My experience with Control-M
Updated December 06, 2024

My experience with Control-M

Sebastian Lizarraga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Application Integrator
  • Automation API/Jobs-as-Code
  • Control-M for SAP
  • Managed File Transfer
  • Self Service
  • SLA Management
  • Workload Archiving

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

I use Control-M in my organization to manage the critical batches of important HR, Financial, Taxes applications which are crucial for the business. I'm part of a mixed team of operators and schedulers where we try to provide the best service as possible. Due to the robust and extremely environment we manage more than 40000 jobs

Pros

  • Robust
  • Customizable
  • Scalable
  • Multi-platform
  • Graphical user interface

Cons

  • APIs
  • Plugins
  • Connectors
  • Increased Operational Efficiency
  • Enhanced Reliability
  • Improved Scalability
50 - It has contributed to centrally manage the execution of all business
processes, globally, across different systems such as mainframes,
clusters, distributed, virtual and cloud environments. This reduces the
turnaround time for various workflows as it helps prevent and remove
errors and delays from end-to-end business processes, with an added core
benefit of reducing costs.​ It offers advanced job scheduling capabilities, allowing users to define
and automate complex workflows with ease
It dynamically adjusts workload
distribution to maximize resource utilization and meet SLA’s.

Users can define workload policies, allocate
resources and monitor workload performance in real-time. iIs the primary stakeholders in Control-M implementation and
managements. They are responsible for deploying, configuring, and maintaining
Control-M within the Organization IT infra-Structure. Collaborates with other stakeholders to define job schedules, workload policies, and
automation rules based on business requirements.
The use of Control-M supports effective scheduling links between
various systems and its user interface enables the Workload Automation team to
maintain the batch schedule and to effectively monitor the progress of the
batch. It supports various types of job
scheduling, including batch jobs, file transfers, database queries, application
integration, reporting and analytics, cloud workload automation and more. Its
flexibility and extensibility allow organizations to automate virtually any
task or process within their IT infrastructure, improving efficiency,
reliability, and scalability.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Control-M again?

Yes

Control-M really applies well for mixed environments where multiple scripts need to run from different platforms and need to connect one application with the other without losing functionality. Control-M is less appropriate when thinking on working on situations where "agentless" is required and also DMZ servers where aliases should be utilized

Control-M Feature Ratings

Workload Automation
8.0
Multi-platform scheduling
10
Central monitoring
9
Logging
8
Alerts and notifications
8
Analysis and visualization
8
Application integration
5

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