or business responsible persons. Integration with modern ERPs and easy to manage API connection to other systems. Control_M is easy integration via bult-in plugins ether by utilizing build-in API.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (Telecommunications company, 5001-10,000 employees)
We use Control-m to run and control various tasks such as: running batch jobs that run 24x7 and process data related to many departments in the organisation (and also to alert support teams when jobs fail), reports (daily or based on financial calendars), and even tasks such as spinning up AWS EC2 instances automatically.
Pros
Scheduling with pre-requisites.
Alerting on issues.
Providing an easy-to-use GUI for users.
Hands-off operation.
Cons
The admin utility is now web-based, but it can be a bit clunky.
Some aspects, such as API environment setup, can be a bit confusing.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's fantastic for running and managing tasks and jobs that have prerequisites.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (Retail company, 51-200 employees)
I use Control-M on-site; the product is incredible, but the quality of support has dropped significantly. When support was exclusively Brazilian, it was excellent and specialized. Now, we see that some people have no experience with the tool; they only consult KA, which we also do. I often mention a problem in the ticket that KA didn't solve, and they still send it as a solution. They seem to not understand how Control-M works in a critical environment.
Pros
EM is greater, practical and confiable
Server robust
Agent stable
Cons
I recently opened a case where SAP CM was monitoring child jobs. In version 9.0.21, this doesn't happen. The BMC developer said this was a bug in version 9.0.01, which wasn't actually monitored, but it worked. When child jobs finished, control-m would terminate OK. If it were possible to implement this, it would be great and a differentiator, since not even SAP has this functionality natively. The only tool that currently does this practically without the need to order child jobs is CA Workload.
Likelihood to Recommend
Every i want do i can when Control-M. I participate a lot pocs with other tools but control-M is better.
We use it to track critical deliveries of business services linked to batch, using BIM, generative AI in the analysis of shouts and cancellations.
Utilizamos para acompanhar as entregas críticas de serviços de negócio atreladas ao batch, com uso do BIM, generative ia na análise de shouts e cancelamentos
Pros
orchestration
Timing
Predictability
orquestração
Tempestividade
Previsibilidade
Cons
Batch
Online
Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Track business deliveries
Acompanhar as entregas de negocio
Parts of this review were originally written in Portuguese and have been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
All of [...]' batch business processes (proposals, policies, claims, etc.) are orchestrated in Control-M, including all the business rules involved in these processes. Process simplification and agility through parallel job execution have enabled faster delivery of inputs for the company's decision-making.
Todos os processos de negocios da malha batch da [...] (Propostas, Apolices, Sinistros, etc) sao orquestrados no Control-M, incluindo todas as regras de negocio envolvidas nestes processos. A simplificacao do processos, com agilidade com o uso de paralelismo dos jobs proporcionou uma velocidade na entregas de insumos para a tomada de decisions da companhia.
Pros
File transfer
Resource control
Ease of use
Transferencia de arquivos
Controlm de recursos
Facilidade de uso
Cons
Access someone's jobs table via prompt
Acesso a tabela de jobs someone via prompt
Likelihood to Recommend
Monitoring and reporting.
Monitoramento e geração de relatorios.
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.
Excelente ferramenta e controle e agilidade da producao
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Mainframe, distributed and cloud For mesh workflow batch interfaces by after
Mainframe, distribuida e cloud Para workflow da malha batch interfaces por após
Pros
Deploy Get API
Alert script to open a ticket in the snow
Batch mesh orchestration
API de deploy get
Script de alertas para abrir ticket no snow
Orquestracao da malha batch
Cons
Alert integration for other tools like snow
Vary reports and allow more customizations
Integração de alertas para outras ferramentas como snow
Variar reports e permitir mais customizacoes
Likelihood to Recommend
All batch mesh workflow scenarios
Todos os cenários de workflow da malha batch
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.
In my company, we use Control-M for all orchestration actions.
Pros
File transfer
Backup
Integration
Transferência de arquivos
Integração
Cons
Documentation
Documentação
Likelihood to Recommend
Very good tool
Ferramenta muito boa
Parts of this review were originally written in Portuguese and have been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.