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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs Control-M comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Automic Continuous Delivery...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Control-M
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
334
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (2nd), Managed File Transfer (MFT) (2nd), Workload Automation (1st), AI IT Support (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer895359 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Project Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Automatic installation for complex deployments and environments, with good workflow support
I like that really complex deployments are possible with it. It's very good. You have everything you need. You can design your workflows for your needs. You can do so much more, it's not just an automatic installation tool. It's a real deployment tool. I can do the complete deployment with everything that is possible.
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Batch Admin at NBC Universal
Brings data together from multiple platforms and optimizes cross-environment orchestration
The features of Control-M that I like the most include the ability to easily integrate or bring in different platforms into Control-M. For instance, AWS, mainframe, TWS, and something that's running on Autosys can all be brought into Control-M, converted to how Control-M runs it, and then the batch can be executed. This centralizes various applications in Control-M, which doesn't just have to handle batch processes, but also other tasks like reporting on required data. I find this functionality very useful and the setup is impressive, with more advancements yet to come. With Control-M, my company has achieved several measurable improvements since I started. The metrics indicate that the number of failures has dropped, and we have addressed the issue of excessive false alerts that I encountered when I joined. Previously, we received an overwhelming number of alerts daily, but now we manage to maintain that at a normalized level, perhaps around five to fifteen alerts, depending on running core batches and their setup.

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Pros

"Deployment workflow (WF) can be designed this way, so that it is not necessary to provide all applications (systems) artifacts of which an application consists."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"The product provides efficiency, in terms time, cost, and resources."
"You can design your workflows for your needs."
"What we like about the product is that it is more or less an umbrella system that allows us to integrate many different systems into our heterogeneous environment."
"The agents are one of the solution's most valuable features, and I like agents for file transfers so you can transfer the files from agent to agent on the different platforms."
"The measurement and the display functions make it easy to report all the statuses up to management, and it has helped our customers with their time, costs, and resources."
"It is a very stable solution and we can rely on pressing a button to perform a full-stack automatic installation that reliably finishes in eight hours instead of a problematic three-week manual installation."
"It has made everything a lot quicker, we've been able to get files transferred to vendors and we've been able to retrieve files from vendors rapidly and securely."
"Control-M has positively impacted our organization by automating thousands of jobs, eliminating the need for manual intervention, which reduces the chance of human error."
"I definitely recommend Control-M; it is quite stable, scalable, and the ease of administration is good as well."
"Control-M is good for easing the work that we do. It makes the work easier, simpler to understand, and faster to execute."
"Monitoring is a valuable aspect of it. The monitoring tool is very good, and it is easy for expert and entry level users to use on a short notice."
"Control-M has positively impacted my organization by improving accuracy, which is crucial in healthcare since we need to be accurate across various channels."
"Automating processes with Control-M helped my team by saving a lot of man-hours and it has completely come down to zero man-hours, as it is fully automated."
"One of the most valuable features is the encryption and decryption which happens within the job."
 

Cons

"One of the biggest features I've been asked by my team to put in there is opening more scripting languages to be part of the platform. There is a little bit of a learning curve in learning how to code some of the workflows in Automic at this time. If widely used languages like Perl and Python were integrated, on top of what's already there, the proprietary language, it would make it easier to on-board new resources."
"If you have a technical problem and need development of the tool, the support team is terrible, because they cannot help with the technical details."
"File transfer is not very efficient. It takes a bit longer than some other methods and when you send the file from one platform to another, especially from the mainframe, the results consumption is quite high compared to other methods."
"Stability-wise I think it still needs to be improved; performance-wise. It crashes from time to time."
"The stability of the solution can be improved."
"We're a WebSphere shop so I would like to see more support for WebSphere, only because it's the platform that they seem to want to use the most."
"There are some bugs. For example, during the design of a workflow, important information is lost, it vanishes."
"There is an issue with the stability in the tool. The process of agent will stop, then the monitoring agent can't be recognized because the process is running, but you can talk with the system."
"Technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"Scalability. Yes, it is not currently suited well for the Cloud."
"The quality of support is fast during production emergencies, but it can take longer when issues are not critical, with interactions sometimes taking several days."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved."
"In my previous project, I experienced lagging with refresh times of six to seven seconds."
"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."
"Most of the time we don't get the answers we're looking for."
"Consider adding a mobile application for remote management or expand the integration with My IT."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"If you have a fixed contract, it has limits to spreading out. If you have a flexible enterprise license contract, then you have a lot of scalability for this tool."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"I can save time and money more quickly."
"The price is right because of the licensing schema, which is based on nodes and processes. You purchase what you use, no more and no less, and you can grow with time."
"The solution is not cheap, it comes with quite a hefty price tag. Control-M is the market leader, but we still want the price to be as friendly as possible."
"BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is expensive."
"Pricing varies depending on which components and modules you are using."
"The annual licensing within BMC Control-M is on a per task basis. Three- and five-year contracts are also offered. The customer usually buys a bundle of tasks, e.g., 5,000 tasks, then my team configures Control-M for their usage."
"BMC does NOT have a great licensing model from my perspective."
"You're going to spend a lot of money upfront, but the benefits you're going to get out of it are going to quickly pay for it."
"We have a five-year contract with task-based licensing."
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Outsourcing Company
15%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
 

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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise9
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Small Business50
Midsize Enterprise41
Large Enterprise298
 

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How does Control-M compare with AutoSys Workload Automation?
Control-M acts as a single, centralized interface for monitoring and managing all batch processes, which is helpful because nothing gets left unattended since it is all visible in one place, and th...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Control-M?
Control-M sits at the premium end of workload automation pricing — that is no secret, and I will not pretend otherwise. My position after decades of using it: the enterprise value justifies the pre...
What needs improvement with Control-M?
My main improvement point after decades with the product is not a feature — it is the path to mastery. Basic administration of Control-M is fairly accessible: a new person can define and monitor jo...
 

Also Known As

CA Continuous Delivery Automation, Automic Release Automation, Automic ONE Automation, UC4 Automation Platform
Control M, BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer, BMC Australia CTM
 

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