My company uses BMC Control-M to manage our applications from SAP and Informatica ETL.
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A tool that offers users great technical support along with an easy installation phase and good stability
What is our primary use case?
What needs improvement?
I don't see any area where improvements are needed in the product since the tool has a lot of capabilities. One can opt for either a job-based license or a job execution-based license, which sometimes can be troublesome. If the job count exceeds a limit, you may need to procure additional licenses from BMC. I don't see any issue with the product's capability or functionality apart from the aforementioned issue where improvements are needed.
The price of the product is an area with certain shortcomings that stem from the expensive nature of the product and can be considered for improvement by BMC.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using BMC Control-M for ten years. In my company, we use BMC Control-M Version 9.0.21. My company is a customer of BMC.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a highly scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
More than 300 users, consisting of batch operators, job schedulers, analysts, and administrators, use BMC Control-M in my company.
In my company, we use the solution daily.
How are customer service and support?
I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
I rate the product's initial setup a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.
The deployment process of BMC Control-M took less than an hour.
What about the implementation team?
My company had an in-house team to take care of the product's deployment phase.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I rate the solution's price a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is low or really affordable, and ten is high or really expensive. It is a really expensive tool.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend the solution to those who plan to use it.
I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.
A solution offering a good dashboard and technical support while providing ease of file transfer
What is our primary use case?
It is used for file transfer, both inbound and outbound, including B2B.
What is most valuable?
Dashboard and recovery are the features I found most valuable in the solution.
What needs improvement?
I think that in the latest version, they have already improved. We still have to work on the latest one since we are still installing it. So we have not completed the installation. Post that, I think we'll see what needs improvement.
We have some issues on the SAP side of BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer. When I talk about non-SAP and SAP sides, I think with large volumes, one needs to install multiple agents. So that is something which should not be there. But at times, it is recommended by BMC. So, there are some stability issues when it comes to SAP side. The aforementioned details can be considered for improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer for ten years. They released the latest version two days ago, and we are going to upgrade it to the latest version.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a standard pre-requisite that if we grow, then we have to double your CPs and other stuff. So, scalability is not an issue.
Since we are using the enterprise version, there are maybe more than 100 users that are concurrently logged in to the application.
How are customer service and support?
We have used BMC's technical support, and we found it to be great. BMC has very good knowledge articles and other stuff, so that is good.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is simple. Last time, it took around one and a half or two and a half hours to get the whole installation and migration done. So, now it can be done in less than one hour. BMC provides an AMIGO plan, and we follow that for deployment.
We handle multiple customers. So, the staff needed for the deployment and maintenance really depends on the number of customers.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend the solution to those planning to use it since it is good to use.
There are some stability issues when it comes to SAP side, and hence I rate the product a nine out of ten. However, considering the Non-SAP side, I rate the overall product a ten out of ten. So, an average rating of the overall solution would be nine out of ten.
Upstanding Job Management Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The best sides of the Control-M tool are that it shows jobs more clearly and orderly. This tool also allows you to set the jobs flow view as Map / List / Gantt chart.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only dislike I have in the Control-M is that when you try to load the entire host jobs in the planning section, it will take some time as numerous jobs are present under each server.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Control-M helped me to identify jobs that come under each folder with specific applications. Also, I can monitor those details through the history tab to check for the past history of the jobs flow. That's quite impressive!
Control m is featured tool, we can control and integrate it with multiple applications
What do you like best about the product?
Integration with multiple applications and features available to enchance scheduling
What do you dislike about the product?
Its little complex. There are something that can be made simpler. So if possible please look into it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has multiple scheduling features so everytime it solves scheduling requirements
Great application
What do you like best about the product?
User friendly application. Was able to schedule rpeort with less interupption and challenges
What do you dislike about the product?
My experience with control-m application was good. I was able to fulfil user requirement with it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automatic Report scheduling is done
Good tool
What do you like best about the product?
It help to monitor large scale data using that we cam also schedule our job
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much , we need to give automated features
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hped to schedule my job
Best tool for automation
What do you like best about the product?
We use automated Control-m jobs to do our housekeeping of MQ servers. So we had to set up the control-m jobs.
It helps to automate most tasks requiring you to log in to the server and spend 10-20 minutes. When you have thousands of servers, there is no option for control-m.
It helps to automate most tasks requiring you to log in to the server and spend 10-20 minutes. When you have thousands of servers, there is no option for control-m.
What do you dislike about the product?
Multiple times the Control-m jobs used to fail. So we had to do the task and restart the control-m jobs manually. But this happened rarely. When you compare the overall tasks done by control-m, I don't mind some failures.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Control-M helps to automate a large quantity of work which will require an extra human resource. If you can automate the task, you can utilize the human resource in much better use.
Pawan's Review
What do you like best about the product?
Its all very synchronized and neatly designed to run projects in
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it lags and does not seem to work
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Chain jobs are easy to operate
Great tool for scheduling ..few things are missing
What do you like best about the product?
Connector with all kind of tools like , database ,goanywhere ,unix , informatica,azure ,Salesforce etc
What do you dislike about the product?
Control is required ..even control resource having the limitations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Current team using different kinds of tools and to schedule & making dependency is quite difficult with out control-M
good in Workload Processing and easy in Administration Console
What do you like best about the product?
Workflow Management and easy consule for adminstration
What do you dislike about the product?
API / Integrations with other applications
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation and managing workflow become more easier
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