Control-M newbie, but impressed
March 27, 2017
Control-M newbie, but impressed
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Control-M
Control-M currently has a small footprint, but with the move to v9 we are looking to fully leverage the automation capabilities as well as Self Service and WCM to make it available across the entire organization. This will address the needs for off hours work and free up IT staff time to complete other projects/tasks.
- Using AFT, sending files to customers is automated and can be customized for success, failure, etc. allowing visibility into the process for all involved
- Self Service is a powerful addition as it allows jobs to be setup and available to users via the web. You can have granularity into the jobs then as access is assigned to users based on their roles, allowing the ability to order the job, or maybe even just monitor the progress.
- Workload Change Manager is going to give us the ability to allow our developers to implement Control-M into the design and coding stages instead of after the fact. This will save time as they will be able to see the end results right away and make adjustments if necessary without having to wait for a scheduler to make the changes. This also allows us to promote from lower environments with some oversight and control. This will be the biggest takeaway for us moving to v9.
- The ability to set default view settings would be a nice add as it would allow the admin to better control the environment for each user role/level of access. This would be especially helpful when it comes to differing environments (dev/test/etc.)
- The licensing structure could be better laid out. Typically when purchasing a licensing suite, you get the full offering for that product, but that is not currently the case for Control-M.
- The ability to setup multiple site customizations and associate them with the access level/role of the user would be something I would prefer to move to the top of the list of things to be done differently as this would allow better customization for web access by eliminating things that you don't want that particular role to have access to.
- This is too soon to quantify as we are still working to implement v9 to fully utilize all capabilities of the product.