Item: Control-M
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Control-M is our centralized Workflow automation tool , It gives us the ability to have end-to-end workflows, no matter where they're running . Its integration to different application is very easy to use , jus plugin and start running the jobs . It gives us better control and easy to manage.

Pros and Cons

Pros

API
job as a code
Customer support
Centralized connection profile

Cons

SLA Management
In build solution for fix or issue comes up like cook book
Knowledge Article should be updated
Better testing of product before release as i have seen many defect even in small functionality when they release new version
reduce the license cost
Build in Workflow insight at free of cost

Return on Investment

Its provide single platform to view and analysis which help to take decision quick and reduce the downtime. In directly reduce the cost factor .
Application feasibility and easy integration helped us to stay ahead of technology .
Integration with devops and workload change manager did helped us to deliver on time which helped us to reduce the cost factor.

Users and Roles

2000 - Control-M simplifies application and data workflow orchestration on premises or as a service. It makes it easy to build, define, schedule, manage, and monitor production workflows, ensuring visibility, reliability, and improving service level agreements

Usability

It has become part of our system, without which it would impact our business or day to day processing . It did made our life easy with its automated features ,integration , easy to use , with lot of API and plugin which are deployed , customization of jobs or job as a code . All this feature did really helped us to stay ahead in our business functionality .

Alternatives Considered

IWS, AutoSys Workload Automation and CA Scheduler Job Management

Every scheduler is unique in its features . And every tool as its own advantage and disadvantage . And Control-M does too Control-M support is awesome . Never seen any delay . Its very easy to manage and easy to use . Easy integration

Key Insights

Do you think Control-M delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Control-M's feature set?

Yes

Did Control-M live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Control-M go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Control-M again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very well suited where you have complex integration or
dependency between different System and application which include Mainframe ,
Distributed system , different application which depend on data which comes
from other tools or vendor . Where visibility & delivery is very high .
If you just have jobs or flow which does not have any integration with other app in that case you can use inbuild scheduling feature available in every os and app .

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