Control-M: The Ultimate Tool for Workflow Management.
Updated June 25, 2025

Control-M: The Ultimate Tool for Workflow Management.

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

Modules Used

  • Managed File Transfer
  • Self Service
  • Workload Archiving
  • Automation API/Jobs-as-Code
  • Application Integrator

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

By automating job scheduling, Control-M reduces the risk of human error that can occur with manual scheduling. Control-M provides detailed logs and reports, which are essential for compliance and auditing purposes. The tool also provides real-time monitoring and alerts, enabling quick response to any issues that arise.

Pros

  • Increased confidence that SLAs are being met for Control-M users and IT leaders.
  • Enhanced dashboards and reporting with constant telemetry and intelligent analysis on executing workflows.
  • In-depth reporting to help teams work autonomously.

Cons

  • Sometimes, jobs fail without clear reasons. That needs to be improved. Licensing costs could be improved, especially for small and mid-sized businesses. Some bugs affect our daily activities after applying patch releases or version updates. Testing should be more thorough before a release when they have any release or update.
  • Control-M has demonstrated significant ROI across various business objectives.
  • By automating labor-intensive batch processing tasks, Control-M has significantly helped organizations reduce operational costs.
  • Control-M enables businesses to scale their operations without a proportional increase in headcount.
  • By reducing the time required to promote new workloads by 50%, Control-M helps businesses bring new services and products to market faster, potentially increasing revenue1.
50 - Control‑M simplifies and automates diverse batch application workloads while reducing failure rates, improving SLAs, and accelerating application.
Ease of Use & Functionality is better.
Control-M stands out in the workload automation space for its robust orchestration capabilities, especially in complex, hybrid IT environmentsActiveBatch: Known for its rich integrations and intuitive workflow designer,

ActiveBatch often scores higher in ease of use and built-in features. However, Control-M offers deeper enterprise-grade orchestration and predictive analytics for SLA management

Why Choose Control-M
Enterprise-

Grade Orchestration:
It supports complex workflows across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.

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?

No

Did implementation of Control-M go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Control-M again?

Yes

Scenarios where it's well suited are where you're running jobs across platforms. We have processes on our mainframe that have to complete our daily batch processing, and the controlling handles the scheduling of the daily batch processing.

Control-M Feature Ratings

Multi-platform scheduling
10
Central monitoring
10
Logging
10
Alerts and notifications
10
Analysis and visualization
10
Application integration
10

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