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it_user675912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Specialist at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Scheduling has changed from basic to more complex.

What is most valuable?

The GUI for operators.

How has it helped my organization?

Scheduling has changed from basic to more complex as our developers get acquainted with the ability and flexibility of the product.

What needs improvement?

Report builder is cumbersome. Not all interfaces work out-of-the-box and there are a lot of adjustments to the product and configurations after installation.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have used this solution for three years.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Connectivity to agents is a constant challenge due to security and Firewalls.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There were no stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

There were no scalability issues.

How are customer service and support?

Customer Service:

Customer support is good. The support site, searching, and accessing knowledge modules, and accessing product downloads is very slow.

Technical Support:

Technical support is excellent.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were a manual shop, where operators ran selected routines through menus.

How was the initial setup?

We had do perform several install configurations until we finally achieved the stability we required.

What about the implementation team?

We work with a vendor group and they were very good. The BMC support contributions for design were flawed and we had to make several adjustments.

What was our ROI?

I am not sure.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

There are various methods available for licensing, and we use the task/day load process.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated Compugen, CA, and Cisco.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Business Service Management Architect at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
Offers high availability through software, supported by an Oracle RAC with ASM.

What is most valuable?

High availability through software, supported by an Oracle RAC with ASM, is a valuable feature. In operation, it is fantastic.

How has it helped my organization?

My clients are happy; the comment that gets repeated is, "Control-M is a very stable tool".

What needs improvement?

The web console consumes resources to my "high" point of view. Thinking about a totally web management environment is an opportunity for improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

  • Operator = 2 years
  • Scheduling = 3 years
  • Administrator = 3 years

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Implementation was easy and quick.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not encountered any stability issues. BMC Control-M is very stable in any version.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

BMC Control-M is an easy-to-run, scalable, robust platform or architecture tool.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Customer service is the best.

Technical Support:

Technical support is the best.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, I had version 8, and I migrated to version 9 because of its high availability functionality.

How was the initial setup?

You cannot be an airplane pilot without education; with the right education and training, the solution does what it has to do and makes it fantastic.

What about the implementation team?

Providers implemented it; they were excellent.

What was our ROI?

I cannot mention ROI.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

A good product always has a cost. I think the cost supports the efficiency of the product.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Before choosing this product, we did not evaluate other options.

What other advice do I have?

Is a very good option for the WLA tasks within a company. There is a lot of information on the internet for it. Analyze the costs vs the benefits and if you have the option to invest in a solution that gives you automation of almost everything in IT, acquire it. You will not regret it.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user540414 - PeerSpot reviewer
Master Scheduler at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Most of the batch processing is now centralized into a single scheduling platform.

What is most valuable?

There are no specific features that I could say are more valuable than others. The whole product is valuable to us.

How has it helped my organization?

  • Ninety percent or more of the batch processing is now centralized into a single scheduling platform. This helps the support teams so that they only need to go to one group for scheduling and monitoring the batch processing
  • The operations support staff only has one platform where they can monitor almost all of our batch processing.

What needs improvement?

There aren’t any improvements that I’ve come across with the most recent release. If I had to note one improvement, it would be that jobs already in the system for a given day could be updated en masse. This could be the same on the database where the job definitions reside.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used the product for sixteen years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I did not encounter any stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

How are customer service and technical support?

The level of support from BMC has been very good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We already evaluated CA’s offering at the time because we were already using CA-7 on the mainframe.

How was the initial setup?

Other than creating the jobs in Control-M once it was set up, I was not involved.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It is task based pricing. It is based on the number of jobs brought into the system daily and any that remain in the system from prior days.

For example, if you have 2000 new jobs that come in in for a new day, and you still have 500 left from previous days, you will need to have 2500 task licenses to cover them. This is the case, even if those 500 jobs are daily jobs that came in during the prior day and have not yet been completed.

What other advice do I have?

We use BMC’s Control-M software for our open systems and SAP batch processing. We will be looking at converting the batch we are running via the solution to the same.

I’ve never used the mainframe version of Control-M before, so I don’t have any opinions about it.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user505659 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr System Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
Use of AFT, DB and other modules has reduced human error.

What is most valuable?

  • AFT
  • SAP
  • DB

How has it helped my organization?

We use AFT, DB and other modules extensively. They have reduced a lot of human error and achieved our SLAs.

What needs improvement?

In each module, one or more improvements need to be made. However, that is out of scope for this review. In a sense, if anything cannot be done in batch mode, it requires online processing with middleware.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used it for nine years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have not encountered any stability issues. Control-M is a bulletproof product and very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have not encountered any scalability issues. It is a very scalable product.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support is 8/10. However, a lot of techies use the online forum. If you are knowledgeable, you can solve issues yourself; otherwise it’ll go to level 3 support, which makes tech support a middleman.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I did not previously use a different solution.

How was the initial setup?

I have seen initial setups that are both straightforward and complex.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Licensing is little complex.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user505689 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
Plugins (Control Modules) are available for almost all of the widely used applications.

What is most valuable?

The GUI is very user friendly and also plugins (Control Modules) are available for almost all of the widely used applications.

How has it helped my organization?

It helped to automates batches in the best possible way.

What needs improvement?

They could improve the reporting.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using it for 10 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have not encountered any stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support is very good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I previously used another solution, but switched due to its limited functionality.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup was easy to understand.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Before choosing this product, we also evaluated Autosys.

What other advice do I have?

The tool has many features; make sure you make use of most of them.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
Facilitates process automation.

What is most valuable?

Integration with different modules such as:
Web Service -WS
Advanced File Transfer - AFT

How has it helped my organization?

We use the Control-M modules to reduce the development time of the automations, using the modules.

Web Service -WS (We use to integrate with ODI e SOA)

Advansed File Transfer - AFT (We did an integration between several servers with a safe delivery)

What needs improvement?

I would like to see improvement in the integration of modules. As I worked with the modules, I saw the need for better integration several times.

In the case of a Web Service (WS) module, it could have more facilities with the integration of SOA services when an asynchronous service is invoked. When used for this purpose, it generates a number of unnecessary alerts to the operator dashboard.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for five years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

I did not find it.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Most stability problems are network connected, i.e., communication goes down with servers where you have a client.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Very good.

Technical Support:

Technical support is very good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I thought of using a different solution, but this solution is as simple as other alternatives.

How was the initial setup?

Yes, I did. We change because of the integration facilities other market tools and to ensure a safe delivery of the company's files.

What about the implementation team?

It was done through a vendor team with the support of the internal team.

What was our ROI?

Confidential.


What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

This is quite specific. It will depend on the number of processes that you need to automate.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Yes we evaluated.

CA Workload Automation AE(AutoSys)

IBM Tivoli System Automation

What other advice do I have?

Improve the disclosure of the modules for the clients and show the cases of success.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user540252 - PeerSpot reviewer
App Support Sr. Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
Provides visual linking of jobs, and shows when there is no link to other jobs.

What is most valuable?

Linking of jobs (visual, which other products don't have): It will give you a whole picture as to how other jobs are linked to each other (or if there's no link to other jobs).

How has it helped my organization?

The product was already in use when I was started working in the company.

What needs improvement?

There was an upgrade to the project, before it was moved to BMC. It could have been better if there was a demo on how / on the changes.

For how long have I used the solution?

I used it for around six months. I was using it around the middle of 2015.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There were no stability issues as such. There were only issues in the appearance, after the upgrade.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I did not experience any scalability issues.

How are customer service and technical support?

I didn't really call for help on the production with the technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I've used other products but BMC Control-M is far better than the others.

How was the initial setup?

Other teams are in charge of the installation process.

What other advice do I have?

Nothing to worry, as the product works well.

It is a good product compared to the other products in the market.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user538239 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
The central scheduler tool provides automation of cross platform and batch processing. It has agents for iSeries, z/OS and UNISYS 2000.

What is most valuable?

  • User friendly interface
  • Self-service portal
  • Support for AS400 and mainframes
  • many more.

Not all central scheduler tools have agents for iSeries, z/OS and UNISYS 2000. These are valuable features because I don't have to use many tools and I have one central tool for all platforms.

How has it helped my organization?

Reduces cost, failure, and human error.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see a decrease is the licensing price.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this for eight years. (Versions 6.4, 7, and 8.)

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I did not encounter any issues with scalability

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support has a very weak first line of support, but a very good developer team in Israel.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I didn’t use a previous solution, but I saw and compared it with OpsWise, TWS and AutoSys.

It's like comparing iPhones (Control-M) with other phones (OpsWise, TWS and AutoSys).

Control-M has the best and most user friendly interface. It's very easy to use when you are just beginning your journey with central schedulers.

There are many features like modules for VMware, Hadoop, BladeLogic, databases, PeopleSoft, SAP and many more.

How was the initial setup?

The installation was quite simple. There was very good documentation.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The licensing is quite expensive.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated OpsWise, TWS, and AutoSys.

What other advice do I have?

Make sure you plan well when you begin automating jobs in Control-M.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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