Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer vs Control-M comparison

Axway and BMC are both solutions in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category. Axway is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.0, while BMC is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4. Axway holds a 3.8% mindshare in MFT, compared to BMC’s 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of Axway users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of BMC users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer and Control-M are both leading solutions in the file transfer and automation sector, with Control-M having an advantage in feature richness, primarily due to its comprehensive automation suite which justifies its pricing.

Features: Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer stands out with its strong security, compliance capabilities, and detailed auditing features. Control-M is notable for its advanced workflow automation, comprehensive integration options, and its flexibility and versatility in handling various data transfer and automation processes.

Room for Improvement: Axway could improve by offering more flexible deployment options and enhancing customer support levels. Control-M, meanwhile, could work on simplifying its interface to reduce the learning curve for new users and ensuring quicker response times for issues arising in cloud environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Control-M offers a more versatile deployment model that includes both cloud and on-premise options, supported by strong customer service. While Axway's deployment is straightforward, it generally requires more on-premise setup, and its customer support could be more robust.

Pricing and ROI: Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer is appealing in terms of initial cost. However, Control-M's pricing structure reflects its extensive feature set and benefits, presenting a long-term value advantage due to its broader range of capabilities and integration options.

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Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer vs. Control-M

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Categories and Ranking

Axway AMPLIFY Managed File ...

Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)

10th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Control-M

Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

138

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (2nd), Workload Automation (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category, the mindshare of Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer is 3.8%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Control-M is 4.4%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Managed File Transfer (MFT) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Control-M	4.4%
Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer	3.8%
Other	91.8%

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

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Sayantan Sarkar

Technical Lead at HCL Technologies

User-friendly and doesn't take much space when getting installed

When it comes to the tool's scalability, I cannot say that everything can be done in the best version. There is always a scope for improvement. The tool can try to make it a little bit more flexible so that we can easily invoke the APIs, and in such a way, it can be made a little bit better. In general, everything is fine with respect to the tool's scalability. My company has encountered some challenges. The tool does not allow the explicit port for some of the protocols, like FTP. We are still selling the tool to some of our clients. I feel they should allow us to do some testing for the SMB-related protocols or Windows path-related protocols, which we are not allowing, making it difficult for us to identify the issue with respect to those SMB protocols as well as Amazon S3's protocols. I believe it is an area that needs to be fixed so that it will help the end customer do those types of tests without the help of another external tool. As of now, I can remember only these two scenarios where improvements are needed.

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Mark_Francome

Senior System Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Easily connects to different platforms and ties everything together in a centralized screen

Areas of Control-M that have room for improvement include the reporting feature. The reporting on Control-M hasn't changed much over the years, although it is in a different internal format. It used to be Crystal Reports, and now they've upgraded that. It would be better if that was really flexible where you could define your own reports. You can customize it a little bit, but when people come in with complex questions, you should be able to use that tool and access anything in the database. Control-M has two internal databases that are core to the product. You can go in and do your own SQL queries against the database, but this reporting tool should really be able to do everything that you can do with SQL, and give you good information. Instead, you end up having to export to spreadsheets and then change and update them. It can be very labor-intensive to get this information out. Other than the reporting, they've addressed most things over the years. Control-M is a tool that's been around for more than 30 years, so they have actually fixed most issues that you would encounter. They have a request for enhancement process that most users have sent requests to, but it doesn't move very quickly. The other challenge is they're supporting so many different platforms; BMC just wants it to be a trouble-free release. When users request new features, such as improved reporting, BMC's priority remains maintaining a clean-running system.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Axway consolidated all of our communications into one platform, simplifying network and port management. Now, all we have to do is open one port to this application, and we can remove all the firewall rules on that port. It's much more straightforward to manage from a security perspective. We used to rely on an archaic FTP solution, but Axway features SFTP, so it was an improvement security-wise."

"It is an easy-to-use and stable product."

"The product is simple for encrypting data transfer of all the assets in our system."

"AMPLIFY has all the essential features for managing file transfer."

"It’s very flexible."

"The product's initial setup phase is pretty straightforward."

"It makes a logical link between the inbound/outbound transfer, and makes it clearly visible. This is a very important feature for managing transfer with different environments, and it's very helpful in case of troubleshooting."

"It provides a good amount of storage capacity for a reasonable price and has a good range of connectors."

"The reporting is top-notch. I haven't found any other applications on the market that can replicate what Control-M offers. The alerting is very good, and I think their service monitoring is the best in the industry."

"Control-M has helped us resolve issues 70% to 80% faster. It provides us with alerts instead of having someone go to that particular server and check the logs to determine where the issue is. We can simply click on the alert information, then everything is in front of us. This provides us with time savings, human effort savings, and process savings."

"I am proud to say almost all of the banks in South Africa are using it."

"Most valuable feature would be the ability to detect and notify when a process has not completed successfully."

"The best features of Control-M include the fact that you can easily connect different platforms—for anybody coming to it, if you needed to script a solution that connected Windows and Unix and mainframe, that would be difficult, but with Control-M, you can just sit back and connect a COBOL program running on the mainframe, trigger something on the Windows platform, then do a file transfer on Linux, and that's all basically just drag and drop."

"The Control-M interface is good for creating, monitoring, and ensuring the delivery of files as part of our data pipeline. There's a wealth of information in both the full client, as well as the web interface that they have. Both are very easy to use and provide all the necessary material to understand how to do various tasks. The help feature is very useful and informative and everything is very easy to understand."

"It is an enterprise tool that integrates with all the applications in our organization. It has made our life easier because we don't need to wake up at midnight and do monitoring, etc. It does everything. It also sends precautionary alerts. If a job or activity is running for more than the specified time, it alerts the application team. So, our teams do not need to sit in front of a laptop or any open application to watch the jobs. They can do their other regular activities while Control-M takes care of all the jobs. It notifies them when there is job completion, delay, and error."

"Control-M is a very powerful tool and very dynamic and helps us a lot on a daily basis."

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Cons

"The initial setup was quite complex."

"The areas in need of improvement are the monitoring and the cut-off management, when needed. Today you have at least two solutions: Buy the other Axway suite, Sentinel, or integrate it into your monitoring system."

"Improvement in Data Encoding would be very appreciated (I'm thinking of ASCII-EBCDIC, ASCII-ASCII, etc.)."

"Sometimes, the application's embedded databases couldn't perform well for a higher volume of data."

"We only hope that they continue to keep updating the solution and improving the offering. They could always do more updates and releases."

"It is complicated to manage multi-operations, particularly in handling file name changes within file transcripts."

"One area of improvement is troubleshooting. When a transfer fails, they provide little information about the login, which makes troubleshooting difficult. Also, file transfer scheduling is primitive. By that, I mean you can't define a complex schedule, like scheduling a job to run at particular hours multiple times in a day."

"Their monitoring is not up to the mark and needs improvement."

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"One thing we have criticized is the MFTE capabilities, particularly regarding high availability. BMC hasn't provided a setup with multiple fallbacks for error situations."

"We have some plug-ins like BOBJ, and we need a little improvement there. Other than that, it has been pretty good. I haven't seen any issues."

"Advanced File Transfer (AFT) has limitations that cause us to use a bit more licensing than we feel is appropriate."

"I talked to Control-M guys back in October or November when they had a gathering here in Atlanta. We talked about not being able to go back in history in Helix Control-M for more than two weeks. We submitted a request for enhancement. They told us that they are working on it, and they are thinking of expanding that to 30 days. We would like to see it expand to 90 days, but they are working on it."

"I do not have any specific suggestions for additional features that should be included in the next release."

"We did encounter a few scalability issues. Sometimes, there are too many jobs in our environment on different servers, but that’s not the tool issue, we can simply increase the FS size. However, that requires bank cost; hence the scalability issue."

"Control-M could benefit from incorporating AI features for better job scheduling."

"Some of the features are not available. We were about to deploy the REST API, but we had some challenges. We had to use a third-party application. So, it should be improved in terms of integrating REST API jobs. That was something that was lacking. The customer was not that happy in terms of getting the desired output. So, we had to use a third-party application called Hangfire. We would like to have more videos on REST API integration, and we would like to have easy integration with the Control-M application through the REST API."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"AMPLIFY's license is a one-time investment."

"The platform's price aligns with the market."

"Pricing and licensing is related to the protocols you choose to support."

"It is quite expensive, and because of that, we get good service from them in return for the price paid."

"This product saves hours in a day based on my experience working here versus other companies with manually operations."

"The cost of the hardware is high. Because you need to license each job, it is costly."

"The product price is reasonable. I rate the pricing an eight."

"For the tooling that you get, the licensing is acceptable. It has competitive pricing, especially with all the value that you get out of it. There are additional costs with some of the additional modules, but they are all electives. Out of the box, you get the standard Control-M experience and the standard license. They're not forcing some of the modules on you. If you decide that you do need them, you can always purchase those separately."

"In our environment, pricing depends on the total number of maximum jobs that can run, which is fine. Therefore, if the number of jobs increases, then the licensing fees will increase."

"The pricing is moderate, not too low or too high compared to other solutions."

"As we increase the number of tasks or jobs on the system, there are concerns about cost."

"They are expensive. If we were a small company, it would be complicated because we have to have strong sales and operations to be able to afford a tool of this level. Being a large company, the cost-benefit is covered, but it is not within the level of cheap solutions."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Healthcare Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	114

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer?

The product is simple for encrypting data transfer of all the assets in our system.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer?

There's infinite pricing available on their portal, however, it's typically accompanied by a discount. However, detailed pricing information is confidential and was not shared in this call.

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What needs improvement with Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer?

Their monitoring is not up to the mark and needs improvement. They should have enhanced auto-reconnection capabilities for interrupted file transfers and implement features allowing chunk movement ...

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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...

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What do you like most about Control-M?

First of all, the shift from manual to automation has been valuable. We have a tool that can automate.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Control-M?

Control-M is expensive and not cheap at all.

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Also Known As

SecureTransport, Axway SecureTransport, AMPLIFY MFT

Control M

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Overview

As a multi-protocol MFT gateway, Axway SecureTransport provides the flexibility you need to support virtually any MFT use case. Secure, manage, and track file flows among people and applications inside your enterprise, and beyond your firewall to your user communities, mobile devices, and the cloud. Perform high-volume automated file transfers between systems, sites, lines of business and external partners, to user-driven communications and mobile, folder- and portal-based file sharing.

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Control-M by BMC is engineered to manage hybrid cloud workflows, offering orchestration capabilities starting at $29,000 annually. Aimed at helping growing teams, it efficiently supports cross-environment scheduling and automation needs.

Control-M offers robust cross-platform scheduling, automation, and integration with applications such as SAP and Informatica. Users appreciate its ease of use with a graphical interface, centralized management, and monitoring capabilities. Advanced features, including Managed File Transfer, automated error handling, and real-time alerts, enhance productivity. The ability to unify workflows and support diverse environments makes Control-M a trusted tool in many sectors. While improvements in reporting flexibility and API integration with tools like ServiceNow are needed, addressing performance issues during upgrades could enhance its value. Offering improved support for new technologies and cloud environments is beneficial, with cost-effectiveness being a consideration.

What are the key features of Control-M?

Cross-Platform Scheduling: Facilitates seamless task management across various OS environments.
Automation: Provides efficient workflow automation for complex processes.
Third-Party Integration: Ensures smooth integration with applications like SAP and Informatica.
Graphical Interface: Simplifies job management and monitoring with user-friendly design.
Managed File Transfer: Enhances data transfer processes with structured handling.
Real-Time Alerts: Offers notifications for immediate response to workflow issues.

What benefits should organizations expect from Control-M?

Increased Efficiency: Streamlines operations and reduces manual workload.
Enhanced Productivity: Automation and monitoring features boost operational output.
Improved Compliance: Supports SLA achievement and regulatory requirements.
Operational Agility: Provides flexible and adaptable task management across platforms.

Control-M is leveraged in industries like finance for enterprise scheduling and data management, supporting mainframe, Linux, Unix, Windows, and cloud platforms. It contributes to workflow orchestration and workload automation, improving operational efficiency and enhancing IT infrastructure across those environments.

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Sample Customers

BNP Paribas Securities Services, Bollor_, E.ON AG Group, BMW Group, IdenTrust, Gassco, International Post Corporation, SNCF, DB Schenker Logistics, Logius, CSCA, La Poste

CARFAX, Tampa General Hospital, Navistar, Amadeus, Raymond James, Railinc

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