Item: Control-M
Rating: 9
Author: Balachandra Kuppaswamy

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Control-M version 8 to execute jobs in SAP (R/3 and Business warehouse) jobs, script jobs in Unix and a Windows platform. Mainly it is being used by SAP users and some TED (our internal data warehouse) users. it was helpful in automating many things.

Pros and Cons

The GUI is very good
BIM is very helpful

In the monitoring domain, please enable users to modify things like owner, set to dummy (options which are grayed out must be opened).
Just like we have folders under home, please create some thing like jobs where-in we put in the job name then select it and run them. This make easy in an organization like us where we get a lot of requests to just run the jobs.

Return on Investment

On the positive, the alerts and notifications option have helped us a lot.

Alternatives Considered

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.

Other Software Used

BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Users and Roles

400 - we have users from SAP, Oracle, Hadoop, Unix & Windows using the Control-M Version 8

Support Headcount Required

15

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Overall Satisfaction with Control-M