BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer Scalability

MF
Senior System Specialist at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees

BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is very scalable.

We have an unusual setup in that we don't allow many users direct access. They must send requests to a small team that will create jobs for them. We only have about seven or eight direct users in the system, but the number of people who rely on it is in the thousands. It is a strange setup. 

Most sites are set up in this manner, with people creating jobs on behalf of the larger community. We also have Control-M Self Service, which is a web-based tool that users can't really do anything with. 

We simply have it set up so that they can only see the jobs as they execute, and that is our approach. Many businesses are reluctant to grant widespread access to Control-M because, while it can be a powerful security tool, it can also be a security risk if many people have it.

We are moving, and MicroStrategy is one of the systems we are integrating with Control-M as well as SAP. SAP users want to start using Control-M, there is nothing special for MicroStrategy, but there is a plugin for SAP that we will install and use in the future. But, it will probably be another year before we get around to fully incorporating it. It would be implemented during the PoC consideration phase.

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RajanChauhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Service Delivery Manager at LTIMINDTREE

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.

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Shirish Kamalapurkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Kinsfolk Technology Private Limited

The solution is scalable so scalability is rated a nine out of ten. 

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Surya Mani - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Control-M Engineer at Standard Chartered Bank

It's very scalable.

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MF
Senior System Specialist at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees

The product is scalable. The licensing can be an issue, some people have licenses based on the number of agents. If that's what you have then that can be a barrier to the scalability. I know sites that are running maybe a million jobs per day, even more than that, and they don't report any problems. So yes, it is very good.

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GN
Solutions Architect at Tata Consultancy

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.

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Aishwarya Deshpande - PeerSpot reviewer
BMC Consultant at Vyom Labs

I rate the scalability of BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer a seven out of ten.

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Raghavaraju R - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at HCL Technologies

It's a scalable product. I'd rate it eight out of ten in the ability to scale. 

We have 11 people on our team and about four people who handle administration and maintenance tasks. We're in four regions: Australia, Singapore, India and New Zealand. In these regions, there are two configured clusters - one in Australia and one in New Zealand. 

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DT
Consultant at Temperley Research Ltd

I've used the solution in small sites and sites that run hundreds of thousands of jobs a day. It's pretty scalable. We have about 50 users, including developers and platform engineers, using this current iteration. The client is planning to increase the usage and the new licenses will be scaled accordingly.

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MR
IT manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable. I rate it a nine out of ten.

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AR
Director Comercial at tdi

BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer has good scalability.

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AR
RPA-WLA BU DIRECTOR at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has good scalability. Our clients are medium and big companies. Small companies cannot easily buy this solution because the cost is high.

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IG
Software Developer at Money Gram

I rate the solution's scalability as seven. Our team of around 30 monitoring executives uses the solution.

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AR
Manager Application Services at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

This solution is definitely scalable. 

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Vitor Manuel Carneiro - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Planning and Control - BMC Job Scheduling Specialist at NOESIS Portugal

The scalability of this solution is very good.  The current solution is used wide spread in my company, but I don't have any plans to expand.

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SS
Sr Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

This solution is easily scalable.

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SS
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

This solution is scalable. We have more than 200 clients using Control-M.

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KN
Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

This solution is not very scalable. It can handle a lot of traffic very easily and I think that small to medium-sized businesses will have no problem with it. However, if you want to set it up in a highly available environment and you need multiple sites then these kinds of options are not yet supported.

In our company, there is only a team of a few people using this product. They are engineers and are responsible for the file transfer functionality.

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