Loving Control-M for 24 years and counting
Updated October 16, 2024

Loving Control-M for 24 years and counting

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Automation API/Jobs-as-Code
  • Control-M for SAP
  • Managed File Transfer
  • Self Service
  • Workload Archiving
  • Workload Change Manager

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

We use it to run application workflows... from housekeeping to daily processes that are required to manage data with in the application. Daily workflows includes things like end-of-day processing, data extracts to downstream applications, etc. Housekeeping includes things like backups, daily maintenance, automatic start-stop of application that requires a sequence of steps to stop/start it, cleanups, etc.

Pros

  • Orchestrate complex workflows
  • File Transfers using MFT
  • The management of Control-M platform, is done well by Control-M, things like an overview of status of all components, agent upgrades via CCM/API, and the API is very useful for all its functionality.
  • Site Standards are very useful in making the environment more robust and easier to manage

Cons

  • Managing Control-M/Servers, especially when you have multiple CTM/Servers can be improved. Example, like you can shutdown EM on all EM hosts from one command, it will be helpful if you can do the same to all your Control-M/Servers.
  • Complex scheduling using Confirmation Calendars is difficult to understand and use
  • Add more API functionality, for example, managing all EM and CTM/Server System Parameters via API would be useful
  • Cost Savings - by automating manual tasks we're able to reduce man-hours and be more accurate
  • Productivity - hard to measure but reduce human errors is definitely an impact of using Control-M
500 - Mainly application support or SREs. They couldn't perform their task, of ensuing application up and reliable, without Control-M.
Its a great product and every version comes out with improvements, fixes and new functionality. There should always be room to improve, so 9/10 is what I gave.
Control-M is better then AutoSys in all aspects, from managing the solution to using it to basic and advanced functionality.

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

It's well suited at scheduling complex workflows made up of command, scripts, or out-of-the-box integrations. As things like Ansible are becoming more common in DevOps Pipelines, Control-M can schedule these but it would be good to have an internal Control-M scripting language so companies can use Control-M instead of Ansible/Terraform.

Control-M Feature Ratings

Workload Automation
8.8
Multi-platform scheduling
10
Central monitoring
10
Logging
7
Alerts and notifications
8
Analysis and visualization
9
Application integration
9

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