BMC Control‑M Alternative
Avoid The Business Risk Of Legacy Scheduling Tools
BMC’s Control-M job scheduling core technology hasn’t changed in more than a decade. In the era of digital business, it’s a dinosaur. It can’t compete in a world where technology is rapidly evolving and enterprises innovate and optimize. With security issues, manual processes, costly add-ons and one of the highest TCOs in the industry, Control-M just doesn’t cut it. And the fact that multiple licenses and products are needed for file transfer activity, change management tools and application workflow doesn’t help its cause.
Automation And Orchestration For The Enterprise
Using Control-M in the modern digital landscape leaves you open to risk around reliability, functionality and cost. It means that you lack the flexibility to respond to changing customer expectations and business needs.
For an independent perspective, in their “2021 Global IT Automation” report, leading analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA) shares findings from over 400 leading enterprises that are leveraging IT and business process automation today and into the future and why businesses are moving from legacy tools like BMC Control-M to a modern SaaS workload automation and process orchestration solution like Redwood.
Take A Modern Approach With Redwood
Redwood offers scalable and secure SaaS workload automation that far surpasses BMC’s Control-M capabilities. It provides a single point of control, integrated dashboards and a visual process chain editor that simplifies workflows and enables optimization. Boost efficiency and productivity with reusable templates, wizards, and a low-code drag-and-drop interface.
Redwood’s business process automation and orchestration solution frees your staff from the time they waste managing repetitive manual tasks with outdated BMC software. As it’s built as a SaaS solution from the ground up, it requires no additional hardware or downtime for updates. And our support service is available 24×7.
Migration Made Easy
Migrating to Redwood is easier than you think, with significant benefits. Redwood’s migration program provides a safe route for organizations that want an alternative to any job scheduling or workload automation tool available. For nearly three decades, we’ve successfully moved customers from ActiveBatch, BMC, Broadcom/CA, IBM, Tidal, AutoSys, Stonebranch and more.
We can provide a roadmap for your automation in the digital era, with unrivaled support that is consistently praised by our customers.
WHY REDWOOD HAS CONTROL-M BEAT
Redwood’s orchestration and automation solution reduces the TCO of automation by up to 50% compared to Control-M. This is because it offers all the functionality you need in a single package and integrates seamlessly with all your applications, including ERPs like Oracle and SAP. Redwood’s workload automation solution has been validated by SAP for full compatibility since its first release and Redwood has been an SAP partner for nearly 15 years.
- Redwood’s automation offers all the functionality you need in a single package
- Seamless cross-platform integration with on-premises systems and modern multi-cloud environments, regardless of cloud provider (ex., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), and any application or web service
- Orchestrate anything from ERPs, open-source apps, DevOps, mainframes and big data pipelines to operating system processes on Windows, Linux, UNIX and more
PURPOSE-BUILT FOR MODERN WORKLOADS
Redwood’s SaaS workload automation is superior to Control-M’s legacy scheduler because it helps you to:
Why Redwood Is Your Best Bet For Workload Automation
In its recent “RADAR for Workload Automation” report, EMA named Redwood a Value Leader and Best SaaS Workload Automation solution. The report compares over a dozen software vendors, including BMC and Redwood, looking at functionality, architecture and integration, deployment and administration, cost, and vendor strength.
Redwood’s business process automation and orchestration stood out in the following ways:
We perform almost 50,000 file transfers every day in an 800+ server environment that drives our customer service and all of our business transactions. Since moving to Redwood, we've been able to simplify the way we manage all aspects of business service automation. We keep finding new efficiencies.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are there alternatives to BMC Control-M scheduling?
Yes. BMC's "new day" scheduling is an outdated approach and is complex to manage because offsets can cause jobs to run earlier, later, or even be skipped. With new day scheduling, there is also a period of downtime while the next day’s schedule and dependencies are calculated. As an alternative, Redwood supports direct scheduling, taking adjustments like time zones into account without manual configuration. Processes can be triggered by events in real-time rather than polling. Learn how Redwood’s event-driven approach eliminates new day complications.
Should I migrate to a BMC Control-M alternative?
BMC’s Control-M solution is based on an architecture that is not well-suited to the needs of a modern enterprise. It requires a large installation footprint that is burdensome and time-consuming to update when security patches are needed. It has high operational and administrative costs as a result. A solution that performs more automation through agentless APIs and offers updates that upgrade every element simultaneously in minutes is significantly easier to run. See how Redwood’s SaaS delivery allows IT organizations to focus on automation not administration.
Would a BMC Control-M alternative reduce my TCO?
Yes. For example, Redwood’s SaaS architecture eliminates overhead for infrastructure and ongoing maintenance of the workload automation platform. Redwood also includes all features with unlimited connections to applications, services and servers, without licensing additional plugins. With Redwood’s simple pricing model, you only pay for the jobs you run, gaining enterprise-grade flexibility and scalability to help you grow. Explore why Redwood’s unified cloud platform lowers ownership costs.
See Redwood Workload Automation In Action
With Redwood’s cloud-native automation and orchestration platform, your business can transform to meet the challenges of the hybrid, digital enterprise. Achieve more through automation: more efficiency, more resiliency, more flexibility, more customer loyalty, and more opportunity. Let our team show you why thousands of leading organizations worldwide rely on Redwood to help them excel in the digital age with workload automation.
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