Control-M

Score9.4 out of 10

308 Reviews and Ratings

What is Control-M?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Multi-platform scheduling
Multi-platform scheduling is the ability to centrally manage a business process from end-to-end
Category average: 9.1
Central monitoring
A central monitoring dashboard provides data on trends and forecasts
Category average: 8.9
Alerts and notifications
Alerts and notifications enabling management by exception
Category average: 8.7

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: 8.5
Analysis and visualization
Analysis and visualization tools provide clear understanding of critical errors and helps prioritize errors
Category average: 8.2

Robert Stinnett View profile

Sr. Analyst in Information Technology at CARFAX (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Automate business processes and workflows across a variety of systems, both on-prem and off, as well as interact with services and other third party tools. It allows us to get the single pane of glass vision across processes that are critical to the business. It also allows us to integrate with existing systems and vendors without having to reinvent the wheel or spend developer time having to write custom code.

Pros

File Transfers / Data Transfers
Integration with Third Party Systems, Providers and Cloud Services
Integration with DevOps toolsets and practices
Ability to manage and monitor workflows that span multiple systems
Ability to audit and track changes to workflows for compliance

Cons

Application Integrator should be redesigned as more of a studio/dev environment
Need to add the ability to "on demand" or "free form" file transfers - get away from the profile concept for that, or at least make it optional.

Return on Investment

Helps deliver outcomes faster by being able to quickly design workflows using pre-built integrations
Being able to use Jobs as Code/Automation API speeds development time of workflows and integrates better with existing toolchains
Single Pane of Glass helps reduce the time to track down issues when something goes wrong in a workflow

Usability

Deepjyoti Bhowmick View profile

Senior Data Engineer in Information Technology at Accenture (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used Control-M for more than 3 years as a scheduler in data warehousing projects; it is feature-rich and stable. Business needs an all-rounder scheduling tool for most job orchestration, and thus has chosen Control-M. We are using it to schedule Informatica, Unix Shell script, Database, and other script jobs.

Pros

The good thing is that there are so many connectors available. Control-M provides lots of features, and we are using almost 60 to 70% of them. Control-M is providing us with so much capability to use during our daily problem-solving.
Most of the job creation is very simple and quick and worked as per expectations.
Testing and debugging are also very easy, and you can test multiple scenarios using temporary changes during job runs.
Log and output presentations are also very good, short and detailed.
To monitor specific job net, we can create viewpoint, which can be use on daily basis.

Cons

When I joined this project and was very new to Control-M, there was one problem that even the seniors sometimes faced. Suppose you are using Informatica; there are many Informatica developers in the market, or other tools that are well-known to everyone. Even though Control-M is used by many people, the documentation at the beginning was very hard to find on Google. This is why we had to reach out to experienced people, and it was a tough job for us because a few functionalities were not properly documented.
Sometimes when we change over, there are multiple domains in Control-M, such as Planning, Monitoring, History, and Forecast Tools. When we hop from one domain to another, sometimes we open a job, and the detail dialog box or detail window fails to open.
Some hidden features are not properly documented in Control-M itself, or are documented but not properly presented with examples. This is a problem. Sometimes we are forced to connect with senior developers who have used it for 5 to 6 years or more to learn about it.

Return on Investment

Control-M reduces the number of developers needed for orchestration. We have chosen this tool because it is easy to use, compact, and supports multi-platform integration.
The Dev Team and the OPS Team are so happy with this tool. It saves time, and time saves money. Around a 30% increase in productivity.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

AutoSys Workload Automation

Other Software Used

Oracle Database, Google BigQuery, dbt

Vishal Singh

Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology at Happilo (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Control-M for our business for the last 3 years, and now this software automatically syncs our bookings from the website and WhatsApp. The tool also helps us schedule daily tasks for staff in the office and ensures we can send follow-up reminders to customers every day.

Pros

The software manages our stock and sends an alert to our system whenever inventory is low.
Control-M helps us in generating automatic invoices everyday for our clients.
Control-M also helps us ensure who is doing what and that all jobs are assigned equally.

Cons

I mostly use it on my mobile device, and the navigation is a little Complex and not beginner-friendly.
During initial setup, the software will require a guided configuration to function properly.
Plug and play integrations are little difficult to execute.

Return on Investment

As the software can handle most monitoring tasks, we now need a smaller team for detailed monitoring.
The software has also reduced our operational hours, and it is now easy to access billing reports and other business documents.
With Control-M, we can quickly identify issues and make better business decisions.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

BMC AMI Ops

Other Software Used

BMC AMI Ops

Lakshmi Harika Vanga View profile

Associate Projects in Corporate at Cognizant (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We will use Control-M as an automation tool to orchestrate and manage data workflows across different source systems. Control-M is very user friendly we are able to schedule and run our workflows and it also helps us to notify when ever we encounter a failure

Pros

Control -M is a very good interface where users can easily schedule the jobs
Control-M is useful to easily inter connect our down stream jobs and executes it in batch wise without custom scripts
Control-M helps us to load historical data and jobs can be ran across linux and windows

Cons

In Control-M, it is difficult to check job history and also cloning the workflows is very complex
In Control-M, creation of jobs and folders using json code is not user friendly.
Control-M is great for batch wise scheduling jobs but not for real time workflows

Return on Investment

It automates 80 % of our manual job scheduling tasks across cloud
It reduced new workflow deployment time from 2-3 days to less than 2 hours using Automation API
It also reduced scheduling errors and significant cost reduction

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Apache Airflow, Azure Automation and AutoSys Workload Automation

Other Software Used

Apache Airflow, AutoSys Workload Automation, Azure Automation

Shivam Dhang

Manager IT infra in Information Technology at Softcell Technologies (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this to ensure that all our jobs are running on time and are meeting the business timelines and also through this software we have the complete visibility of the scheduled jobs whether its running on time or may get delayed.

This software is used by all our of teams within the organization for sales to HR and from engineering to support teams for a smooth and controlled job flows.

Pros

Integration with various existing products makes it a single go-to platform.
As we are from a service-based company, Control-M allows us to monitor all customer jobs from a single dashboard and alerts us early if a workflow is running late or past the deadlines.
Reduces manual work by automation.
Detailed Audit trail logs help us to be more secure and compliant.

Cons

Quite outdated user interface
Technical customer support should have been more efficient
Upgrades are time-consuming and sometimes affect production.

Return on Investment

This software has helped our organization a lot. It has helped us to save time, reduce mistakes, and help us deliver faster to our clients. By automation and monitoring various jobs for all our clients in one place, it cuts down manual work and has lowered our operational costs.
This software has improved our accuracy through automated jobs that run the same way every time. This makes fewer errors, fewer delays, and better service provided to our customers.
This software makes our work run smoothly, so we can handle more clients with fewer staff. This helps our business grow and be more financially efficient.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ActiveBatch Workload Automation, Broadcom Automic Automation and Apache Airflow

Other Software Used

Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT, Fortinet FortiGate, CyberArk Privileged Access Management

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Top Performing Features

Multi-platform scheduling

Central monitoring

Alerts and notifications

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Application integration

Logging

Analysis and visualization

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