Control-M

Control-M

103 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Control-M	Score 7.2 out of 10	N/A	Control-M from BMC is a platform for integrating, automating, and orchestrating application and data workflows in production across complex hybrid technology ecosystems. It provides deep operational capabilities, delivering speed, scale, security, and governance.	N/A

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Control-M

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Control-M
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

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Community Pulse
	Control-M
Considered Both Products	Control-M Angela Rogers Marketing Specialist Chose Control-M Since IBM Workload Automation isn't compatible with all of our project's operating systems, we've decided to switch to using Control-C instead. Second, the provider provides top-notch customer service in the event of an emergency. Control-M is a lightweight program that places … Incentivized Helpful? Oscar Narváez Del Rio Analytics and Automation Tools Manager - Perú & Chile Chose Control-M Relationship with the partner, product features, and change manager for the development cycle. Helpful? PS Pradeep Sharma Senior Specialist Chose Control-M We prefer the Control-C over the IBM Workload Automation because it isn't supported on all available OS platforms in our project. Second, we are getting excellent customer support from the vendor in case of any critical issue comes in operations. Control-M is a light weight … Helpful? Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Chose Control-M When we got Control-M when there weren't other options. Converting to another system was evaluated, but not done. Incentivized Helpful? Raciel Hernández Barroso Senior Workload Automation Consultant Chose Control-M Simplicity and good user experience. Ability to scale and process large amounts of jobs without affecting the user experience. For the large number of Jobs palettes and the ease of designing new Job Types. Helpful? Antoine Dutranois Responsable Offre Intégration / Directeur d'agence Chose Control-M Control-M is the leader on workload automation. With 250 developers they always upgrade the product to develop new functionalities. Incentivized Helpful? Aziz Khawaja Manager - Enterprise Applications Chose Control-M We use a suite of BMC software in which we use Control-M, Remedy, Bladelogic, Patrol/Perform. We selected and trusted them because they have worked so well for many years. Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Control-M Developers are more eager to use Control-M as it has bigger market share. Helpful? Scott Kelm Application Administrator Chose Control-M Control-M has a much simpler interface and UI than ActiveBatch. Incentivized Helpful? MN Mahesh Nerlekar BI Development Manager Chose Control-M Much better UI and much better handling of dependencies in Control-M compared to other tools. Helpful? Jeff Drew Sr. Systems Administrator Chose Control-M Manpower Inc. has used Control-M for more than a decade. In the past, Control-M offered broader controls, greater security and multi-system platform integration. Helpful? Danny Haydon Computer Operations Manager Chose Control-M We still use them all depending on which datacenter you refer to. Little Rock is primarily an ASG (ZEKE) user but we also support CA (CA7). New Berlin used CA (ESP) but is in the process of converting over to Control-M as the data center is consolidated into the Milwaukee data … Helpful? Carl Korody Operations Specialist Chose Control-M More robust on all counts. Control-M has more flexibility, interfaces with more products and has the ability to create your own interface to products. The out of the box setup has you up and running on the same day. The ability for the use of agents and executing jobs agentless … Helpful? EB Emmanuel Bantugan IT Infrastructure Services Lead Chose Control-M Control-M stacks well above. I definitely know that feature wise, [and based on the] stability of tool plus support in comparison to CA Workload Automation. Helpful? Mark Coons Infrastructure Analyst Chose Control-M We moved from an in-house product to Control-M. Obviously an in-house product is going to be easier to use that something off the shelf because it was written for our environment. The problem was a team of analysts had to be maintained to support it which the company was unable … Incentivized Helpful? Balachandra Kuppaswamy Production Support Analyst Chose Control-M The GUI is out-standing, very good compared to TWS or Autosys. It's fast and very reliable. The options such as: Alerts, Notifications, History, Reporting, made us select Control-M and not to forget the pricing, it's very competitive. Incentivized Helpful? DC Dave Campbell Senior System Administrator Chose Control-M I have been using this product for so long and it works so well we have not had the need to evaluate other job schedulers. I have occasionally looked to see what was out there but I have seen anything so far that would require me to go so far as to evaluate the products. Incentivized Helpful? Paul Robins Automation Specialist Chose Control-M Control-M provides true cross-platform integration without duplication, including service impact management. Control-M provides highly functional file transfer integration including pre and post processing command capabilities and centralised account management. Incentivized Helpful? SS Shiv Shivakumar customer service leader Chose Control-M control-M was the best in class for batch jobs on mainframe and hence went for it - later on it was broadened to work on Unix as well and hence leveraged this functionality Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Control-M We have had Control-M for over 20 years. At that time, we had been using CA-7 for 10 years and 100% of our production processing involved running batch on IBM-compatible mainframes. We evaluated Control-M, ZEKE, IBM, and one other product. While Control-M was the best of that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Control-M I just started learning and using Skybot just one month month ago, and I see some terminology is similar to Control-V 8, I have worked on v6.3, 6.4 and now 8. Well can't talk more about the differences but I found one good feature that is notification of calendar expiration, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Control-M TWS was part of our initial proof of concept and product review. Control-M was able to do everything we asked. At the time TWS was unable to provide the interface that we needed. We chose Control-M and have been pleased ever since. Incentivized Helpful? SS Sreedhar Sunkara Systems Analyst Chose Control-M We haven't tried anything different as we are fully satisfied with the Control-M product. Incentivized Helpful? Mark Francome Senior Systems Analyst Chose Control-M We last reviewed the market in 2001 (schedulers are long-term commitments!) and Control-M edged (by a very narrow margin) the Tivoli alternative, with Dollar Universe (now part of Automic) back in third place. We also tested the Tidal Software scheduler (now part of Cisco) but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Retiree Chose Control-M We selected Control-M by public auction, because we are a federal government institution. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro User friendly Pro Set up Pro Easy to use
Top Cons	Minus Upgrade process Minus Learning curve Minus Bit cumbersome

Features

Control-M

Workload Automation

Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
	Control-M 8.8 51 Ratings 7% above category average
Multi-platform scheduling	8.751 Ratings
Central monitoring	10.049 Ratings
Logging	7.750 Ratings
Alerts and notifications	8.351 Ratings
Analysis and visualization	8.748 Ratings
Application integration	9.348 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Control-M
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	ActiveBatch Workload Automation Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Redwood RunMyJobs Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Control-M
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (51 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.3 (6 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (6 ratings)
Availability	6.4 (1 ratings)
Performance	7.3 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (8 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.3 (5 ratings)
Configurability	7.3 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.3 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.3 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	7.3 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	7.3 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Control-M
Likelihood to Recommend	BMC Software Inc. Control-M is a reliable and well-developed product with excellent vendor support that updates and expands the software often and offers a cloud-based deployment choice. When there are many Batch processes in IT operations that need to be monitored and controlled to ensure IT services, Control-M is ideally suited for centralized workload automation and task management. Incentivized Angela Rogers Marketing Specialist Read full review
Pros	BMC Software Inc. Control-M provides a single, centralized interface for monitoring and managing all batch processes in the organization. Nothing is hidden or left unattended in a timely manner. The proper use of the BIM component has allowed the change of paradigm in the operation, adopting a proactive management instead of the typical reactive management in the event of production failures. The use of Forecast and production simulations allows you to identify bottlenecks and focus first on managing those failures that have the greatest impact on production SLAs. Control-M/Change Manager has arrived to shorten development cycles from requirements gathering to production testing. It has been a utility that monetizes the development of Jobs meshes. The GUI is capable of efficiently handling more than 80,000 jobs per day. This is certainly a challenge in designing a good user experience. I don't know if there is a reasonable limit to this. One of my clients runs more than 80,000 Jobs daily and the GUI remains smooth all the time. Job-As-Code is a DevOps accelerator that has just begun to be adopted. Its implementation will make workload management even more cost-effective. Raciel Hernández Barroso Senior Workload Automation Consultant Read full review
Cons	BMC Software Inc. As with most of the mainframe software products, documentation seems to be the weak link for the products - written by people and for people who already know what they need to do, not for people who are trying to figure how to use the product. We are a large JES3 mainframe shop. As with all vendors who still provide software for mainframe systems, software is generally designed and developed for JES2 and is frequently not fully tested in a JES3 environment before being shipped out. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	BMC Software Inc. It is a great product plain and simple. We've had Control-M for 20+ years and the support that BMC Software provides is really second to none. There is always a situation that someone can think of where I have to say, "No we can't do that", however I'm confident that we've been able to meet and most of the time exceed our end user expectations with what the product can offer them. Incentivized Zach Warren Infrastructure Engineer II / Control-M Read full review
Usability	BMC Software Inc. Control-M's overall usability is very good because it is simple to use. Control-M SelfService is an easy tool to give to some of the users who want to use a web interface. The training curve for most users is very short and most of the functions are very simple to figure out. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	BMC Software Inc. We've had issues with a server crashing. The latest issue has the option for high availability which should help with that. Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
Performance	BMC Software Inc. I've never seen a performance issue with Control-M. Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
Support Rating	BMC Software Inc. Although the product is very stable there have been a few incidents when I needed support. I have worked with technicians from all around the globe because of the rolling support. This gives me the quickest support when I need it most in those early hours of the morning. The technicians I have worked with have been very knowledgeable and if necessary got help when needed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	BMC Software Inc. It is a good approach to define a distributed architecture when you have multiple control-m servers. Oscar Narváez Del Rio Analytics and Automation Tools Manager - Perú & Chile Read full review
Alternatives Considered	BMC Software Inc. We last reviewed the market in 2001 (schedulers are long-term commitments!) and Control-M edged (by a very narrow margin) the Tivoli alternative, with Dollar Universe (now part of Automic) back in third place. We also tested the Tidal Software scheduler (now part of Cisco) but I cannot see that listed here. Control-M won out through reliability and cross-platform support. Since we made our choice it has become clear that Control-M has moved ahead of the alternatives. Incentivized Mark Francome Senior Systems Analyst Read full review
Scalability	BMC Software Inc. Control-M doesn't really use that many resources Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
Return on Investment	BMC Software Inc. I would expect this product to give a positive return on investment. Running jobs in cron for example would require a lot more scripting effort to ensure that the proper notifications are done on failures. With the built in functionality in Control-M the effort would be greatly reduced Incentivized DC Dave Campbell Senior System Administrator Read full review
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