Control-M Best Centralized Automation Software
December 11, 2025

Control-M Best Centralized Automation Software

Shivam Dhang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • SLA Management
  • Workload Change Manager
  • Automation API/Jobs-as-Code

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

We use this to ensure that all our jobs are running on time and are meeting the business timelines and also through this software we have the complete visibility of the scheduled jobs whether its running on time or may get delayed.
This software is used by all our of teams within the organization for sales to HR and from engineering to support teams for a smooth and controlled job flows.

Pros

  • Integration with various existing products makes it a single go-to platform.
  • As we are from a service-based company, Control-M allows us to monitor all customer jobs from a single dashboard and alerts us early if a workflow is running late or past the deadlines.
  • Reduces manual work by automation.
  • Detailed Audit trail logs help us to be more secure and compliant.

Cons

  • Quite outdated user interface
  • Technical customer support should have been more efficient
  • Upgrades are time-consuming and sometimes affect production.
  • This software has helped our organization a lot. It has helped us to save time, reduce mistakes, and help us deliver faster to our clients. By automation and monitoring various jobs for all our clients in one place, it cuts down manual work and has lowered our operational costs.
  • This software has improved our accuracy through automated jobs that run the same way every time. This makes fewer errors, fewer delays, and better service provided to our customers.
  • This software makes our work run smoothly, so we can handle more clients with fewer staff. This helps our business grow and be more financially efficient.
500 - Control-M is used by our whole team, from Sales and HR to Engineering and Support.



The sales team uses this to automate reports and dashboards so the team always has the latest information for their presentation and customer pitch
The HR uses this to automate tasks like payroll and employee data.
The Engineering team uses this to schedule and monitors client jobs, deployments, and data pipelines to make sure they are running before deadlines.


Support uses this to sends alerts for job failures and gives full visibility, helping the client to fix problems faster.
This is a powerful and reliable tool for automating and monitoring workflows.
Sometimes, new users may find it hard to learn, and some advanced features can be tricky to set up.
It supports both on-prem and cloud environments.
Easy to handle complex, multi-system workflows more efficiently.
Helped reduce manual intervention, which has decreased errors and operational costs.


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?

Yes

Would you buy Control-M again?

Yes

When we work with many of our clients so we have thousands of jobs every day, and Control-M helps keep everything organized in one place, which makes it easy to navigate, track, and monitor the jobs.
For small scale industry or company it maybe more expensive as the licensing is quite high.

Control-M Feature Ratings

Multi-platform scheduling
7
Central monitoring
8
Logging
9
Alerts and notifications
6
Analysis and visualization
7
Application integration
10

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