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CA Process Automation vs Control-M comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CA Process Automation
Ranking in Process Automation
37th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Control-M
Ranking in Process Automation
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
237
Ranking in other categories
Managed File Transfer (MFT) (2nd), Workload Automation (1st), AI IT Support (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of CA Process Automation is 1.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Control-M is 3.2%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Process Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Control-M3.2%
CA Process Automation1.0%
Other95.8%
Process Automation
 

Featured Reviews

SJ
Automation Solutions Developer at HCL Technologies
Added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience
We design end-to-end automation solutions for repetitive tasks performed by IT support teams This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests.  Built-in operators available for most integrations. Easy to manage. Attended/unattended…
RP
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.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Before implementing this product, our Problem and Change Management Processes were very poor, but nowadays, thanks to CA Process Automation (PAM), we no longer have this problem, as we now have all of the processes' rules placed inside of it."
"For our use it really does very well; it provides us exactly what we need, and it runs with low-resource utilization and moves quickly."
"We took our server provisioning process from about 30 days to about 4 days on the first iteration of implementation."
"Technical support is unequivocally excellent; in fact, the best customer service and technical support I’ve experienced during my 12 years in IT."
"This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests."
"The value lies in just being able to automate things such that there's less human interaction and, therefore, more consistency in our automations."
"PAM has the ability to integrate and build solutions that work well in CA's suite of service management products and those that are outside of service management."
"It’s a great product, extremely versatile but takes a certain skillset to use and implementation of automation can be time consuming when done properly."
"Ability to handle files remotely through the advanced file transfer feature."
"Its stability and the feature list are rich compared to other tools in the market."
"Control-M is a very versatile and robust tool that is worthwhile for large companies."
"It can do anything that I need. We do real-time jobs. We also do jobs that have to run at certain times. I have not been presented with a scheduling need that I was not able to do. It is very flexible and dynamic."
"If you are looking for a solution for centralized job management, especially if you have more than 100, 500, or 1,000 jobs you are maintaining, Control-M is the best solution."
"Throughout my organization, Control-M has positively helped establish certain capabilities by providing centralized workflow orchestration that replaced the fragmented scheduling and manual coordination that was previously required."
"Control-M can cross all platforms and offers integration for container and cloud solutions."
"BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer has definitely helped to reduce IT operations cost, as maintaining files manually takes a lot of human time, and this automation significantly alleviates that burden."
 

Cons

"OCR capability should be added as a feature."
"Although it's drag-and-drop, there's a little bit of a learning curve to use it correctly."
"These configurations can be changed only through the installation wizard. There's no way to update such information in the administration interface, which is, in my opinion, very bad."
"Every so often the service needs to be restarted otherwise it runs slower and slower. I think this may be due to a memory leak."
"Make some of the features more open source that way developers can have more flexibility."
"A lot of times they don't get resolved, but I'm okay with those kind of responses sometimes."
"I'd like to see additional form functionality and having Python as an available common script language."
"Better reporting, because we have to true up our licenses every three months because we license on running concurrent processes, so we have to provide a report to CA every three months using their tool -- which never works."
"An area for improvement in BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is integration. It should be compatible with more solutions. It should have integrations with newer applications as well."
"The licensing is a bit more expensive than other tools, so if a client is focused on the cost, that would be something to consider."
"There are areas for improvement, especially with the transition from the thick client to the web GUI. While Control-M's main game-changer is its GUI, the current web interface is less user-friendly than the thick client."
"It scales well, except for the cost. I have to pay per agent per server, which could be prohibitive for some organizations."
"We would appreciate improved feedback on solution response time, which would be beneficial for us, the clients, and BMC as well."
"I think Control-M can be improved because we recently moved to Helix, the cloud control, and the latency of the application is substantial; the job is running in the background, but the UI side is very slow on the front end."
"Control-M could be more user-friendly, and while it is user-friendly now, it can be improved to be more intuitive."
"Control-M could be improved by not selling Insight separately; it should be part of Monitor."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are a lot of automation savings from any process which is repeatable."
"It has provided ROI by auto resolving incidents or requests in the ITSM queue, improved MTTR and SLA adherence, and added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience."
"The cost of the hardware is high. Because you need to license each job, it is costly."
"we are more looking for a better cost/license/performance model because BMC, while we could say it's the best, is also the most expensive. That is what we are probably most annoyed with. We are paying something like €1,000,000 over three years for having 4,000 jobs running. That's expensive."
"Cost-wise, it is good."
"It depends. It's packaged in such a way that you can buy the base model without all of the fancy stuff. You can try and keep your price similar to competitors. I guess it's natural throughout the world. It doesn't matter whether you're buying cell phones or something else. The best cell phone will always be more expensive."
"We have a license till 2024. We are good and satisfied with it."
"This is now from my previous years as support for banks and big companies. If it's not enterprise scale, I find that it's too expensive for smaller companies. You really have to be quite big and need to have a dedicated support staff to run it, then you'll be fine. What we've seen at smaller companies, it's too expensive because they want to automate everything. Now, stuff that can literally run once a day for the rest of their lives is costing them $3 a job a day. It becomes too expensive, eventually. They are not seeing the return on investment because it's not business critical. Nobody is going to die or they're going to lose money if that job didn't run exactly at 11 minutes past 4:00. It's definitely for bigger enterprise companies, especially banks or healthcare providers. We have had an instance where Control-M was unavailable due to external factors for 20 minutes and there was a loss of almost a million euros because the solution involved logistics."
"I switched to this solution within the last year. I switched from the servers payment package to the job payment package, and it is very expensive."
"One of the restrictions that we had was with some of the licensing, and not having any insight on the financials part of the product. I don't know what the licensing on the product is, but we don't have an unlimited enterprise license. So, there might be a limitation on either the cost of the licensing or the number of seats."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
18%
Construction Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business44
Midsize Enterprise33
Large Enterprise194
 

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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 IT Process Automation Manager
Control M, BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer, BMC Australia CTM
 

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Sample Customers

Unum, HCL Technologies, Logicalis
The Bank of East Asia, LINE Bank Taiwan, Coop, Air Europa, Carrefour, Itau Unibanco, Snam, Embraer, ANZ Bank, EDP, Dominio's, Tampa General Hospital, W&W Informatik GmbH, Veterans General, Up Sí Vale, Sky Italia, REWE digital GmbH, Raymond James, Railinc, Navistar, Management Science Associates, Colruyt, CARFAX, Banpara, Aspiag Service, Amadeus, AG Insurance, ING Bank Slaski
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