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Control-M manages pretty much everything in our hemisphere, helping us meet our financial regulatory obligations, file transfers, running scripts, PowerShell, and SQL, making it critical to our day-to-day operations.
Control-M supports our DataOps and DevOps initiatives by providing an avenue for our DevOps teams to problem-solve in an easy way, giving them a platform to build on rather than having to start from scratch.
Control-M manages pretty much everything in our hemisphere, helping us meet our financial regulatory obligations, file transfers, running scripts, PowerShell, and SQL, making it critical to our day-to-day operations.
Control-M supports our DataOps and DevOps initiatives by providing an avenue for our DevOps teams to problem-solve in an easy way, giving them a platform to build on rather than having to start from scratch.
The measurable benefits or improvements we've achieved with Control-M are critical in the finance industry, as it keeps us on target with all regulatory requirements. Without Control-M, I don't know where we'd be, and if we shut it off, the business would probably run for about six hours before we faced serious issues, highlighting its role as a key component to our success.
Control-M has definitely enabled new capabilities and business processes that weren't possible before, allowing us to go to other departments and problem-solve for them, eliminating manual tasks that have been done for years. Departments now benefit from not even needing to look back at whether a task is being done since the information is readily available, providing them more time in their day for productivity and enhancing life for our customers.
Control-M is a great product already, but everything can do with a bit of improvement. Personally, I'd like to see a little bit more color in the web interface, and in terms of its technical ability, the one thing I would be critical about is a bit more user-friendliness with the reports and the way we input information into it.
I've been working with Control-M for three years.
Once we have tested things and gotten them into play, during the three years that I've been working with Control-M, I've encountered only one problem, and BMC's support has been quite good, allowing us to solve that issue quickly and easily.
Once we have tested things and gotten them into play, during the three years that I've been working with Control-M, I've encountered only one problem, and BMC's support has been quite good, allowing us to solve that issue quickly and easily.
Neutral
The biggest return on investment from using Control-M, from my point of view, is the ease of use and the time it gives our employees back in their day to be more productive.
I would give Control-M a very good rating in building, scheduling, managing, and monitoring workflows. It is pretty easy to use, and we have taken people without any type of formal training and been able to get them into using Control-M fully as a scheduler within weeks, proving its ease of use. In terms of its use for scheduling and building, it provides options, and it comes back to having flexibility, which is appreciated by anyone who has worked in the build area. With all the plug-in options and various job types that you can create, it increases the flexibility and the avenues available for using Control-M as a solution.
I've not had much interaction with licensing. In terms of costs, I think in life you have to pay for what you want, and generally, if you want quality, you've got to pay for it, but in my limited knowledge of pricing outside of Control-M and BMC, I think it is competitive, recognizing there's not a lot out there like Control-M, making it difficult to determine what the price should be as it is a critical piece of work worth its value. I would rate this product an 8.5 out of 10.
Control-M runs all of our payments, batch, and managed file transfers.
Approximately 250 people use Control-M on a daily basis. Their main roles include schedulers who create batch jobs, testers, and administrators and operators.
Control-M enables us to better support our DataOps and DevOps initiatives because we have a release system every month, which allows us to work more effectively and we're automating that system with Control-M.
Control-M orchestrates workloads across several environments. Currently, we use it across five environments.
Control-M handles complex data pipelines and analytics processes by allowing us to integrate with different services. For instance, we use it with our Power BI for our reporting tools, and for pipelines for release functions as well.
We only use on-premise for the creation and automation of data pipelines with Control-M. We don't have the cloud yet.
The main features of Control-M that we appreciate the most are the scheduling and the automation capabilities. When it works, it really works very well for us. Another feature that we appreciate is the file watching service because we interact with many different sections who drop files in various locations. It's great to have that feature to kick off batch when a file becomes available.
Control-M's performance in building, scheduling, managing, and monitoring workflows is amazing. I love Control-M and enjoy working on it. I appreciate how it has automated our workflow because before we had Control-M, it was a manual workflow that was open to user error and took much longer to complete because of the manual checks we had to do before we moved on to our next piece of batch. We've been able to automate it and this has enabled us to triple our workflow.
Having more options with regards to scheduling in Control-M would improve it. There are certain scheduling features that aren't available currently in Control-M, which would be nice to be added.
I've been using Control-M for six years.
I assess the stability and reliability of Control-M as very reliable because we very rarely have any downtime. The only time we would ever have any downtime is during our reboots, which we need to do failovers for, and those are very brief. When we are actually doing our batch, I don't remember a time we've had any downtime on our production side.
Control-M scales with the growing needs of my company brilliantly. It's been really good for us. We've added so much to it over the last two or three years. We've added more users, more jobs, and all different types of jobs including OS jobs, MFTs, and file watch, and it's been absolutely no problem for us to add. We've probably doubled our amount of jobs in the last two years, so we've had absolutely no problem with it. It's scaling perfectly.
My experience with customer service and technical support has been positive. Anytime we've had a problem, which is very rarely, or we've had a question, it's always been answered very swiftly or I've looked through the community myself. The community is actually really good, and I really appreciate that side of it because I even contribute on that side. I've never had a problem.
Positive
We were using an in-house product for running our batch before integrating with Control-M. Control-M enabled us to automate that batch, but it also enabled us to bring in many more things that weren't currently being done by us.
The biggest return on investment for me when using Control-M is the reduced errors, quicker runtimes for our batch, and making the job easier.
I have not considered other solutions while using Control-M.
Control-M's performance has improved our timing and the speed of the releases. It's halved our release speed basically in the last two years.
The measurable benefits and improvements my company has achieved with Control-M include reduced errors, which is the first big one. Before we used the previous in-house software, we would have a lot of manual errors that would have to be changed manually if there was a change in a variable or anything else. Now it's all automated, and the system runs for itself. We've tripled our workflow and we are doing more in less time than we used to previously.
Control-M has enabled new capabilities and business processes that weren't possible before. Our integration with external partners has become easier due to the MFT capability that we weren't doing before. Now we're able to connect through them. These were manual processes done through moving files manually from one server to another, through different partners, but now we're able to integrate it all as one.
Regarding licensing, we handle licensing through endpoints. We've had to increase our endpoints because we're increasing the amount of workflow we have and the amount of jobs that we have. We've had to increase the number of endpoints we've needed. It's very easy to handle the growth and it's easily done.
I haven't used the Control-M Python client, but I've used a small amount of API.
I have not been using Control-M since I've been in my company because I've been in my company since 2009, and we started using it in 2019.
The impact of the migration to Control-M on our business-critical operations has led to fewer errors and fewer failures. Our biggest success story has been the lack of errors. Even when we do have errors, having the outputs available to us allows us to clearly see what the problem is.
I would rate this review ten out of ten.
