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Control-M pros and cons

Vendor: BMC
4.3 out of 5
Badge Ranked 1

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PROS

Control-M enables seamless cross-platform support, allowing jobs on different operating systems to be managed and orchestrated by a single tool.
The self-service capabilities of Control-M empower users to manage tasks independently, reducing reliance on technical teams and enhancing efficiency.
Control-M's advanced file transfer and automation features streamline processes, significantly reducing execution time and improving overall workflow management.
The ability to predict and react to process delays ensures timely completion, supporting service-level agreements and mitigating potential issues.
Control-M's integration capabilities with various software and databases enable comprehensive orchestration and automation across complex IT environments.

CONS

Reporting capabilities in Control-M need significant improvements, as users face challenges with pulling detailed, comprehensive, and useful reports.
Technical support for Control-M is often not satisfactory, with customers expressing concerns about delayed response times and insufficient solutions.
Control-M's licensing cost is viewed as high, with users finding it difficult to navigate and understand the licensing model, which poses budgetary challenges.
The scalability of Control-M can be problematic, especially as demands increase, leading to bottlenecks and high costs for additional resources.
Control-M faces challenges with cloud integration and compatibility with newer technologies, affecting its ability to keep pace with modern cloud services.
 

Control-M Pros review quotes

it_user675882 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
May 31, 2017
Promotions between environments, as well as local, mass update, versioning, and self-service.
it_user682359 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jun 12, 2017
Self Service, BIM features are most valuable. As no need to login to EM client and check the job status.
it_user687186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 19, 2017
I think the administration part is much more valuable than any other feature.
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it_user697383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Workload Automation Wizard at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 5, 2017
Self Service for repeatable, low impact workload automation processes.
it_user705060 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant, Production Control Services at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 18, 2017
Cross-platform support: A Linux job can be dependent on a Windows job, which can be dependent on many other flavours of hardware/software. Your batch is therefore managed by a single tool, allowing you to monitor your entire flow.
it_user790782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-fundador with 1-10 employees
Dec 18, 2017
Speeds up processes and automated tasks.
PR
Automation Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Dec 19, 2017
Control-M has enabled true enterprise batch automation, which combined with the other BMC Control products on our mainframe platform, allows us to run a 24/7 site with the lights out.
it_user791985 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 20, 2017
We can tie together all the workloads across the estate and make the whole process reactive to events.
DW
Operations Manager at L Brands, Inc.
Mar 26, 2018
There is a batch monitoring tool called Batch Impact Manager, which proactively warns when processing is behind and SLAs are in jeopardy of being missed.
it_user63360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal, IT Data Research and Mining Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 9, 2018
Automation of the batch jobs is the most valuable feature.
 

Control-M Cons review quotes

it_user675882 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
May 31, 2017
It can definitely expand promotions, so that a single job can be moved. Currently you can only promote a job by promoting the entire table.
it_user682359 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jun 12, 2017
But for some issues, BMC will suggest to upgrade to new version which will not be feasible to standards of the organisation. Hence some work around should be shown to run the business until new version was upgraded.
it_user687186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 19, 2017
We did encounter a few scalability issues. Sometimes, there are too many jobs in our environment on different servers, but that’s not the tool issue, we can simply increase the FS size. However, that requires bank cost; hence the scalability issue.
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it_user697383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Workload Automation Wizard at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 5, 2017
Advanced File Transfer (AFT) has limitations that cause us to use a bit more licensing than we feel is appropriate.
it_user705060 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant, Production Control Services at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 18, 2017
Reporting in Control-M could use improvement.
it_user790782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-fundador with 1-10 employees
Dec 18, 2017
Consider adding a mobile application for remote management.
PR
Automation Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Dec 19, 2017
The main area that could be improved would be documentation, just like every other software product out there!
it_user791985 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 20, 2017
It is a very strong product, but the reporting could be better.
DW
Operations Manager at L Brands, Inc.
Mar 26, 2018
It has a slight issue with daylight savings time while advancing the clock in the Spring.
it_user63360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal, IT Data Research and Mining Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 9, 2018
I would like to see automatic license management. And probably more importantly, some kind of machine learning to help identify the optimum automation path.