Putting the M in Mastery.
July 03, 2025

Putting the M in Mastery.

Chloe Jefferson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Application Integrator

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

Picture this: data pipeline drops at 2am. Its supposed to grab logs, transform them, update a warehouse and send an alert. Now, if anything in that chain fails, someone is waking up cranky. But Control-M, It tracks every step, check conditions, retries intelligently, and if something goes, it tells us where and why. It basically keeps the wheels turning behind the scenes without us needing a million scripts duct-taped together

Pros

  • The way it handles dependencies wow. You can chain jobs across different systems like yore DJing in a data center
  • The calendar functionality, a chefs kiss. handles holidays time zones, exceptions...
  • The self service portal, how it lets non techie teams trigger and monitor their own jobs blowing something up or bothering IT every 5 minutes.

Cons

  • Control-M isn't exactly light weight. You don't casually "try it out". Its a commitment
  • If you aren't use to Control-M's way of thinking(folders, jobs, SMART tables
  • Since centralizing all our workflows in Control-M, we've cut end to end processing time by nearly 30%
  • Before Control-M we were babysitting scripts, manually rerunning failed jobs, and chasing ghost errors. With automated recovery, smart notifications, and fewer failures slipping through the cracks, we have saved 3 hours a day across teams
  • Our workflows success rate sits at 99.95% and when things do fail, they are pinpointed immediately
35 - Spanning IT operations, data engineering, finance and business analytics. It's boosted efficacy across board, IT no longer chases failed jobs, analytics gets delivery on time, and finance teams can run reports independently through the self service portal. Our workflows are centralized helping everyone move faster with fewer handoffs and less chaos
Once you're familiar with its structure; folders, jobs, conditions-its smooth sailing, especially with the drag and drop GUI and workflow visualizations. Its powerful, but not exactly beginner friendly, which is why it doesn't get a perfect 10. Still, for anyone managing complex jobs at scale, its a incredible.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Control-M go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Control-M again?

Yes

We've got scripts running on Linux, SQL jobs on window, cloud functions on AWs and god-knows what hiding in our prem stack and Control-M pulls it all together. Its perfect for multiplatform environments where job dependencies, timing and reliability are mission critical. Less ideal for small teams just running a few cron jobs, its just too powerful for that.

Control-M Feature Ratings

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

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