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OpCon
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Axway Automator
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Control-M
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Featured Review
Krystle Brown
We don't have to rely on somebody to manually do the same process over and over again, risking human error
The most significant benefit is time savings, which translates into money savings. It's hard to quantify how much time we've saved. When we first... Read more →
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AbdulBudhwani
Provides a holistic view of jobs, a nice interface, and offers lots of plugins
It provides a holistic view of jobs that are scheduled to run. We haven't done full production on it yet. Hopefully, we'll be in production by July... Read more →
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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing is very reasonable."
  • "OpCon cost us $80,000 in 2017 money, and that included everything: support, installation, onsite assistance during the conversion, etc. It's been a worthwhile investment by far."
  • "We currently renewed with one of their new technology bundles. It's around $36,000 annually. We run a query of our SQL in our SQL database to see how many jobs we run. They're charging us per usage and whatever add-ons you want to use with OpCon."
  • "It used to be per machine, so we had X number of devices licensed. Now it's not. If we had a lot of machines, the new license might've decreased the cost. Unfortunately, we didn't see the same gains."

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  • "The cost is basically $100 a job, give or take."
  • "This is an area where it is a little difficult to work with BMC. They want to do licenses by job, which is what we have. For example, the simplest is to license by job, but they can also license by nodes. While the licensing is simple to use, it might not be the correct licensing model for the customer. It is okay because we want to license by job, which is something measurable. At the end of the day, licensing by job is the most important."
  • "The cost of the hardware is high. Because you need to license each job, it is costly."
  • "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."
  • "Initially, our licensing model was based on the number of jobs per day. That caused some issues because we were restricted to a number. So at our renewal time we said, 'We want to convert from number of jobs to number of endpoints.' That cost us extra money but it gave us additional capabilities, without worrying about the number of jobs."
  • "BMC's price is based on the number of jobs."
  • "You must accept that BMC licensing can be very confusing. No one can easily understand how they calculate things, whether it is user-based, job-based, or server-based. The calculation is quite tough. How BMC calculates licensing is not easily available anywhere."
  • "There are human costs in addition to the standard pricing and licensing of this solution."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about OpCon?
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is the automation in general.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpCon?
    Top Answer:The licensing and pricing model changed this last year, so we're getting used to that. I think it's ultimately going to… more »
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    What needs improvement with OpCon?
    Top Answer:I'm sure there's plenty that could be improved, but some of the biggest pain points aren't necessarily a fault of OpCon… more »
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    Top Answer:As soon as you have an issue, a ticket is created and the tech support is quite responsive.
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    Overview

    OpCon is a robust and flexible platform capable of scaling up to meet the needs of clients running 140,000+ daily jobs across multiple environments and operating systems. Our proven migration framework helps clients painlessly transition from outdated or cost inefficient platforms thanks to our deep organizational expertise, REST API, and extensive library of legacy connectors. We have a variety of consulting options available for clients and offer no-cost training for the life of the contract.

    Axway Automator is a complete scheduling solution for automating real-time and near real-time IT and business processing in increasingly complex infrastructures, such as batch, web services and ERP processes. By intelligently and dynamically integrating events, dependencies and schedules into business workloads across the enterprise, Automator can help you reduce implementation costs, minimize organizational changes, optimize process management and IT resources and gain global visibility across IT and business operations.

    Control-M simplifies application and data workflow orchestration on premises or as a service. It makes it easy to build, define, schedule, manage, and monitor production workflows, ensuring visibility, reliability, and improving SLAs.

    • Accelerate new business applications into production—by embedding workflow orchestration into your CI/CD pipeline
    • Scale Dev and Ops collaboration, with a Jobs-as-Code approach
    • Simplify workflows across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform integrations
    • Deliver data-driven outcomes faster, managing big data workflows in a scalable way
    • Take control of your file transfer operations with integrated, intelligent file movement and visibility
    Offer
    Accel­er­ate dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion through work­load automation
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    Automate repetitive tasks so you can focus on projects that drive your business forward. Find out how OpCon workload automation enables you to create repeatable, reliable workflows - all managed from a single platform.

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    Sample Customers
    LOHR, Carnival Cruise Lines, Herbalife, Digital Federal Credit Union, Synergent, Frandsen Bank & Trust
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    CARFAX, Tampa General Hospital, Navistar, Amadeus, Raymond James, Railinc
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm78%
    Insurance Company8%
    Government4%
    Manufacturing Company2%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Insurance Company10%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company39%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Retailer9%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm32%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Retailer8%
    Healthcare Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company32%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Insurance Company8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise43%
    Large Enterprise31%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise76%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise63%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise78%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Axway Automator is ranked 21st in Workload Automation while Control-M is ranked 1st in Workload Automation with 42 reviews. Axway Automator is rated 0.0, while Control-M is rated 8.8. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Control-M writes "Allows us to integrate file transfers more readily, resolve issues quickly, and orchestrate a diverse landscape of vendor products". Axway Automator is most compared with Automic Workload Automation, Tidal Automation and AutoSys Workload Automation, whereas Control-M is most compared with AutoSys Workload Automation, IBM Workload Automation, CA Workload Automation ESP, ActiveBatch Workload Automation and Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition.

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