Item: Control-M
Rating: 10
Author: Robert Stinnett

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Automate business processes and workflows across a variety of systems, both on-prem and off, as well as interact with services and other third party tools. It allows us to get the single pane of glass vision across processes that are critical to the business. It also allows us to integrate with existing systems and vendors without having to reinvent the wheel or spend developer time having to write custom code.

Pros and Cons

Pros

File Transfers / Data Transfers
Integration with Third Party Systems, Providers and Cloud Services
Integration with DevOps toolsets and practices
Ability to manage and monitor workflows that span multiple systems
Ability to audit and track changes to workflows for compliance

Cons

Application Integrator should be redesigned as more of a studio/dev environment
Need to add the ability to "on demand" or "free form" file transfers - get away from the profile concept for that, or at least make it optional.

Return on Investment

Helps deliver outcomes faster by being able to quickly design workflows using pre-built integrations
Being able to use Jobs as Code/Automation API speeds development time of workflows and integrates better with existing toolchains
Single Pane of Glass helps reduce the time to track down issues when something goes wrong in a workflow

Users and Roles

125 - Wide range from traditional IT, to finance to marketing - it really is a tool that can help ALL departments. It helps drive self-service, which in turn increases efficiency. It also gives that visibility which helps reduce the number of support calls.

Usability

It's a very mature product with a wide user base and a lot of modern capabilities. Jobs as Code and it's API are some of the best I have seen in the market. The web interface allows people to use it from anywhere on any platform, and the documentation continues to grow and be more robust. Add in the ability to design custom integrations and it has all the features most organizations will need to hit the ground running.

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

Anytime you have a process that has to do multiple things, transfer data, interact with other systems, Control-M is critical. Not only does it provide the insight to what is going on, but it also lets you keep tight audit controls over access, reduces the need to spend large amounts of time tracking down issues, reduces the need to write custom "code" to do integrations with other systems and helps you better manage and track critical SLAs for workflows across the business.

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Modern, DevOps First Workflow Orchestration with Unlimited Integration Possibilities

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