Control-M Scalability

WB
Maintenance Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

I have never run into any problems scaling, either vertically or horizontally, with Control-M. In each version, it just gets better. I am really happy with that.

We were one of probably the first companies who bought MFTE, and it was not ready yet. It didn't scale properly. It didn't offer the functionality that the competing tools that we were currently using had. It's grown tremendously because of our input and feedback directly to the developers and BMC. I'm not complaining about it, but it put us back a bit. We have learned not to be a very early adopter. We have seen the same with the cloud. Everybody wants to jump on the cloud, but nobody knows why. They just want to do Cloud. We've made a substantial investment with MFTE. It was a couple of hundred thousand euros, and it was not ready yet for our enterprise requirements.

Our monitoring team who does 24/7 monitoring. They handle the alerts. They check their job flows. They make sure escalations are going through. If tickets need to be logged, make sure that gets done. They also interact with ad hoc requests from customers. 

There is the scheduling team who does the job definitions, updates, etc. 

There is the administration team, which I'm part of, with administrators who look after the infrastructure, Enterprise Manager, servers, agents, gateways, etc. Recently, we also have a dedicated MFT team that only looks after MFT because of the huge number of customers, requests, and requirements.

Other customers who use it are really all across the board. We had a presentation last week to our bigger department that is worldwide, but which we are a part of in South Africa. We have noticed about 52 main departments, then the sub-departments, between them. A lot of them sit right across the enterprise. Typically, the most active users would be SAP users who checks for output on the jobs running on Control-M. It is just 10 times easier to do it in Control-M than on SAP itself. We also manage to keep the output for longer than SAP. What they can't find on SAP after seven or 14 days, they can usually find with us, e.g., outputs for the jobs or logs. 

There are the MFT users who love being able to see each morning that their file was transferred, how long it took, and how big the file was. A lot of self-service users are using the Self Service function. Team leads and operational staff use it most.

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AS
Subject Matter Expert at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

I would give the scalability a nine out of 10.

In our environment right now, out of 20,000 jobs in Control-M, 15,000 are SAP. We are planning to expand our usage of Control-M to Power BI, Business Warehouse, PeopleSoft, and Azure. Those are in our pipeline right now.

We have about 25,000 users of Control-M on different projects, in the U.S., Japan, India, and Asia Pacific. Some are monitoring programs through Control-M, some are only doing scheduling. Some are responsible for designing, others for the implementation before the licensing. And once this transition team is done, the operations team comes into the picture for monitoring. We have a separate team for integration, as well.

The number of people we require for day-to-day administration of Control-M depends on the job size and the user requirements. We work in an offshore and onsite model. We have a key administrator over the 20,000 jobs, seven schedulers, and nine people on the monitoring team, and that work is done 24/7. The schedulers and admin work 24/5.

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RS
Sr. Automation Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's highly scalable. You can run five things in it today and easily scale up to run 1,005 things tomorrow. In terms of scalability, there are no issues there.

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Chris Wahl - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Engineer at West Bend Mutual Insurance Company

The scalability is excellent, we're looking into options in Azure for scaling up and down in our environment, and Control-M has been essential in accommodating that.

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EY
IT MSP at Ryerson

I would rate the scalability as nine out of 10.

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BB
ITSM Implementation Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is excellent. It's easy enough to spin up another server and add it to the server group.

Pretty much every application that we have in this company has some kind of Control-M piece to it. That's everything from accounting and payroll for our stores and customer interfaces. We're pushing and pulling data and doing different job-related things for almost all applications.

We'll continually use Control-M. Our IT business has 3,400 people. Control-M is mostly used by some of our development teams, traditional application development groups that develop our in-house applications. We have our system administrators, our infrastructure teams, IT security, operations, and those types of groups.

We require only one staff member for day-to-day administration. She was responsible for all the day-to-day administration of the tool like adding users, provisioning users, making sure hotfixes are applied to system upgrades.  

We recently did overall system health initiatives. It was also a point of contact for our operations scheduling group. If they have questions on the tool if there are any issues, or things of that nature.

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HK
AVP - Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is very scalable in terms of job execution. I haven't really explored scaling Control-M and the EM environment to a point where we have hundreds of users accessing it at a given time. That's because I don't have a hundred users who want to access that at a given time, but I do understand that you can distribute the web server more, and then have a load balancer to balance the load. I would think Control-M is a fairly scalable application.

In terms of its users, we have a lot of application support folks. We do have some developers who access Control-M mostly for the non-prod environments to execute and monitor their own jobs. There are some software engineers and operational engineers who are part of the application support teams that access Control-M. As for size or concurrent users, we have about 50 concurrent users at the max.

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Shane Bailey - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Engineer at CARFAX

There are no limits. You can easily scale up depending on your workload or whatever you need in a very short time. You can pretty much automate it at that point.

It is being used extensively in the organization. We do have multiple locations, but because we're using a web client, it is hard to say exactly how many end users are using it at this point. It is a company-wide solution. So, we probably have a couple of hundred users at this point.

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RS
Sr. Automation Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's highly scalable, so as your enterprise grows it's very easy to continue adding in agents or to expand out your management platform, with little or no downtime.

We use Control-M for financial applications across the spectrum, including marketing, data analytics, data analysis, and partner management. We continue to grow and as new things come online we're adding them in.

They do a really good job in terms of how they expand the product and keep up with the times. It's very cloud-centric, but at the same time, it can also handle legacy-type stuff. Overall, they've done a very good job on that.

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Balabrahmam Chakka - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Administrator at Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd

The scalability of the latest version is a drastic improvement compared to version 7.

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KV
Sr Integration Developer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Its scalability is good. We would like to increase its usage, but its price is a challenge.

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Matt L. - PeerSpot reviewer
Batch Analyst at Ferrellgas Partners, L.P.

It seems like Control-M can handle just about anything.

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GM
Control-M Administrator at Cognizant

Our organization is pretty big, with approximately 250,000 employees, and we have multiple projects that use Control-M. We have approximately 150 applications in our current project, and there are about 175 employees that are actively using Control-M. That is across three different countries.

It is easy to scale. It can handle a lot of job flows and it's easy to create multiple jobs to run at the same time. We are expanding in terms of jobs for the same application because they have a lot of upgrades going on at the application level. 

We are not planning to expand the number of applications in our project as of now. We do have requests, but it's a slow process. We can add perhaps five or six applications a year.

Overall, we have no problems in terms of scalability. 

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YN
DevOps Expert at Saint-Gobain ADFORS CZ s.r.o.

The scalability of Control-M is very good.

We plan to expand the jobs Control-M is running, including operating system jobs, and then maybe database jobs such as SQL Server and Oracle. Currently, we have more than 2,100 jobs and we are planning to have 30,000 within two years.

In terms of the number of our employees who are using Control-M, we have about 40 admin users, including on some support teams, our SAP team, and our job-creation team. On the business side, we may have about 15 users. For day-to-day administration of Control-M we need three to five people.

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Issam OUASSOU - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant IT at Société Générale Maroc

The scalability is excellent.

We have about 13 people who work regularly with Control-M. We are all engineers and IT managers, and I am the main administrator. The other administrators are in charge of their specific applications, and they need access to Control-M because they need to see the execution plans for the applications that they are in charge of.

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Nagarajan Sankarammal - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable; we increased our usage over the years and plan to continue that. 

We have multiple teams at multiple geos and deployments; we're an enterprise-sized organization.

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KK
Director Information Technology at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's fairly scalable. For our needs, it scaled very nicely.

We have a shared model where we have a centralized, shared service organization when it comes to data. Different people will use it, but it's centralized.

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LP
SAP Solution Manager and Control-M Admin at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

Its scalability is good. We have more than 100 end-users of this solution.

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RS
Sr. Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Right now, we are running on their small database model. We, at one time, had about 2,500 jobs, and we were on a medium model then. Now, we're down to about 800 jobs a day. It's just a matter of the requirements we have. In terms of scalability, it scales up very nicely. It works very well. You can have multiple servers if you need multiple servers. Currently, we have one Control-M server and one EM server. We used to have two Control-M servers and one EM - EM being the enterprise manager, which is really what's running the system. The Control-M servers basically take care of the current runs, what's currently running on a system. Adding more jobs and adding more resources to it is not a problem.

It does high availability. We don't use the high availability due to the fact that we have another solution. We run everything in a virtual environment, and take regular snapshots if the system goes down. Should that happen, the snapshots are replicated from our production site to our DR site. We bring up the latest snapshot in the DR site if we lose the production site. It's up and running within minutes, literally. It's just a matter of going in and saying, "Bring these servers up." And they come up.

Currently, we've got three schedulers using the solution. They have more or less God rights, although they can't change user permissions. Those three schedulers can do anything with the jobs - delete, add, create, whatever. We have about 10 operators that have access to it as well. The operators have a somewhat reduced role from the schedulers. They can do a lot of it. They can bring in jobs, they can rerun jobs, they can kill jobs, however, there's a lot that they can't do. Then we have probably about 60 users that are developers, and they're basically read-only. They can see the jobs, they can see what happens. A lot of it has to do with corporate decisions on control. They didn't want the developers to be able to define jobs and items of that nature. They wanted the developers to define the job through a worksheet, and then the schedulers would actually implement the job. That's just a matter of policy, basically. They monitor their jobs that way. I'm trying to allow them to be able to at least bring in their jobs, for test - not for production - so that they can make it policy change here. If they could do that, it would greatly enhance their ability to get testing done. The downside to that is that you might have a developer that just keeps running the job over and over, and over, and over again, which I've seen happen too. Personally, I can do everything in test. I can't do anything in production at all, except view jobs. I have read-only on everything in production, except for the configuration part of it, to which I have full rights. I used to almost be a fourth scheduler at one time. At this point, there's no need. The limits of my job have been redefined several times.

Overall, the usage of the product in the company is very extensive. There's not a part of our daily businesses that's not reliant upon Control-M. If Control-M was done, the company would be at a standstill, literally.

That said, likely we won't increase usage. The company we just merged with, another organization and it's debatable as to how these things go. They have about 5,500 jobs. We used to have a lot of jobs like that, however, the business drives what we do. 

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SS
IT - VP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We really haven't pushed it to any of its limits. No scalability concerns have come up for what we are doing.

If you came to me, saying, "Hey, I was looking at Control-M, but it has some issues." I am going to sit there, and go, "Tell me what the issue is." Right now, we are not using the far reaches of whatever cloud providers are out there. Control-M does well with the major providers.

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AB
Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Right now, it's a small deployment and we have it in four environments. We have it in our dev, QA, UAT, and production environments. Right now, there are two application teams that are using Control-M, however, we have another two or three teams that are looking to get onboarded.

It's pretty scalable. I haven't done a deep dive look into it the scalability, and we haven't identified a need yet to scale out. It seems pretty scalable, yet I'm not sure as I can't speak from personal experience. I don't have experience with it yet.

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SL
Project Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability-wise, there are no limitations. We have between 500 and 600 users including our DevOps team, applications teams, and others. For example, some people work on solving problems, others handle scheduling, and some only use it for viewing or monitoring the workflows.

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SM
Senior Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is a very scalable solution. 

Almost all our end user application teams are using it. 

For day-to-day administration, we have two people. For scheduling, we have four people. 

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DU
Operations Support Analyst at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

I haven't seen any problems with scalability in terms of performance or stability. 

There are at least 50 people using Control-M. Some of them would be architects, senior programmer analysts, database administrators, Unix administrators, software engineers, and team leads.

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SD
IT Operations Specialist at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

We run it on windows as well as Linux, and we are still trying to work on getting it to our DR site. But, I believe we are able to process quite a bit through there.

We use it for our I series AS 400. We also use it for Google Cloud, Cognos, ADP, many custom applications that we run as well, but we do a lot of I series.

I do not plan to expand it to other applications in the future.

My department consists of eight people, and we are mainly data center analysts. I'm their manager. We also have developers with a select few developers that are able to get in and view it, but they cannot actually create anything. They can just view and see what is running.

Between five to 10 users are responsible for the day-to-day administration of Control-M.

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Richard Meyer - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It's pretty scalable. You can stand up a ton of agents and you can stand up a ton of servers, if you need scheduling servers. Scheduling and agents are definitely very scalable.

There isn't the ability to really scale the EM (Enterprise Manager) a ton, although the GUI can be scaled somewhat. I don't know how much of a need there is to be able to scale the EM. We don't seem to have issues on the EM side, for the most part.

We're definitely having issues with the gateway between the EM and the scheduling server, but BMC is telling us that it's because we're running too many file transfers on the scheduling server. They say that if we stand up more scheduling servers, that should resolve that issue. We'll see if it does, if we still have any issues after we spread the load of MFT, not only over more agents, but also over more schedulers. If we still have issues after that, I think that would mean you're pretty limited in how you can scale your EM. That is the one thing about which I'm not sure how well it scales.

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Ramesh Subudhi - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I have never faced any issues with its scalability.

500 to 600 people are actively using Control-M. These are business analysts, team leads, managers, developers, and senior developers. Anyone who is touching the development and production would have access. 

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ST
Junior Unix Specialist at Oy Samlink Ab

Scaling has been pretty simple and a straightforward process. We just recently got the Control-M Workload Change Manager, which is an additional plugin to the main software. That installation was also quite easy. We got it up and running pretty quickly.

We have about 10 people using Control-M actively, who are system specialists and business intelligence specialists. We have three admins, then we have some batch job designers from the mainframe team using Control-M. We have also trained some of our Informatica people so they can monitor their own workflows and create new jobs. They can basically do whatever they need to do by themselves. 

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DG
Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's scalable. We use it across multiple states, geographically. We have about 1,600 end-users. 

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BK
Electrical Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Control-M is scalable.

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AK
Tech lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Currently, there is not a heavy load of Control-M jobs. There are around 500 jobs, and we have around 30 controlling agents. We are now moving from the Window jobs and getting into using it for other jobs. We are also planning to upgrade to a newer version. So, there would be much more dependency on the Control-M application. 

The client installation does not have that much usage. People are moving to the web-based interface. On average, 10 people use the client, and 20 to 25 people use the web application.

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EA
System Engineering Manager at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees

The scheduling process has been able to handle almost everything that we have asked it to do. It seems to be able to run pretty much anything from anywhere within our environment.

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NP
Director at a performing arts with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have different areas: real estate, games, social activities, and healthcare. The scalability for us is really important because we have different agents installed by business area. We don't mix it. Also, we have to always buy our VM servers per business area, so we can upscale how we want, which is really nice to have in Control-M. Critical jobs can run from different servers if something is not working.

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AH
IT Specialist TWS at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I'm not sure how the scalability works. I'm a bit confused by the process. I can't say for certain how easy or difficult it is to scale.

Likely 400 to 500 people are using the solution at this time.

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JoseQuintero1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Services Manager at a tech services company with self employed

The scalability is quite good. The framework lets you start with Control-M Enterprise Manager and add other products as you see fit. We added MFT, then Control-M for databases, and Oracle Business Intelligence. One of our customers added Control-M, including the agent for IBMI and another for Azure.

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CG
System Programmer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have not had any problem with scalability. The bank has been growing for the last 15 years, and we had no problem with Control-M. Control-M has adapted to our growing architecture. All new applications that we have, such as SAP, Informatica, or databases, are covered by Control-M.

We have about 40,000 processes per day. We also have 100,000 execution per day. All batch processes are integrated into Control-M from different systems, such as Windows, SAP, Informatica, etc. All file transfers between the headquarter and the branches and the external providers are managed from Control-M.

The bank has 6,000 employees. The system and IT teams have about 600 people. We have about 30 people for operations, monitoring, and implementation. In the technology area or system programmer area, we have six people. All of them are using Control-M.

We work around the clock, and we have three teams that work per day. Each team has about 10 people. We have people for Operation Console who are looking at batch processing in terms of whether it is working fine. Four people are there to implement new jobs in Control-M. They are working with the calendars and resources. We have three people to administer the product, and there are other people to administer the jobs on Control-M. 

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GR
Control-M Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We keep growing in number of jobs. We have more jobs every year, and it is never a problem. Everything still runs like it is supposed to. It works quite well, and there is never an issue with the job count getting bigger.

Compared to large companies, we are small as far as our Control-M footprint.

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DG
Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is not a problem. It absolutely extends with our needs and the jobs that it needs to run in. At this time, it is running payroll reports and other payroll jobs. We are looking at expanding this to other applications in the future, although there is nothing definite yet.

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VJ
Systems Engineer - Senior Control M Admin at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We did initially face some confusion with the GUI servers. What happens is, when you log in to the tool, it automatically picks up the last used GUI server and most of the users, who aren't schedulers or administrators, wouldn't have bothered to check that field or change it. So with more users logging in at the same time, we would have a huge load on the servers and the tool would hang or disconnect or wouldn't connect. We were able to fix it when we created multiple GUI servers to share the load, and some education for the users. :)

I remember another instance during my initial experience with Control-M. There used to be a delay with the NDP (New Day Procedure) as the number of jobs were really high, and it took around 45 minutes to 1.5 hours some days. I haven't seen this issue again, though, and since I didn't get to work in-depth with Control-M back then, I am not sure if that was in fact the tool or our servers having hung processes.

Another instance was when we accidentally had more jobs running at the same time (around 200K Control-M jobs) than what our servers could handle; it all came crashing down. I think it could have been something our servers weren't built to handle, as I did hear of some stories where the company ran 500K jobs at the same time (can't vouch for that story, or how it went for them though).

But these were mostly situational issues, and we were able to learn from it and quickly resolve it, find workarounds/solutions or better server management. So, when we built any new environment, we took all of these into account.

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RS
Senior Engineer - IT Infrastructure at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

As per our requirements, it is okay most of the time. We do not need to search for another solution. It is very scalable.

There are currently 700-plus people using Control-M services. Their job roles are software developers and system engineers. 

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SP
Lead Consultant at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Now that we are using the supported version, we can leverage a lot of the features. Going forward, it's going to be very actively used by all our business teams, including all the applications teams. We don't have many jobs at the moment, around 200 or 300 jobs, but down the line, in the next six months or year, we are going to double that count.

It's a good tool, and they're coming up with a lot of new features and a lot of improvements on the scalability side. Version 20 might have come up with more features and more performance-related things.

Control-M is running multiple applications for us, including SFTP, MFT, Arkin, Informatica, and Java. There are also a lot of BA jobs and a few OS jobs. We have also integrated some of our reports with Control-M and I'm running them on my local machines. We are planning on expanding Control-M to other applications in the future. That's one of our next steps, to go to applications at the organization level. We are working on it.

We are not heavily dependent on Control-M as of now, but we are slowly migrating to it. Our users of Control-M are developers and application owners, which puts our number of users in the double digits. There are some business users as well. But it's more the application side and the team leads who are using it. Previously, I worked with a very big financial company where we had thousands of jobs. Everyone was using it there.

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PW
VP Control-M Scheduling at Northern Trust

We're going to see the scalability soon when we upgrade. 

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it_user505632 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not encounter any scalability issues. Control-M can handle multiple servers, multiple cross-platform agents, and a large number of jobs easily.

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RG
Batch Scheduling Administrator at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

There are some limits to scalability in terms of cloud integration. There is some integration with cloud services but it is very simple. It is called the Application Integrator Module. This is a very good feature but the problem is that if we have to interact with cloud services, we need to create all of these modules on our own. We are paying a lot of money for a product where we have to create our own modules, which is not perfect.

It is very good that we have the Application Integrator available but for services that are being used by a lot of companies, we need official support from BMC.

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RS
Sr. Automation Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is highly scalable.  We can run one job or a million jobs, with ease. We've never had an issue.

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BB
Application Automation Deveoper at iPSL

Our job footprint is very low, so we never faced any scalability issues. From the documentation, it is my understanding that virtually, there is no limit to its scalability.

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LF
Manager Digital Solutions at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

As we increase the number of tasks or jobs on the system, there are concerns about cost.

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it_user675882 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

No scalability issues at all. When we grew, we upgraded the server and it was back to business as usual.

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AR
Production Engineer at Alphaserve Technologies®

I rate them nine out of ten for scalability.

On average, the control team consists of around fifteen people. This ranges from the elements of both which is the monitoring team and the L2 support which is for the scheduling team. Then there is also L3, who is the administrator. Apart from that, we have certain business users that will use the help service module often.

If we are looking at a 24 path sell and support, we would need close to seven members on a daily basis. That's the same for L1, L2, and L3 teams to each do daily support. L1 would be for monitoring, L2 for scheduling, and L3 is administrative.

We do have certain programs to increase usage down the line, which we're considering. I would say close to 60 to 65 percent of the company is using Control-M right now.

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it_user682857 - PeerSpot reviewer
Control-M Workload Admin at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mostly on our end, as we grow learning how to properly increase resources of the distributed servers and spread out the workload.

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DT
Digital Business Automation Team Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have not had an issue with scalability per se. If there is any kind of resource crunch, the customer just needs to add resources. If it is a memory usage, then add memory to the virtual machine and you are good to go. 

You can have jobs at multiple customer sites. For that, there is a different level of scalability altogether from an infrastructure perspective.

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it_user512079 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Development Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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RR
Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is feasible to scale. We have not found any hiccups.

For an environment with about 80,000 jobs running per day, it requires at least 10 people to monitor it and three people to administer it.

Centralized monitoring and administration can be achieved

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it_user682359 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
ZS
AWS Certified Solution Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Its scalability is fast.

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HB
IT Operations Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability depends on the cost. Expanding can be very costly.

Whenever new things come in, we request them to be moved to this solution.

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FS
Presales- BMC Software at TechAccess

It is scalable. Its licensing is not based on the number of users. Its licensing is based on the number of tasks that you're using. You can have as many as 100 users, but in the environments that I have seen, there were between 10 to 20 users. You have administrators who can design the workflows, and you have operators who just monitor the results.

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it_user520743 - PeerSpot reviewer
Middleware Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues. The way the product is tiered makes it easily scalable.

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it_user506682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operational Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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CM
System Admin and Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are probably one of the largest users of Control-M due to the amount of work that it does for us, and we could have it doing more. We are currently upgrading it.

We haven't had any serious outages in quite a long time, even through the large growth that we have had. We've doubled the work in the last year and a half to two years, and it's handled it seamlessly. 

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it_user540414 - PeerSpot reviewer
Master Scheduler at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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MS
Production Support Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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GR
Sr Operations Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's very scalable. The product does technically work with any other hardware, using its agents, so it's very scalable.

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it_user518730 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues; the product is scalable.

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RD
Actimize Implementor and Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have not seen any issues with Control-M in our production environment. However, in the lower environment, we can see frequent log-outs. That could be an issue with how much they have allocated. 

In our organization, the development team uses it, as does the bank team. They monitor it. If a job fails, for example, Control-M sends out a notification and the team can take a look at what happened in the logs. They can do it on the fly instead of dealing with the issue later on. 

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CM
Pre-Sales Engineer, Solution Architect, Technical Area Coordinator at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

It is very scalable. All our clients are big companies.

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SD
IT Manager at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees

I don't think the solution is very scalable. The version we're currently using is discontinued and I haven't upgraded yet. We don't plan to upgrade soon, because we're working on our other back-office software that's more for our business.

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JH
Team Lead at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Control-M is very scalable.

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it_user676749 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Yes, it is not currently suited well for the Cloud.

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it_user499695 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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SL
Technical Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It provides general scalability.

There are about a dozen people who use the solution: administrators, operators, and observers.

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JP
E-Business Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a good application for scaling. We're able to scale pretty fast, whether we're building a small or large set of jobs. When we have new servers being built, agents are already put on them, and we can work pretty quickly without having to step back to handle it.

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Workload Automation Wizard at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user676545 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I have no particular issue to report.

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it_user515760 - PeerSpot reviewer
Control-M Developer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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CM
Pre-Sales Engineer, Solution Architect, Technical Area Coordinator at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The solution scales well. If a company needs to expand it, they can do so rather easily.

Typically, our clients are large-scale enterprises.

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JL
Software Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Its scalability is good. It is easy to scale. Our clients are medium and big enterprises.

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it_user896988 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Procurement at a renewables & environment company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability is excellent.

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Assistant Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is good.

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Senior Technologist at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
it_user118770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Service Management Architect at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

BMC Control-M is an easy-to-run, scalable, robust platform or architecture tool.

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it_user512901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Control-M Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not really encounter any scalability issues; it is very scalable, especially with agentless technology.

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it_user676302 - PeerSpot reviewer
Produktionssteuerung at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user512913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user500652 - PeerSpot reviewer
Production Control Analyst with 501-1,000 employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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it_user687186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We did encounter a few scalability issues. Sometimes, there are too many jobs in our environment on different servers, but that’s not the tool issue, we can simply increase the FS size. However, that requires bank cost; hence the scalability issue.

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it_user675912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Specialist at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user538239 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability

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it_user63360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal, IT Data Research and Mining Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's as scalable as we've required. We haven't seen any problem.

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it_user783723 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Security Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
it_user709788 - PeerSpot reviewer
Production Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
it_user705060 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant, Production Control Services at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
it_user505659 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr System Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues. It is a very scalable product.

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it_user500040 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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it_user505689 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user540252 - PeerSpot reviewer
App Support Sr. Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not experience any scalability issues.

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it_user535422 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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SM
Technical Consultant at Atgen Software Solutions LLP

I have not encountered any issues with scalability.

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Buyer's Guide
Control-M
March 2024
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