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Control-M

Score9.3 out of 10

229 Reviews and Ratings

Top Performing Features

  • Multi-platform scheduling

    Multi-platform scheduling is the ability to centrally manage a business process from end-to-end

    Category average: 9.2

  • Central monitoring

    A central monitoring dashboard provides data on trends and forecasts

    Category average: 9

  • Alerts and notifications

    Alerts and notifications enabling management by exception

    Category average: 8.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Application integration

    Integration with a broad range of enterprise applications

    Category average: 8.4

  • Logging

    Logging and audit trails to ensure regulatory compliance

    Category average: 8.6

  • Analysis and visualization

    Analysis and visualization tools provide clear understanding of critical errors and helps prioritize errors

    Category average: 8.3

Control-M automating your daily jobs the future is here.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used to manage back office operations.

Pros

  • Running jobs with dependencies
  • Submitting subsequent jobs automatically

Cons

  • Migrate fully to Web based appication

Return on Investment

  • Support costs less than previous application
  • develop and deliver quicker solutions

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)

Other Software Used

ServiceNow Enterprise Asset Management

Control-M is awesome

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It addresses business problems like operational inefficiency, process unreliability, and the challenges of scaling complex workflows. The scope of its use case encompasses a wide range of activities, including data warehousing, file transfers, application deployments, and even integration with emerging technologies like cloud platforms and data analytics tools. Devops - "as code"

Pros

  • It is the best tool in the WLA environmenmt
  • Its user friendly
  • Very good security provided in Control-M
  • SSO using okta SSO idp can be enabled
  • It is audit compliance, easy to capture the evidence

Cons

  • Reporting requires lot of bandwidth.
  • History tab is very late
  • Remove Control-M EM component and add all em features in Control-M server to make only 2 components(Control-M server and agent)

Return on Investment

  • Control-M has demonstrated a positive ROI by enabling significant cost savings, improving service delivery speed and accuracy, and facilitating business expansion through automation and streamlined processes.
  • Automation with Control-M minimizes the need for manual intervention in workflows, freeing up staff for higher-value tasks and reducing the potential for human error.
  • Bmc should consider cost effectiveness for long term clients during license renewal
  • By automating processes, Control-M helps optimize resource allocation, ensuring that resources are used effectively and efficiently.
  • By providing real-time visibility into workflows and processes, Control-M enables better decision-making based on accurate and timely data.
  • Scalability

Usability

Alternatives Considered

HCL Workload Automation

Other Software Used

BMC Helix ITSM

Control-M mastering the batch processing.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Control-M as the primary scheduling tool in our organization. We used IBM's TWS earlier as official scheduling, but we recently migrated to Control-M. Control-M addresses the following business challenges: Operational efficiency: Automating manual tasks reduces human error, improves productivity, and frees IT staff up for more strategic initiatives. Process reliability: Ensuring critical business processes execute on time and accurately, minimizing disruptions and downtime. Scalability: Handling increasing workloads and data volumes efficiently without compromising performance. Compliance: Adhering to regulatory requirements and internal policies by automating audit trails and control processes.Cost reduction: Optimizing resource utilization and reducing operational expenses through automation.Scope of Use CasesThe scope of Control-M usage varies widely across organizations. Still, everyday use cases include Batch processing, Scheduling, and executing batch jobs for data processing, report generation, and file transfers. ETL processes: Orchestrating data extraction, transformation, and loading tasks for data warehousing and analytics. IT operations: Automating system maintenance, backup, and recovery procedures. Financial processes: Executing financial calculations, reconciliations, and reporting.

Pros

  • BATCH PROCESSING.
  • ETL WORKFLOW COMPLEX SCHEDULING.
  • API INTEGRATION WITH APPLICATION.
  • HAVE USER FRIENDLY GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE.

Cons

  • More sophisticated root cause analysis tools would help identify and address job failures more efficiently.
  • The ability to create custom reports tailored to specific business needs would provide greater flexibility.
  • Expanding the API capabilities would allow deeper integration with other systems and tools.
  • Ensuring that Control-M can handle increasing workloads and data volumes without performance degradation is crucial.

Return on Investment

  • Need improve licensing model for Cloud native application.
  • For On-prem environment also licensing model need to be cost effective.
  • Security patches and features need to be releases more frequently

Usability

Alternatives Considered

TWST Events, Redwood RunMyJobs and AutoSys Workload Automation

Other Software Used

AWS Batch, Google Cloud Dataflow

Best of breed and moving farther ahead

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Control-M is used as the corporate Workload Automation tool and is particularly used in cross-platform scenarios (mainly Linux and Windows servers) when active resource management is required, for integrated housekeeping tasks (e.g. server housekeeping, backups, DB housekeeping) and when we need to ensure guaranteed operations. We use it to send out SMS alerts (and emails) when serious errors occur.

Application-wise we use it for Data Warehouse, Peoplesoft, file transfers, various banking apps, direct DB jobs (Control-M for Databases), Cadis, Tableau and managing various in-house apps.

Pros

  • Control-M Advanced File Transfer is a very useful add-on, allowing for a wide variety of file transfers to be configured "out of the box" and then used as part of the standard batch flow. This module is not included in the base price but is available at a relatively small additional cost.
  • Using Control-M's GUI (the Enterprise Manager) allows for efficient management of the enterprise and can tie up a lot of "loose ends". Often the first point of tracking problems is to check with the Control-M guys!
  • BMC is definitely moving the product forward, the new module "Application Integrator" is very helpful in building and deploying your own bespoke Control-M jobs and allows for closer and more secure integration.
  • Although Control-M does open up the enterprise in an operational sense, the security settings (should you choose to implement them) are robust.

Cons

  • The reporting provided with Control-M could have more functionality, Many users end up creating their own reporting based on the Control-M DB. I believe BMC are addressing this.
  • Within the Advanced File Transfer (AFT) it would be useful to have an integrated FT server and not rely on the underlying SSH.
  • All batch schedulers have issues with fully automating tasks in a Windows environment and Control-M is no exception. Userids and profiles are harder concepts to deal with in the Windows world but BMC are doing their best to address this and Control-M would be better at handling these scenarios than the alternative products.

Return on Investment

  • In terms of ROI, Control-M pays for itself within 12 months of purchase, sometimes sooner. Pointing this out to your fellow product qwners will not make you popular.
  • By automating repetitive tasks you free staff from these mundane and error-prone roles and allow them to be more productive. An example would be using the AFT module for file transfers. File transfer scripts tend to be in-house scripts that need maintaining. Using the AFT removes most of this overhead and allows for easy problem resolution.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Automic Dollar Universe and CA Workload Automation

Other Software Used

OpenText Data Protector, Oracle PeopleSoft ERP, Tableau Server

Putting the M in Mastery.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Picture this: data pipeline drops at 2am. Its supposed to grab logs, transform them, update a warehouse and send an alert. Now, if anything in that chain fails, someone is waking up cranky. But Control-M, It tracks every step, check conditions, retries intelligently, and if something goes, it tells us where and why. It basically keeps the wheels turning behind the scenes without us needing a million scripts duct-taped together

Pros

  • The way it handles dependencies wow. You can chain jobs across different systems like yore DJing in a data center
  • The calendar functionality, a chefs kiss. handles holidays time zones, exceptions...
  • The self service portal, how it lets non techie teams trigger and monitor their own jobs blowing something up or bothering IT every 5 minutes.

Cons

  • Control-M isn't exactly light weight. You don't casually "try it out". Its a commitment
  • If you aren't use to Control-M's way of thinking(folders, jobs, SMART tables

Return on Investment

  • Since centralizing all our workflows in Control-M, we've cut end to end processing time by nearly 30%
  • Before Control-M we were babysitting scripts, manually rerunning failed jobs, and chasing ghost errors. With automated recovery, smart notifications, and fewer failures slipping through the cracks, we have saved 3 hours a day across teams
  • Our workflows success rate sits at 99.95% and when things do fail, they are pinpointed immediately

Usability

Other Software Used

AWS Cloud9, Azure DevOps Server