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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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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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SaaS

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Cloud

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  • 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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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Oscar Narváez Del Rio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Control-M is a solid and stable platform and technology that allows task management, workload automation, and change management cycle with an integrated framework for developers working in batch process delivery. Control-M brings the capacity for centralized workload automation management with multi-tenancy and distributed architecture orchestrating all system components and agents as part of the platform. Business processes can be operated and visualized in real-time execution focusing on priority and urgency.
  • Change management for development cycle
  • Orchestration for batch processes
  • Platform performance and centralized management
  • Platform support
  • Agents logs could be indexed and stored on a centralized repository
  • Job as code is a new concept that requires more technical skills for developers
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.
Workload Automation (6)
93.33333333333334%
9.3
Multi-platform scheduling
100%
10.0
Central monitoring
100%
10.0
Logging
80%
8.0
Alerts and notifications
90%
9.0
Analysis and visualization
90%
9.0
Application integration
100%
10.0
  • Control critical process of the operations and business
  • Provide a development framework to improve delivery
  • Centralize task management and workload
Relationship with the partner, product features, and change manager for the development cycle.
  • Task Management
  • Workload automation
  • Business and IT Operations batch processes
  • Export information from Control-M to Grafana for better insights with dashboards
  • Control-M as a Service
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
According to platform components and multi-tenancy architecture.
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
It is a good approach to define a distributed architecture when you have multiple control-m servers.
Quick response and resolution.
Yes, platform is critical for the business and operations
Yes
Yes, it was escalated to development and they came up with a solution in a timely manner.
Platform architecture has clear documentation which provides administrators a detailed guide for platform configuration and support.
  • Workload automation interface
  • Control-m Server and root menu
  • logs analyisis
Yes
Movile interface has some limited features; however, it delivers a good user experience.
Gadi Ben-Avi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
All production jobs on z/OS (almost) are run buy Control-M. Control-M saves a lot of time and manpower, by running the production workload, letting people deal with development, maintenance and problem solving.
  • Runs jobs when they should.
  • Notify users when something goes wrong.
  • Provide information on previous runs.
  • The interface (On z/OS) is a bit clunky.
  • Installation and upgrades are a pain.
  • It is difficult to make mass changes.
The bigger the workload, the more a tool like Control-M is needed.
Workload Automation (6)
80%
8.0
Multi-platform scheduling
80%
8.0
Central monitoring
80%
8.0
Logging
80%
8.0
Alerts and notifications
80%
8.0
Analysis and visualization
80%
8.0
Application integration
80%
8.0
  • It lets us run more jobs in production.
  • Lets us create complex job streams.
  • TWS and ESP
When we got Control-M when there weren't other options. Converting to another system was evaluated, but not done.
BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar), IBM CICS, Adabas
10
Operations
operation design.
2
On the z/OS side, it's like any other ISV product, with some specialized knowledge and experience with the IOA installation and maintenance system called ICE.
On the open systems side, windows and linux knowledge is needed,
  • Runnin production workloads
  • Keeping track of what ran, did it run OK, and if not, getting the message to the right people.
  • A relatively easy way to make modifications.
  • Nothing that I can think of
  • Nothing that I can think of
The system works, it's great, and it integrates with other IOA products that we use.
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
Since Control-M started its life as an Israeli product, it is very common is Israel. In the beginning, when we had an issue, we could talk directly with the developers and solve problems faster.
We would make a list of workload automation products, the pros and cons of each one, create a short list, and evaluate each product on the short list.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
Implementation was done according to department.
Since the workload for each department is independent, it wasn't an issue.
Change management was minimal
None
  • Convincing the operations staff that this was a good idea, and they could relinquish some control.
  • It was a long time ago, I don't remember much
Do it slowly, start with simple workflows and go from there when you become more comfortable with the product.
  • no training
Formal training is always better, but it's not always available.
There are many many options at various levels.
Most of them are dealt with only when needed.
Not really.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
no
Support is great, usually, but I have to go through a third party, which makes responce slower.
No
I don't think the options exists
No
They always do.
Our problem is that we don't deal with BMC directly.
We first go through their reseller in Israel which try to help, and only if they can't, escalate the problem to BMC.
It's fairly easy to use, once you know what you're doing. New users might take a while to learn how to use all of the functions.
  • Monitoring jobs
  • Making mass changes
  • Installing and upgrading
Control-M doesn't really use that many resources.
We've had issues with a server crashing.
The latest issue has the option for high availability which should help with that.
I've never seen a performance issue with Control-M.
  • Other IOA products on z/OS
All IOA products work very well together, and seem like one product.
  • Not at this time
I've see many examples, but never used any of them
Check if someone else has done something similar.
it can save lots of time.
They wanted to sell. They gave all of the help they could
Support is usually great
Yes
The new release required a lot more resources. We had to upgrade the servers for it to work.
  • Using a current release.
  • Not sure. We're are the latest release.
No
No
Scott Kelm | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At [my] previous location, we managed EDI transactions through Control-M as well as automated billing and system monitoring. At my current location, we use Control-M to generate bills for most of our retail customers and to update collections data.
  • The UI is easy for the business to use to receive an instant status of the processes they care about.
  • Control-M works well in connecting to and running processes on many servers in our network.
  • The proactive notification of a process that may have issues is very nice to have.
  • We have not defined a process to move processes across multiple environments. That would be nice to have.
Control-M is excellent in an environment where many servers need to have a central point of organization for interdependent processes and multiple departments need viability into their operations.
Workload Automation (6)
98.33333333333334%
9.8
Multi-platform scheduling
100%
10.0
Central monitoring
100%
10.0
Logging
90%
9.0
Alerts and notifications
100%
10.0
Analysis and visualization
100%
10.0
Application integration
100%
10.0
  • We were able to restructure our licensing for a significant savings.
Control-M has a much simpler interface and UI than ActiveBatch.
No
haven't needed it
All my problems have been resolved in a timely manner.
No
Last year we had issues with too many sessions running. BMC Support was able to quickly identify our problem.
Frankie Lam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Control-M across the organization. We use it for workload automation and integrate it with other applications.
  • Ease of use
  • Graphical view of your entire organization workload
  • As it matures, the product gets better and more stable
  • The WLA tools should be made as a web base rather than thick client.
  • Built-in change manger should be part of the tool, not another add-on.
  • Agent deployment should be all automatic, base install then fixpack, and so on.
Its well suited for anywhere and anyone but it comes with a cost, it is quite pricey.
Workload Automation (6)
85%
8.5
Multi-platform scheduling
100%
10.0
Central monitoring
80%
8.0
Logging
80%
8.0
Alerts and notifications
80%
8.0
Analysis and visualization
80%
8.0
Application integration
90%
9.0
  • Not much since we don't charge our customer for workload automation, its all built in to the cost they paid for a general use of a server or LPAR.
  • CA7
Much better but again costs more.
1000
across the entire company
8
Control-M certified admin
  • automate all batch workload
  • use filewatcher to catch file and process a job
  • Control-M for DB is use heavily
  • we use the normal usage of control-m
  • not sure yet
I personally like it a lot
Yes
CA-7, we need a multi platform scheduler and Control-M for a good fit
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Usage and multi platform
none, still will get it
  • Implemented in-house
No
  • data consistency
  • agent connection
none
Yes
I think we have that now
They're good.
No
when there were never SSL and we asked for it. BMC did their best to get us SSL in less than 6 months
  • GUI
  • Connecting jobs
  • Mass updates
  • not much, they're all quite easy
  • upgrade
  • agent install
Yes
we don't use it right now
it's friendly enough
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