Control-M vs UiPath Orchestrator comparison

BMC and UiPath are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. BMC is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.8, while UiPath is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.2. BMC holds a 21.8% mindshare in WA, compared to UiPath’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of UiPath users who would recommend it.

Control-M

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Control-M and UiPath Orchestrator are key players in the automation and job scheduling market. Control-M holds an advantage in complex environments like banking with its robust cross-platform automation, while UiPath Orchestrator excels in user-friendly cloud-based deployments and centralized management.

Features: Control-M offers extensive cross-platform job scheduling, integration with third-party applications, and a powerful GUI, making it ideal for large, complex environments. UiPath Orchestrator, on the other hand, provides centralized management, easy bot deployment, and efficient scheduling capabilities, catering to organizations requiring seamless automation.

Room for Improvement: Control-M could benefit from streamlining report generation, enhancing offline capabilities, and simplifying its user interface for complex scenarios. UiPath Orchestrator needs to address pricing structure concerns, afford better UI flexibility, and focus on optimizing transaction management within queues.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Control-M's flexibility in deployment options includes on-premises, public, and hybrid clouds, but may be complex and expensive to implement. UiPath Orchestrator offers a user-friendly approach with strong cloud deployment, providing accessible solutions. Both products ensure robust technical support, although Control-M occasionally receives critiques regarding response times.

Pricing and ROI: Control-M's pricing is generally higher with a complex licensing model, yet it delivers substantial ROI for large enterprises due to its comprehensive features. UiPath Orchestrator, though costly, provides competitive pricing especially for cloud solutions and achieves ROI by reducing manual tasks and improving automation efficiencies.

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Categories and Ranking

Control-M

Ranking in Workload Automation

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

122

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (2nd), Managed File Transfer (MFT) (4th)

UiPath Orchestrator

Ranking in Workload Automation

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of Control-M is 21.8%, down from 26.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath Orchestrator is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Pedro Fuentes

System Engineer at Community Loans of America, Inc.

Cost-effective, excellent support, and centralized access and control

They have a department that handles requests for enhancements. I talked to Control-M guys back in October or November when they had a gathering here in Atlanta. We talked about not being able to go back in history in Helix Control-M for more than two weeks. We submitted a request for enhancement. They told us that they are working on it, and they are thinking of expanding that to 30 days. We would like to see it expand to 90 days, but they are working on it. In Control-M, we were able to go back 180 days, but that was on-prem. The storage of that data was on our own servers. We know that storage is money, and we do not expect them to store that much of the data, but at least 30 to 60 days seem proper.

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Bantu Kumar

Senior Technical Director at Globant

Improves operational efficiency through its centralized dashboard and asset management

There are overwhelming features added to UiPath Orchestrator, which can lead to complexities. Permissions, roles, and queues sometimes result in conflicts, requiring deeper understanding. I would prefer if the tool was more intuitive, and it is important to maintain simplicity instead of combining multiple functionalities, potentially through different licensing models to restrict features.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The unified view where you can define, orchestrate, and monitor applications, workflows, and data pipelines is important because we have more than one team working on Control-M. We have a support team, a job-creation team, and a SAP team. We can all work together on it. It avoids anyone from working on his part and not using the latest modifications."

"It is very stable. We hardly get calls in respect to issues on Control-M, particularly on version 9.0.19."

"We are now able to deliver data to our data warehouses and dashboards promptly."

"It is simple to create, integrate, and automate data pipelines and to ingest data from different platforms. It integrates well between platforms."

"Because it's a tool which allows us to do scheduled work, it allows for notifications when jobs aren't running within that scheduled time frame. This improves the opportunity to meet SLAs."

"BIM is a good tool to monitor SLAs, and being a financial organization, this is a very good feature for us."

"Before Control-M, we didn't have a centralized view and could not view what happened in the past to determine what will happen in the future. The Gantt view that we have in Control-M is like a project view. It is nice because we sometimes have some application maintenance that we need to do. So, in a single console, we can hold the jobs for the next hour or two. We can release that job when it is finished. This is a really nice feature that we didn't have before. It is something really simple, but we didn't previously have a console where we could say, "For the next two hours, what are the jobs that we will run? And, hold these jobs not to run." This is really important."

"The File Watcher utility, cyclic jobs, and email alert notification are valuable."

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"Orchestrator's most valuable features include schedulers, queues, and integration with Splunk."

"UiPath Orchestration works effectively in deploying, scheduling, and running automated bots across different environments."

"From what I have seen, it is a reliable tool."

"The features of UiPath Orchestrator that I find to be the most useful for automation processes are scheduling, queue management, and asset management."

"It was very simple to use and allowed us to easily record and manage activities."

"One standout feature I like in UiPath Orchestrator is the scheduling capability."

"UiPath Orchestrator is a stable solution."

"UiPath Orchestrator is a user-friendly solution."

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Cons

"The stability of Control-M has Not been great. A big thing we've been trying to work on with BMC is observability. Modern applications should be observable and resilient, but we're finding that sometimes Control-M is not very resilient and many times Control-M is not very observable."

"I'm currently working on the SaaS version, but I've also worked on the on-prem versions before. There is a handful of features that haven't been added to the SaaS version, and the BMC knows that. It's a matter of time before they prioritize the missing pieces and bring them into the SaaS version."

"Integration with some applications and platforms is complex and requires development. We have done some integration with the application integrator, but it was more like a manual solution. This is an area that can be improved."

"The unifying features between Control-M for different platforms needs improvement. The scheduling options on the Control-M mainframe jobs are different than they are on our Linux server. There are a few differences here and there."

"A Control-M on-prem license is based on the number of jobs, which is the number of tasks a particular customer wants to have. These tasks have to be run within 24 hours window. For example, if you have a license for 100 jobs, you can run a maximum of 100 jobs in a 24-hour window. If your operations could not run 10 jobs, and they ran only 90 jobs, they just carry over to the next day, but the next day, they will have 110 jobs. Control-M asks you to buy those 10 more licenses because you were out of compliance in terms of the number of licenses. This is something that needs to be indicated in Control-M GUI so that customers know the number of licenses they're going to use in this time window. Their support and documentation should be improved. I am not that satisfied with their customer support. Sometimes, they don't have the answers. Their documentation is very poor. It is not well written, and it is not in a very logical manner. You can use it on Unix, Linux, Windows, and AIX, but it needs some improvement on iSeries. It needs a built-in mechanism inside the system to give you an option to restore from the last point of failure. If a process crashes, the Control-M needs to have a mechanism in iSeries where the process can be restored from the last point of failure."

"We have some plug-ins like BOBJ, and we need a little improvement there. Other than that, it has been pretty good. I haven't seen any issues."

"You need to pay for extra features if you need them."

"They can give more predefined plug-ins so that we don't have to create them."

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"The solution's pricing can be more competitive. Apache is one of the most expensive alternatives in the market. The integration with reporting tools and classic solutions is essential. Having BI integration, Salesforce integration, and robust monitoring and reporting capabilities would enhance the product."

"It's a bit difficult to connect to the licenses."

"In my opinion, some improvements could be made in the UiPath Orchestrator. For example, it's not so simple to see all the time triggers that we have. We need to check each folder and see all the triggers to see what kind of robot will run. We do not have all the triggers in one place, showing the time they will run and for which process in each folder. Another thing is that the tool for monitoring processes does not show the relation between the process and the machines running them. We can check which machine is available or not because it is running a process, but we cannot see the process and the machine running it in one view."

"UiPath Orchestrator should improve its UI and make it more user-friendly."

"The product must provide process mining features."

"The credential vault is generic and does not have process categorization. The tool needs to arrange a Customer Success Manager for support. It should also improve the credential manager and integrate a customized form of retrieving the details. There should be more dashboards as well."

"It takes us time to understand the process before we can publish it. Its pricing needs to be lower, and there needs to be a centralized dashboard."

"I had faced issues with passwords and the monitoring feature."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is not cheap, it comes with quite a hefty price tag. Control-M is the market leader, but we still want the price to be as friendly as possible."

"BMC does NOT have a great licensing model from my perspective."

"Its pricing is a little bit high. They could provide an enterprise-level license for an unlimited number of jobs. Currently, it is based on the number of jobs, and if you exceed the number of jobs, there are charges. For example, if your license is for 3,000 jobs per day, but you run 3,050 jobs, you will have to pay for the extra 50 jobs. They charge $120 per job. So, it is too costly."

"This product saves hours in a day based on my experience working here versus other companies with manually operations."

"The price is right because of the licensing schema, which is based on nodes and processes. You purchase what you use, no more and no less, and you can grow with time."

"It depends. It's packaged in such a way that you can buy the base model without all of the fancy stuff. You can try and keep your price similar to competitors. I guess it's natural throughout the world. It doesn't matter whether you're buying cell phones or something else. The best cell phone will always be more expensive."

"The pricing is moderate, not too low or too high compared to other solutions."

"The pricing of Control-M is reasonable."

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"The solution is very expensive. Compared to Microsoft, another tool that is much cheaper than the tool, it does not have the same features that UiPath Orchestrator has. The most valuable feature in my platform is the queue items in UiPath Orchestrator to evaluate the products using this feature."

"Larger organizations may benefit from more favorable pricing, as the costs can be distributed across more licenses."

"I rate UiPath Orchestrator's pricing a six out of ten."

"The product’s pricing is a little higher than reasonable."

"UiPath Orchestrator's price is reasonable. We pay around 40k USD. Its licensing costs are yearly."

"The tool's licensing cost is high. I rate the tool an eight or nine on a scale from one to ten, where ten means expensive."

"The product is expensive, and the associated licenses add to the expenses, initially making deploying new processes costly."

"The pricing is quite reasonable, particularly with the cloud version where Orchestrator is included in all other licenses at no additional cost."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

18%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

How does Control-M compare with AutoSys Workload Automation?

Control-M acts as a single, centralized interface for monitoring and managing all batch processes, which is helpful because nothing gets left unattended since it is all visible in one place, and th...

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What do you like most about Control-M?

First of all, the shift from manual to automation has been valuable. We have a tool that can automate.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Control-M?

It depends. It's packaged in such a way that you can buy the base model without all of the fancy stuff. You can try and keep your price similar to competitors. I guess it's natural throughout the w...

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What do you like most about UiPath Orchestrator?

Using UiPath Orchestrator, we can deploy tasks across different environments, including virtual machines, for both attended and unattended processes.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for UiPath Orchestrator?

The pricing of UiPath Orchestrator is a bit high. However, we can compete with that, though if they decrease the prices, it would lead to better market penetration.

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What needs improvement with UiPath Orchestrator?

I would like to see high availability over two sites, with a main site and a disaster recovery working as an active-active solution, which is not currently supported.

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Overview

Control-M is used for enterprise workload automation, orchestrating finance, retail, healthcare, and supply chain processes. It handles batch job scheduling, managed file transfers, cloud integrations, and compliance auditing across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Organizations leverage Control-M to efficiently monitor and manage business-critical processes like payroll, HR, SAP, Informatica, and database tasks. It enhances visibility, security, and error resolution. Automating and optimizing workflows in data centers, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, Control-M supports diverse technological environments. The platform's robust capabilities make it suitable for effective centralized management of applications and data pipelines, ensuring enhanced collaboration and scalability.

What are Control-M's most important features?

Integration capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with various systems
Automation API: Facilitates automation through APIs
Managed File Transfer: Simplifies secure file transfers
GUI console: Intuitive graphical user interface
Role-based administration: Provides access control
Single-pane view: Centralized monitoring dashboard
Scheduling options: Flexible job scheduling
Workflow orchestration: Coordinates complex workflows
Reporting: Generates insightful reports
Monitoring: Tracks and manages tasks
Forecasting: Predicts future workloads
Self-service portal: Empowers users with self-service tools
Plugins: Extends functionality through additional plugins

What are the benefits or ROI of using Control-M?

Enhanced visibility: Centralized view of all processes
Ease of use: User-friendly interface
Error reduction: Minimizes manual errors
Improved collaboration: Facilitates teamwork
Scalability: Supports growth and scale
Support: Comprehensive customer support

Control-M is implemented in industries like finance to handle payroll and HR tasks, in retail for inventory management and supply chain processes, and in healthcare for compliance auditing and patient data processing. Organizations benefit from streamlined workflows and automated processes across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring efficient and secure operations.

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UiPath Orchestrator automates website processes, manages supply chains, handles log-ins, and processes invoices efficiently. It's a comprehensive tool for generating reports, managing RPA workflows, scheduling robots, and ensuring task accuracy, making it indispensable for organizations aiming to optimize automation.

UiPath Orchestrator stands out for its user-friendly interface, centralized data collection, and robust security measures. Its intuitive design, combined with a comprehensive view of bot activity, makes it highly appreciated among users. With asset encryption, AI-integrated functionalities, and role-based access control, organizations find it reduces the need for extensive technical knowledge, thereby enhancing automation efficiency. It also excels in asset and queue management, logging capabilities, and scheduling functions, contributing significantly to streamlined operational processes.

What are the most important features of UiPath Orchestrator?

Centralized data collection: Provides a unified view of all automation activities
Robust security measures: Includes asset encryption and role-based access control
Scheduling functions: Allows efficient planning and execution of automated tasks
Asset and queue management: Enhances organization in handling automation assets
Logging capabilities: Tracks activities for better oversight and troubleshooting
AI-integrated functionalities: Improves accuracy and efficiency in automation

What benefits should users look for in reviews when evaluating UiPath Orchestrator?

Market visibility: Increased exposure and promotional activities
Code management: Improved management capabilities for Studio
Support response: Faster and more efficient support services
Credential vault: Enhanced flexibility in handling transactional items
AI capabilities: Advanced features at competitive pricing
Documentation: Clearer guidelines for transitioning setups
Integration: Better integration with reporting tools and comprehensive dashboards
Licensing: Streamlined processes for managing licenses
Monitoring: Centralized triggers for better process monitoring

UiPath Orchestrator sees wide application across industries such as manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. In manufacturing, it streamlines supply chain processes and automates inventory management. Finance companies use it for processing invoices and managing compliance, while the healthcare sector benefits from automating patient data handling and optimizing appointment scheduling. Each industry leverages the platform\'s extensive capabilities to enhance operational efficiency and accuracy.

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CARFAX, Tampa General Hospital, Navistar, Amadeus, Raymond James, Railinc

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