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BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer pros and cons

Vendor: BMC
4.4 out of 5

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PROS

BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer provides strong integration capabilities with APIs, supporting extensive application integration.
It is known for its ease of use, delivering secure and faster file transfers, which are critical for business operations.
The solution offers high stability and scalability, managing thousands of jobs efficiently while enabling easy disaster recovery.
Control-M Managed File Transfer's automation and orchestration features help businesses reduce IT operation costs significantly.
Users find its dashboard and recovery features valuable for monitoring, maintaining job schedules, and enhancing operational efficiency.

CONS

Control-M/Server and Control-M/Agent structure could be improved.
Scalability needs enhancement, especially considering cost.
BMC technical support requires improvements, especially in providing support in Spanish and offering more knowledge.
License pricing should be reduced as it can be prohibitive for some organizations.
Improvements are needed for integration with more solutions and newer applications.
 

BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer Pros review quotes

MF
Senior System Specialist at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees
Oct 11, 2020
The product works very well with the modules. If you have MFT, Managed File Transfer, or the old AFT, you can link that to processing jobs.
reviewer1289280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Feb 20, 2020
It has a nice dashboard for loading up the file transfers, so it's easy to follow the success or failure rates of the operations.
reviewer1194051 - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA-WLA BU DIRECTOR at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 9, 2020
Our customers find the self-service feature the most valuable. Control-M offers great value to businesses by providing an option to see different flows and control and orchestrate the sequence of the execution. It is easy to use and integrate with different solutions. It is a good solution that is easy to implement and deliver.
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reviewer886464 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Oct 22, 2021
The solution supports all file transfers.
reviewer938901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 9, 2021
This solution has a vast amount of features and with every new release, there are lots of new features introduced. The application has high availability—we have multiple customers and it's highly available. On an application level, if something goes down with the primary, then the application goes over to the secondary, so it's very, very easy to do disaster recovery. From an application integration point of view, it has a lot of APIs, rich APIs. Every month, they are releasing new APIs and new updates, like Java, but more than that. Now they are introducing a couple more APIs, which you can use to integrate your controlling environment with any applications you want.
reviewer1207266 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Sales at a tech services company with self employed
Apr 5, 2022
I am a partner and an implementer for Control-M. Once purchased by my clients, I implement this solution and provide daily support for this scheduling tool.
reviewer1207266 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Sales at a tech services company with self employed
Apr 11, 2022
BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is highly stable. It is enterprise-grade software. Doing a job of 10,000 to 20,000 the solution is very stable.
MF
Senior System Specialist at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees
May 26, 2022
The most important aspect is the ability to integrate different platforms.
DT
Consultant at Temperley Research Ltd
May 31, 2022
The GUI is good if I'm comparing it to other scheduling products.
Vitor Manuel Carneiro - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Planning and Control - BMC Job Scheduling Specialist at NOESIS Portugal
Jun 17, 2022
The scalability of this solution is very good. The current solution is used wide spread in my company, but I don't have any plans to expand.
 

BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer Cons review quotes

MF
Senior System Specialist at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees
Oct 11, 2020
The structure between the Control-M/Server and Control-M/Agent could possibly be improved.
reviewer1289280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Feb 20, 2020
Scalability is something that needs to be improved.
reviewer1194051 - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA-WLA BU DIRECTOR at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 9, 2020
Their support can be improved. I would like them to provide support in Spanish and have more knowledge.
Learn what your peers think about BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2026.
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reviewer886464 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Oct 22, 2021
The solution lacks a graphical user interface for reporting.
reviewer938901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 9, 2021
The only improvement I would suggest is the license pricing should be a little reduced. Apart from that, I don't see anything else as a major concern with the tool right now.
reviewer1207266 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Sales at a tech services company with self employed
Apr 5, 2022
This solution could be improved by making it possible to better control GUI when interfacing with other systems.
reviewer1207266 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Sales at a tech services company with self employed
Apr 11, 2022
BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer has a scheduler and what they do is capture the steps based on the script, and then they put it into the Control-M job, or task. Any system that has the script behind it the solution can do it.
MF
Senior System Specialist at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees
May 26, 2022
Password vaulting would be a feature that should be included.
DT
Consultant at Temperley Research Ltd
May 31, 2022
I'd like to see MFT included as part of the overall product and not a cost add-on as AFT used to be included and they stopped supporting that and now have come up with MFT and you now have to pay for it separately.
Vitor Manuel Carneiro - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Planning and Control - BMC Job Scheduling Specialist at NOESIS Portugal
Jun 17, 2022
I believe that the API should be upgraded with security control from the DM. There is Currently no security for the app API solution.