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Control-M

Overview

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.

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Recent Reviews

Control-M Review

10 out of 10
March 30, 2022
Currently, in our project, we are using Control-M to schedule and automate the regular jobs. We have installed the Control-M agent on our …
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Control-M at Navistar

10 out of 10
March 22, 2017
Control-M is the enterprise-wide standard workload automation solution at our company. We have over 20,000 jobs scheduled each day across …
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My Control-M/WLA Review

9 out of 10
March 16, 2017
Control-M is being used by our systems and operations departments. We run jobs of all sorts from many installed systems and it addresses …
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Control-M Review

8 out of 10
January 31, 2017
Control-M is used to schedule thousands of jobs each day for our core banking products in one of our strategic data centers. This consists …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Central monitoring (49)
    10.0
    100%
  • Multi-platform scheduling (51)
    8.7
    87%
  • Alerts and notifications (51)
    8.3
    83%
  • Logging (50)
    7.7
    77%
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Pricing

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On-Premise

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On Premise

SaaS

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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

How to Integrate Apache Airflow and Control-M

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Orchestrating Multi-Cloud Data Workflows with Control-M

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MFT with Control M

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Features

Workload Automation

Workload automation tools manage event-based scheduling and resource management across a wide variety of applications, databases and architectures

8.8
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

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. Control-M simplifies workflow complexity with a single end-to-end enterprise view, and decentralized and targeted self-service interfaces for developers, data and cloud engineers, business users, and IT Operations teams. Control-M also provides a set of out-of-the-box integrations for the latest application, data, and cloud technologies.

Control-M Features

Workload Automation Features

  • Supported: Multi-platform scheduling
  • Supported: Central monitoring
  • Supported: Logging
  • Supported: Alerts and notifications
  • Supported: Analysis and visualization
  • Supported: Application integration

Additional Features

  • Supported: SLA Management
  • Supported: Data pipeline orchestration
  • Supported: Hybrid and multi cloud workflow orchestration
  • Supported: Jobs-as-Code and DevOps support
  • Supported: Self-service interfaces
  • Supported: Conversion tool
  • Supported: Workload archiving
  • Supported: Self-healing and remediation
  • Supported: Standards in production

Control-M Videos

Giving Organizations Freedom within the Orchestration Framework. Business modernization is about delivering innovation. But to maximize innovative prowess, organizations need a platform powerful enough to give employees across the company freedom to drive modernization initiat...
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Control-M Overview Control-M simplifies application and data workflow orchestration on premises and hybrid environments. With a unified view, Control-M is used build, define, schedule, manage, and monitor production workflows, ensuring, reliability, and improving SLAs.
How Control-M can orchestrate critical SAP and non-SAP workflows together in a single view, across complex cloud and hybrid environments.

Control-M Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, UNIX, z/OS, i5/OS
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesGlobal support
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Central monitoring highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Control-M are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Angela Rogers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Oscar Narváez Del Rio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Control-M is a mature and solid product with outstanding vendor support that continuously improves the product and works on a cloud option. Control-M is well suited for centralized workload automation and task management when IT operations have a significant number of batch processes that need monitoring and control to guarantee IT services.
March 30, 2022

Control-M Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are supporting a client where we need to copy user-provided data to a centralized server. We have installed Control-M agent and it is now doing this work for us. When new entries have been made by a user it identifies and starts copying the new data to the centralized server effectively.
Raciel Hernández Barroso | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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
Chris Clark | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is truly an Enterprise WLA solution as there are very many different capabilities of the product from file transfer to executing batch files to running SQL queries or stored procedures. With that said, it might be overkill for smaller organizations or environments where there isn't the need for backend automation or utilizing a large infrastructure.
March 22, 2017

Control-M at Navistar

Todd Klessner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Control-M is a very flexible and scalable solution which should fit most every workload automation need. We use several of the control modules such as, Control-M for PeopleSoft, Control-M for Hadoop and Control-M for Databases, just to name a few. We [have been] extremely pleased with BMC's Control-M and their support for years.
Jeff Drew | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Control-M is very well suited for a global, multi-system platform where huge amounts of data are processed, collected and retained. It does not seem to be a slave to a particular OS or server platform. It generally works everywhere and with any computer system. It may be overkill for some small, unique, specialty businesses where a native scheduler would suffice.
January 31, 2017

Control-M Review

Danny Haydon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Control-M has been a good fit in environments that have a lot of activity and schedule a lot of work. For the most part, Control-M provides the functionality to meet or exceed the performance and reliability our company requires to meet deliverables.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Works really well for companies that need to support different platforms like the mainframe, open systems, etc. Not well suited for companies that like to give total control to their developers through the web interface as self-service has several issues.
January 20, 2017

Control-M at OLG

Carl Korody | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The most effective element is the ability to visualize and manage job streams top-down, left-to-right job flows and all identify conditions required prior to a job release and the impact of a successful and unsuccessful job. Another effective element is utilizing Workload Change Manager which establishes an extremely effective interaction with developers and schedulers.
Mark Coons | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Control-M would be very good for small or medium size companies. Large companies (like the one I came from) not so much. Maintaining your schedules is a daunting task in large companies. It requires a fair number of people and a lot of documentation (about processing relationships). (BMC might want to look into the processing relationships documentation issue to see if they could help.)


Control-M's documentation on how to use the product is very thin.
Balachandra Kuppaswamy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Extraction: In TWS, the extraction of a stream is very readable. Whatever option is selected/used in TWS, the composer command extracts those only and makes it easy to share with the users. But in Control-M, the xml file is huge. It displays all the options available and this makes it difficult for the users to understand. Introduce a special option just to extract what is there in the folder in a very user readable format like txt.
July 06, 2016

Control M review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have not seen a situation so far that Control-M would not be well suited for. Control-M is very versatile and can handle a lot of situations. I could see Control-M having issues with running dozens of jobs at the same time but I would expect that to be a rare situation for anybody.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For our purposes, it is well suited. The learning curve for new users to develop a basic level of competence is relatively easy to accomplish. While the vendor has introduced many nice features since we started using the product (BIM and Forecast to name two that I would like to see our users take more advantage of), the basic product has remained readily accessible for users.
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