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Feature Set Ratings
Workload Automation

8.7
Control-M
87%
Tableau Server
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Control-M ranks higher in 6/6 features
Control-M ranks higher in 6/6 features
Multi-platform scheduling

8.5
85%
50 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Central monitoring

10.0
100%
48 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Logging

6.8
68%
49 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Alerts and notifications

8.5
85%
50 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Analysis and visualization

8.5
85%
47 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Application integration

10.0
100%
47 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting

Control-M
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
8.5
Tableau Server
85%
Tableau Server ranks higher in 3/3 features
Tableau Server ranks higher in 3/3 features
Pixel Perfect reports

N/A
0 Ratings
9.1
91%
29 Ratings
Customizable dashboards

N/A
0 Ratings
8.6
86%
92 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates

N/A
0 Ratings
7.7
77%
79 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting

Control-M
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
8.2
Tableau Server
82%
Tableau Server ranks higher in 4/4 features
Tableau Server ranks higher in 4/4 features
Drill-down analysis

N/A
0 Ratings
8.4
84%
93 Ratings
Formatting capabilities

N/A
0 Ratings
6.2
62%
91 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages

N/A
0 Ratings
8.6
86%
58 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration

N/A
0 Ratings
9.4
94%
87 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling

Control-M
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
8.5
Tableau Server
85%
Tableau Server ranks higher in 5/5 features
Tableau Server ranks higher in 5/5 features
Publish to Web

N/A
0 Ratings
9.9
99%
83 Ratings
Publish to PDF

N/A
0 Ratings
9.2
92%
82 Ratings
Report Versioning

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
68 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling

N/A
0 Ratings
9.2
92%
75 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers

N/A
0 Ratings
5.1
51%
9 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization

Control-M
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
8.3
Tableau Server
83%
Tableau Server ranks higher in 3/3 features
Tableau Server ranks higher in 3/3 features
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

N/A
0 Ratings
8.7
87%
84 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

N/A
0 Ratings
8.7
87%
83 Ratings
Predictive Analytics

N/A
0 Ratings
7.5
75%
62 Ratings
Access Control and Security

Control-M
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
8.2
Tableau Server
82%
Tableau Server ranks higher in 4/4 features
Tableau Server ranks higher in 4/4 features
Multi-User Support (named login)

N/A
0 Ratings
8.2
82%
91 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model

N/A
0 Ratings
8.2
82%
88 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
80%
90 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)

N/A
0 Ratings
8.4
84%
60 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities

Control-M
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
7.8
Tableau Server
78%
Tableau Server ranks higher in 3/3 features
Tableau Server ranks higher in 3/3 features
Responsive Design for Web Access

N/A
0 Ratings
6.7
67%
75 Ratings
Mobile Application

N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
80%
60 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

N/A
0 Ratings
8.6
86%
66 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

Control-M
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
7.5
Tableau Server
75%
Tableau Server ranks higher in 6/6 features
Tableau Server ranks higher in 6/6 features
REST API

N/A
0 Ratings
9.3
93%
39 Ratings
Javascript API

N/A
0 Ratings
9.6
96%
36 Ratings
iFrames

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
39 Ratings
Java API

N/A
0 Ratings
5.5
55%
7 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)

N/A
0 Ratings
6.1
61%
9 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)

N/A
0 Ratings
4.6
46%
7 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Control-M is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Support Rating
- Tableau Server is rated higher in 4 areas: Likelihood to Renew, Availability, Performance, Implementation Rating
Likelihood to Recommend

10.0
Control-M
100%
50 Ratings
7.8
Tableau Server
78%
109 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

8.2
Control-M
82%
6 Ratings
10.0
Tableau Server
100%
20 Ratings
Usability

9.1
Control-M
91%
6 Ratings
7.6
Tableau Server
76%
16 Ratings
Availability

6.4
Control-M
64%
1 Rating
9.0
Tableau Server
90%
18 Ratings
Performance

7.3
Control-M
73%
1 Rating
8.1
Tableau Server
81%
16 Ratings
Support Rating

9.1
Control-M
91%
15 Ratings
7.2
Tableau Server
72%
29 Ratings
In-Person Training

Control-M
N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
Tableau Server
80%
4 Ratings
Online Training

Control-M
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
Tableau Server
90%
9 Ratings
Implementation Rating

8.2
Control-M
82%
8 Ratings
9.1
Tableau Server
91%
26 Ratings
Product Scalability

7.3
Control-M
73%
1 Rating
Tableau Server
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Control-M
The use of Control-M is recommended for the following circumstances:
- Workload and batch processing automation.
- Backend automation based processes
- Silent execution of processes and no human intervention
- Execution of workflows that are too complex for a human to handle
- Massive operations on massive amounts of data
- Invasive, with access to the data layer and business logic
- Processes with focus on security, efficiency and reliability
- When you want to predict the duration of each job and of the complete flow
- In critical path management
- For proactive alerting of deviations and possible job failures.
- For workload simulation
- Capability for resource automation
Senior Workload Automation Consultant
Axity S.AInformation Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees
Tableau Server
Tableau Server is well suited for a data warehouse build and handling big data. Tableau data aggregation, transformation, clustering capability is powerful and easy to implement. The choice of charts and visualisation tools is outstanding. Customisation and dynamic data visualisation capability is superb. The user interface takes some time getting used to.

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 11-50 employeesPros
Control-M
- Control-M provides an easy-to-use and easy-to-interpret interface for users, with most of the screen options and field names being self-explanatory. The on-screen options provide for a full range of functionality for automating batch production requirements, with multiple options and flexibility.
- The vendor provides Control-M a wide range of utilities for extracting information from the dataset and providing with a minimal amount of training required for use.
- As the systems programmer for Control-M on the mainframe, the ease of installation is one of the nicest features. The installation is panel driven and can be used by a relatively inexperienced technician to install successfully in a matter of several hours.
- Again, as the systems programmer, I appreciate the level of expertise of the technical support personnel. Over the past 20+ years, I have come to know them well and find them to be knowledgeable and willing to provide assistance for any and all queries.
- The developers have always been willing to listen to requests for new functionality and enhancements to existing functionality and are working to have the same type of functionality across all platforms.
- We are a large mainframe shop, still heavily dependent on mainframes to support and develop new software for the mainframe.
- We have worked closely with BMC to participate in the beta testing program and have had the opportunity to have an impact on software development.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 10,001+ employeesTableau Server
- It's good at doing what it is designed for: accessing visualizations without having to download and open a workbook in Tableau Desktop. The latter would be a very inefficient method for sharing our metrics, so I am glad that we have Tableau Server to serve this function.
- Publishing to Tableau Server is quick and easy. Just a few clicks from Tableau Desktop and a few seconds of publishing through an average speed network, and the new visualizations are live!
- Seeing details on who has viewed the visualization and when. This is something particularly useful to me for trying to drive adoption of some new pages, so I really appreciate the granularity provided in Tableau Server

Verified User
Program Manager in Customer Service
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
Control-M
- 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.
Senior Systems Analyst
The Stamford Group (Stamford Consultants and Talentis)Banking, 201-500 employees
Tableau Server
- Tableau Server has had some issue handling some of our larger data sets. Our extract refreshes fail intermittently with no obvious error that we can fix
- Tableau Server has been hard to work with before they launched their new Rest API, which is also a little tricky to work with
Data Engineer
QualtricsComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Pricing Details
Control-M
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
—Control-M Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Tableau Server
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$12 Per User Per Month
Tableau Server Editions & Modules
Edition
Creator | $70.001 |
---|---|
Explorer | $35.001 |
Viewer | $12.001 |
- Per User Per Month
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Control-M
Control-M 8.2
Based on 6 answers
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.
Infrastructure Engineer II / Control-M
UnumInsurance, 10,001+ employees
Tableau Server
Tableau Server 10.0
Based on 20 answers
It simply is used all the time by more and more people.Migrating to something else would involve lots of work and lots of training.The renewal fee being fair, it simply isn't worth migrating to a different tool for now.
Consultant BI senior/Administrateur - spécialité SAS
Prospective MG inc.Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees
Usability
Control-M
Control-M 9.1
Based on 6 answers
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Packaging and Containers Company, 10,001+ employeesTableau Server
Tableau Server 7.6
Based on 16 answers
Tableau Server is unbeatable at creating easy to use, interactive dashboards for busy executives. The software also saves time for the busy analyst that is tired of always using Excel. Tableau Server is a head and shoulders improvement over Excel.
Owner, previous CEO
Econometric StudiosFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees
Reliability and Availability
Control-M
Control-M 6.4
Based on 1 answer
We've had issues with a server crashing.The latest issue has the option for high availability which should help with that.
z/OS system Programmer
MalamInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
Tableau Server
Tableau Server 9.0
Based on 18 answers
Our instance of Tableau Server was hosted on premises (I believe all instances are) so if there were any outages it was normally due to scheduled maintenance on our end. If the Tableau server ever went down, a quick restart solved most issues

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Management Consulting Company, 10,001+ employeesPerformance
Control-M
Control-M 7.3
Based on 1 answer
I've never seen a performance issue with Control-M.
z/OS system Programmer
MalamInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
Tableau Server
Tableau Server 8.1
Based on 16 answers
While there are definitely cases where a user can do things that will make a particular worksheet or dashboard run slowly, overall the performance is extremely fast. The user experience of exploratory analysis particularly shines, there's nothing out there with the polish of Tableau.
Quality Management Data Analyst
Southern Maine Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees
Support Rating
Control-M
Control-M 9.1
Based on 15 answers
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Packaging and Containers Company, 10,001+ employeesTableau Server
Tableau Server 7.2
Based on 29 answers
We have consistently had highly satisfactory results every time we've reached out for help. Our contractor, used for Tableau server maintenance and dashboard development is very technically skilled. When he hits a roadblock on how to do something with Tableau, the support staff have provided timely and useful guidance. He frequently compares it to Cognos and says that while Cognos has capabilities Tableau doesn't, the bottom line value for us is a no-brainer
Program Manager
Department of Health & HospitalsGovernment Administration, 1001-5000 employees
In-Person Training
Control-M
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Server
Tableau Server 8.0
Based on 4 answers
In our case, they hired a private third party consultant to train our dept. It was extremely boring and felt like it dragged on. Everything I learned was self taught so I was not really paying attention. But I do think that you can easily spend a week on the tool and go over every nook and cranny. We only had the consultant in for a day or two.
BI Analyst
Kaiser Foundation Health PlanUtilities, 10,001+ employees
Online Training
Control-M
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Server
Tableau Server 9.0
Based on 9 answers
The Tableau website is full of videos that you can follow at your own pace. As a very small company with a Tableau install, access to these free resources was incredibly useful to allowing me to implement Tableau to its potential in a reasonable and proportionate manner.
MD
InterWorksComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Implementation Rating
Control-M
Control-M 8.2
Based on 8 answers
It is a good approach to define a distributed architecture when you have multiple control-m servers.
Analytics and Automation Tools Manager - Perú & Chile
EntelTelecommunications, 5001-10,000 employees
Tableau Server
Tableau Server 9.1
Based on 26 answers
Implementation was over the phone with the vendor, and did not go particularly well. Again, think this was our fault as our integration and IT oversight was poor, and we made errors. Would they have happened had a vendor been onsite? Not sure, probably not, but we probably wouldn't have paid for that either

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Leisure, Travel & Tourism Company, 1001-5000 employeesAlternatives Considered
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.
Senior System Administrator
Teranet Inc.Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Tableau Server
Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, and model data is superior to Tableau. Tableau still has the lead in some visualizations, but Power BI's rise is evidenced by its ever-increasing position in the leadership section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Architecture & Planning Company, 1001-5000 employeesScalability
Control-M
Control-M 7.3
Based on 1 answer
Control-M doesn't really use that many resources
z/OS system Programmer
MalamInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
Tableau Server
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Control-M
- While I cannot share specific numbers I can say that Control-M has provided a level of scheduling and integration over the system it replaced that has increased productivity and increased reliably in our system. It has reduced the number of hours spent on monitoring and troubleshooting jobs, on a per job basis.
.NET Team Lead
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance GroupInsurance, 201-500 employees
Tableau Server
- Tableau does take dedicated FTE to create and analyze the data. It's too complex (and powerful) a product not to have someone dedicated to developing with it.
- There are some significant setup for the server product.
- Once sever setup is complete, it's largely "fire and forget" until an update is necessary. The server update process is cumbersome.

Verified User
Executive in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees