Selecting Control-M Balancing Legacy Needs with Modern IT Demands
September 09, 2025

Selecting Control-M Balancing Legacy Needs with Modern IT Demands

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

Modules Used

  • Application Integrator
  • Automation API/Jobs-as-Code
  • Managed File Transfer
  • Self Service
  • SLA Management
  • Managed File Transfer Enterpice

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

Control-M is used in our organization for more than 10 years. Main usage areas are workload automation, manage file transfer and enterprise managed file transfer. Control-M solves multiple billing and finance business problems such as correct report generation and delivery, multiple system process orchestration like driving finance AR or finance GL processes across multiple systems and architectures within defined SLA and time frames. Reducing human errors to the minimum, by reducing amount of interaction necessary with the system what is very critical during heavy workload days. Control_M is also beneficial to replace 24/7 operations with absolutely powerful scheduling possibilities and custom calendars. Thanks to Control-M self-service and web application - business can be granted with access to corresponding process viewpoints and see corresponding SLA's for important processes.

Pros

  • Orchestration - simple view on heavy and important cross system processes.
  • Scheduling - Calendars and Custom scheduling
  • Resources managing and view point management
  • Alarming - having all "not successful" stuff in one place.

Cons

  • Better Integration with Teams and SharePoint with Outlook
  • Script modification via GUI
  • Enterprise Managed Transfer - improve gateway options. Increase possibility and variation for file storage and connecting different storage objects.
  • In the Billing and Finance part Control_M successfully replacing 15 FTE.
  • Control_M proven logic decreased amount of process mistakes on 95%
  • Managed File transfer allows to consolidate all file management in one location, under one roof in one view bringing approximately 100K EUR per year savings by reducing amount of internal systems

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

Best suited for Workload optimization and automation. As example running Query in system A, running multiple scripts in system B,C and D. then combining all information in one flow and delivery the report to the destination while informing the customers or business responsible persons. Integration with modern ERPs and easy to manage API connection to other systems. Control_M is easy integration via bult-in plugins ether by utilizing build-in API.

Control-M Feature Ratings

Multi-platform scheduling
10
Central monitoring
10
Logging
10
Alerts and notifications
10
Analysis and visualization
10
Application integration
9

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