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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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- Central monitoring (49)10.0100%
- Multi-platform scheduling (51)8.787%
- Alerts and notifications (51)8.383%
- Logging (50)7.777%
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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
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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.
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Control-M Integrations
- Apache Airflow
- Microsoft Azure
- Alteryx Designer Cloud
- Azure Backup
- Google BigQuery
- Google Cloud Functions
- Google Cloud Dataflow
- Azure Databricks
- Automation Anywhere
- Amazon Athena
- Azure Machine Learning
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Apache Hadoop
- AWS Lambda
- Impala Open Distribution
- Amazon SageMaker
- Apache Hive
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
- Docker
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Apache Pig
- HashiCorp Terraform
- Apache Spark
- Snowflake
- UiPath Integration Service
- Talend Data Integration
- Oracle Linux
- Microsoft Power BI
- SQL Server Integration Services
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- PostgreSQL
- AWS Data Pipeline
- AWS Step Functions
- Google Cloud Dataplex
- Google Cloud Dataproc
- Google Cloud Deployment Manager
- Azure Resource Manager
- Azure Logic Apps
- Azure HDInsight
- Azure DevOps Services
- Azure Data Factory
- Databricks Lakehouse Platform
- AWS Glue
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Batch
- Amazon QuickSight
- Azure Batch
- CentOS Linux
- Db2
- SingleStore
- Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)
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Control-M Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, UNIX, z/OS, i5/OS |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries | Global support |
| Supported Languages | English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew |
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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.
Broadcom Automic Automation, CA Workload Automation, and IBM Workload Automation are common alternatives for Control-M.
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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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 few demands on the server's resources.
April 26, 2022
Control-M Workload and Task Management platform
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Relationship with the partner, product features, and change manager for the development cycle.
March 30, 2022
Control-M Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 tool which consume less resources from the server.
March 24, 2022
Control-M (z/OS onliy)
- TWS and ESP
When we got Control-M when there weren't other options. Converting to another system was evaluated, but not done.
April 13, 2021
Control-M's experience in Banking and Telcos
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Broadcom Automic Automation (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform), Automation Anywhere, UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Apache Hadoop and 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.
- Simulation and critical path management options.
- Resource automation and workload policy enforcement.
- For the great variety of integrations.
- Ease of running processes on agentless servers.
April 07, 2017
Partner opinion
- Visual Tom, Automator, Autosys, DSeries, VisualCron and $Universe
Control-M is the leader on workload automation. With 250 developers they always upgrade the product to develop new functionalities.
March 16, 2017
My Control-M/WLA Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
March 13, 2017
First 2 years with Control-M
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Developers are more eager to use Control-M as it has bigger market share.
March 10, 2017
Control-M has served me well for 12 years
Control-M has a much simpler interface and UI than ActiveBatch.
February 17, 2017
My Control-M review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- QlikView and Informatica
Much better UI and much better handling of dependencies in Control-M compared to other tools.
February 01, 2017
Control-M is a critical enterprise jobstream manager
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
January 31, 2017
Control-M Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 center.
January 20, 2017
Control-M at OLG
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- ActiveBatch, autosys and AutoSys
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 reduces unnecessary maintenance activities. Less expensive. Different licensing models that are flexible to suit your environment. Drag and drop schedule construction enables you to build complex job streams more efficiently
January 17, 2017
Control-M Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
September 08, 2016
A retired Schedulers review of Control-M (translation: no axe to grind)
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 to do.
So the previous software was more efficient and easier to use. But that was not considered when the change was made.
If there were other products consider I would not know.
So the previous software was more efficient and easier to use. But that was not considered when the change was made.
If there were other products consider I would not know.
August 13, 2016
Control-M, the best WLA Tool
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.
July 06, 2016
Control M review
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.
July 01, 2016
Control-M - True enterprise scheduling
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.
Control-M provides highly functional file transfer integration including pre and post processing command capabilities and centralised account management.
July 01, 2016
BMC - control M automation software
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
- CA-7
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 lot, it was not the robust or mature product that we see today. Unfortunately the conversion from CA-7 to Control-M was more mandated/motivated by non-technical criteria, and the conversion was not well received or supported by operations personnel, who made little or no effort to minimize the disruption of the transition.
Over the years, Control-M has become a strong product that I would recommend with no reservations.
Several months after converting from CA-7, we saw a demo of another product, which was to later become CA-ESP.
June 23, 2016
Control-M is gromming year by year
- Skybot
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, which is a strong feature.
June 23, 2016
Control-M Rocks
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.
June 22, 2016
Control-M is a great tool for scheduling needs
We haven't tried anything different as we are fully satisfied with the Control-M product.
June 22, 2016
Best of breed and moving farther ahead
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.
We selected Control-M by public auction, because we are a federal government institution.