Control-M workload automation has become an essential platform for our production activity
November 22, 2024

Control-M workload automation has become an essential platform for our production activity

Jean Daniel Terrade | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Application Integrator
  • Control-M for SAP
  • Managed File Transfer
  • Self Service

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

We use Control-M workload automation to orchestrate business process chain accross French on-premise and Cloud platforms. With Control-M we are able to monitor major part of our critical batches. Our production is optimized and execution planning is shared with all stakeholders.

Pros

  • Reprocessing, alerting, scheduling based on calendar
  • File transfer
  • Multiples connectors using application integrator and plugins
  • Self service

Cons

  • Administration and upgrade procedure quite complex and time consuming
  • Cycling jobs with watch file transfer not easy to schedule properly
  • Use case for automation API would bring more adoption and efficiency
  • Services are delivered more accurately and faster
  • Optimization of financial monthly closing
  • Less people to monitor batches
  • Support with agility business expansion and transformation
30 - Monitoring team L1 offshore 24/7 (self-service)
Build/run team L2/L3 (heavy client)
IT application owner and project leader (self-service)
Some key users (self-service)
Very useful and efficient for automation and end-to-end monitoring
Collaborating platform very appreciated with intuitive IHM
Support large variety of connectors and integration with systems

Do you think Control-M delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Control-M's feature set?

Yes

Did Control-M live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Control-M go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Control-M again?

Yes

Well suited: end-to-end process chain / data pipelines / cloud integration
less appropriate: auditing / process chain event based / role and user permission difficult to manage / forecast not available in web portal / version management of job definition

Control-M Feature Ratings

Multi-platform scheduling
10
Central monitoring
6
Logging
3
Alerts and notifications
9
Analysis and visualization
7
Application integration
10

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