Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Control-M
Score 7.3 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
Nintex Process Platform
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Nintex offers a platform that helps companies discover, automate, and optimize business processes.N/A
Pricing
Control-MNintex Process Platform
Editions & Modules
On-Premise
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SaaS
Contact Sales
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Offerings
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Control-MNintex Process Platform
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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Top Pros
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Features
Control-MNintex Process Platform
Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
Control-M
8.8
51 Ratings
7% above category average
Nintex Process Platform
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Multi-platform scheduling8.751 Ratings00 Ratings
Central monitoring10.049 Ratings00 Ratings
Logging7.750 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and notifications8.351 Ratings00 Ratings
Analysis and visualization8.748 Ratings00 Ratings
Application integration9.348 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Control-M
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Ratings
Nintex Process Platform
7.3
172 Ratings
11% below category average
Dashboards00 Ratings7.5159 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings7.4165 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings6.9137 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Control-M
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Nintex Process Platform
7.4
236 Ratings
13% below category average
Process designer00 Ratings8.1213 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings5.021 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings7.8186 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings7.6169 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings8.243 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings6.014 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings8.4211 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings7.8173 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Control-M
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Nintex Process Platform
8.9
18 Ratings
8% above category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings8.918 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Control-M
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Nintex Process Platform
10.0
22 Ratings
21% above category average
Content management00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
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User Ratings
Control-MNintex Process Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(51 ratings)
8.3
(272 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.3
(6 ratings)
8.2
(32 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(6 ratings)
8.3
(21 ratings)
Availability
6.4
(1 ratings)
8.9
(7 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.7
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(8 ratings)
6.7
(22 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.3
(5 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Configurability
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.8
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.8
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.8
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.7
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.7
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Control-MNintex Process Platform
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.
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Nintex
Nintex is best suited when processes are drawed by the business and then can be furter enhanced by IT professionals. When only used by business units we see that there are some lose ends in processes and some bagic process knowledge is needed. Therefore it is wise that the persons in the business who will use Nintex have some basic knowledge on how to set up business processes
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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.
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Nintex
  • Easily build approval process using email and assign a task actions in Nintex Workflow
  • Easily manage security at item level with O365 permission action in Nintex Workflow
  • Easily use Rule in Nintex Form to build the Input Form and manage the events
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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.
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Nintex
  • Adding Machine learning features like the "Image and Text Automation" component, which allows bots to extract data from unstructured sources like scanned documents or PDFs.
  • Natural language processing (NLP) features to understand and interpret human language, which can be useful for tasks like customer service or data entry. mostly for middle east countries where Arabic language is used.
  • Integration with external systems where many industries uses their own legacy systems and they need RPA bot to interact with their systems as well.
  • Adding More OCR tools for Document data extraction and dynamic content.
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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.
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Nintex
We are currently investigating which collaboration platform best suits our needs. Chances are that we move to SharePoint Online and then we're going to also consider the microsoft power platform (power automate and power apps) to develop forms and workflows. Aspecially the pricing model for the cloud is currently a blocking factor to go for the Nintex solution in the Cloud.
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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.
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Nintex
Based on the on-prem experience with this tool, I believe that they have a lot of potential to help the online version catch up to where the on-prem left off. Nintex developed their online version and it is not as fully formed or capable compared to the on-prem version, and the licensing model scales back what we would have liked to be an expansion or at least continuous improvement of existing flows. It is also not near as user friendly specifically to non-developers and has an uncanny similarity to Microsoft Flow in the online instance. Consistent with my reviews of the tool - I believe they have some good approaches to design thinking that, if translated well from on-prem to online, could make this a clear winner again.
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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.
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Nintex
The Nintex Process Platform has never crashed or had any availability issues during my usage. However there was an issue that was of my own making that caused a slowdown of the system. I had set up a process to run once a day and check for employees on a list that had certain parameters selected, and for some reason that I had to troubleshoot, the process instead ran constantly, which filled the cache quickly. I ended up having to dismantle that process so the system didn't crash.
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Performance
BMC Software Inc.
I've never seen a performance issue with Control-M.
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Nintex
Unlike any other process automation product out there. Not only is it a low-code, easy to use tool for building processes in environments like SharePoint or Salesforce, they have really started to expand their tool-set by offering tools to manage other things like process mapping, RPA, mobile,etc.
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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.
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Nintex
The support team works as fast as they can and they are usually fast to solver the issues. Sometimes they need more time to solve one of them because our workflows and so on are more complex than usual clients.
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In-Person Training
BMC Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
Nintex
The trainer addressed the smallest queries in a friendly and timely manner; He walked us through all the necessary products we were using
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Online Training
BMC Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
Nintex
I used the Nintex training software, it was easy to watch and follow along. It didn't go too fast and was descriptive enough to understand what the steps needed were in order to produce efficient workflows and user friendly forms.
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Implementation Rating
BMC Software Inc.
It is a good approach to define a distributed architecture when you have multiple control-m servers.
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Nintex
test runs for key persons to insure the system is set up prior to rolling out I think the platform is good, I think the roll out and the local implantations is where we are failing as a company in using Nintex
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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.
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Nintex
It's much more reasonably priced and we were able to actually experience the platform for a bit before we made a decision. And by the time our demo was finished we had already started depending on it for some of our processes so it would've been very hard to separate from it
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Scalability
BMC Software Inc.
Control-M doesn't really use that many resources
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Nintex
The scalability is really bottlenecked by the imagination of the user. I was able to make processes for my own personal usage, making my daily tasks easier. I was also able to make processes that affected hundreds of employees, making large standardization and efficiency gains. So either way, the system is used the same way, and I was the limiting factor.
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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
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Nintex
  • We have saved our company thousands of dollars by creating our own customer support system rather than using a 3rd party tool.
  • The ability to generate documents/PDFs in workflows has solved a great number of process issues for us and groups who had previously been using paper documents.
  • Automating many permissions updates through workflows has been a huge time saver for repetitive processes.
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ScreenShots

Nintex Process Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Nintex Automation Cloud is a cloud-based platform that offers capabilities to build automation and process-focused applications.Screenshot of Nintex Insights gives visibility into metrics and performance KPIs across all processes.Screenshot of Establishes total visibility and control over enterprise processes with Nintex Process Manager. Includes visual mapping and management software to encourage company-wide collaboration, increase accountability, and improve processes.Screenshot of With Nintex Forms, the users can create dynamic online forms to capture and submit accurate and current data. Its design canvas, drag-and-drop controls, and advanced business logic make it easy to customize forms for various business needs.