BMC Control-M Workload Automation
Stop scheduling jobs.
Start automating workloads.
Old-school job scheduling no longer cuts it. Replace your multiple schedulers with one integrated solution: workload automation from BMC Control-M. No more islands of automation – just simple, powerful technology that's more proven than anything else on the market.
Workload automation means (a better scheduled) business
Say goodbye to your mixed bag of job scheduling applications, consoles, audits, and logins. They don't work for your business, so their days are over. With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything — down to the very last platform and application — from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really — the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can.
Job scheduling so advanced, it's actually simple
BMC Control-M simplifies IT job scheduling across the board. While its features are advanced – automated conversion wizard, customizable self service, application integration – running it couldn't be easier. BMC Control-M is simple to install, simple to get going, and simple for your business to use.
The brains and the brawn
Sophisticated smarts and big-time power come standard. Here's how BMC Control-M is better:
- It works with (nearly) everything. Automate and integrate all of your apps in one place, across all platforms and business processes.
- It automates secure file transfers across your entire enterprise. And it does it better than many stand-alone apps that cost even more.
- It keeps track of every change you make. Built-in change management makes auditing, security, and compliance a no-brainer.
- It manages what matters most. Dynamic workload management prioritizes workloads based on business needs, so you get the most bang for your buck.
Proven performance (but don't just take our word for it)
Ask the 2500+ organizations currently using BMC Control-M. You'll hear reports of reduced cost, better service, increased agility, and lower risk. Our customers trust their job scheduling to BMC because we have the knowledge, experience, and people to do it right. In fact, we've converted over 7 million job definitions. That's some serious practice.
A Magic Quadrant Leader
Gartner named BMC a Leader in its 2012 Magic Quadrant for Workload Automation.
Scheduling superpowers
BMC Control-M integrates applications, operating systems, and platforms so well, it's downright heroic.
Application integration
BMC Control-M connects the dots between your many applications. You can see everything in one place, so if something fails, you can find it fast and fix it more easily. It's single pane workload automation, and a singular way to manage your apps.
Dynamic workload management
So many alerts, so little time. Manage what matters to the business, when it matters, with dynamic workload management. Through policies, forecasting, and wide-ranging integration, you can take care of the little red light that makes the biggest business impact.
Automated file transfers
File transfers are critical to integrating information, but they fail – a lot. Recover faster with BMC Control-M. It finds the problem, automates the recovery, and restarts from point of failure. Plus, BMC Control-M relies on your native FTP protocol, which means no additional software required.
Auditing, security, and compliance
Giving auditors what they need has never been easier. With its real-time tracking and playback features, BMC Control-M tells you who did what, when, and why those changes were made. Plus, its format is auditor-friendly by default, which makes your life even easier.
Reporting and analytics
Turn raw data into critical insights with BMC Control-M's comprehensive reporting. You get stats like workload trending, fault information, forecasting, and resource utilization – so your business gets all the information it needs to make good decisions, fast.
Self Service for everyone - anywhere, any time
BMC Control-M Self Service is simplified, customized, and designed to use at your desk or on the go.
- See BMC Control-M Self Service in action:
- Already have BMC Control-M Self Service?
Customer story: Sun Chemical
Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, quadrupled its complex batch environment with zero extra headcount using BMC Control-M's Automated File Transfer features.
Customer story: Cetelem
Celetem, a major European bank, simplified and automated its entire enterprise workload process – across mainframe, distributed, virtualized, and cloud environments.
One powerful product – two simple ways to buy
Take your pick. Whether you choose BMC Control-M Suite or BMC Control-M Select, you get the features that make us the industry leader in workload automation – like single point of control, application and business process integration, advanced conversion utilities, and reporting and tracking – not to mention BMC's years of expertise and experience. Tons of great features. Two convenient ways to buy. Which makes sense for your business?
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Self Service is BMC Control-M's scheduling self management component. Using a web browser-based service view that speaks your business users' language, Self Service allows you to:
- Reduce cost and complexity by eliminating the need for business users to submit service request tickets, as well as the work associated with those tickets.
- Improve customer service by using a simple, role-based interface that provides the business user with the information they need, such as processing status of transactions, and the ability to request scheduling changes.
- Retain control and compliance by ensuring that changes are documented and logged, and that they can be configured to require approval by IT operations, if desired.
- Minimize risk by carrying through the same role-based credentialing model as the BMC Control-M base architecture to manage the rights provided to each business user — without customization.
- Achieve quick time to value by taking advantage of the simple and easy web interface, which does not require training or workload automation knowledge.
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Batch Impact Manager is a business management solution that improves productivity and reduces unplanned outages. It also:
- Manages critical batch job processing from a business perspective
- Proactively detects potential delays and errors in the batch business process to avoid interruption of business services
- Provides advanced problem analysis tools of potential SLA delays to identify their root cause and potential resolutions
- Offers extensive simulation capabilities of potential problem resolutions, eliminating a trial and error process on top of the production environment, making sure the optimal actions will be taken
- Allows you to prioritize the resolution of delayed or failed batch business processes based on their business impact
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Advanced File Transfer enables you to schedule secured file transfers with encryption and authentication, monitor file transfer run-time statistics (such as transfer rate, estimated remaining time, and more), and recover file transfer from the point of failure.
Advanced File Transfer features:
- Out-of-the-box unified file transfer management – Manages the file transfer process through a single graphical interface and eliminates the need for third-party interfaces
- Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) – Provides secure and compressed transfers both inside and outside the enterprise
- Focal point of management – Helps you manage file transfers from/to any FTP/SFTP server integrated with your business process, through a central focal point
- Quick learning curves – Lets you define file transfer jobs quickly and smoothly, in an intuitive way
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Business process integration offers:
- Key messaging capabilities, WebSphere and MQ Messaging
- Bi-directional Web services capabilities
- Java and J2EE application servers’ automation
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Cross-application support provides true enterprise workload automation by ensuring that all application jobs are included in the workflow of a BMC Control-M business process. Through this workflow, all users can understand where each application fits and how they work together. In addition, application schedulers use the existing applications' native look and feel when communicating with IT, which essentially eliminates the need for additional training.
BMC Control-M supports more applications than any other workload automation solution, ensuring that it works with what you have today and what you may have in the future.
Supported applications include:
- Enterprise management consoles
- BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management
- HP OpenView
- IBM Tivoli
- IBM Netcool
- CA Unicenter
- ERP integration
- SAP
- Oracle eBusiness Suite
- PeopleSoft
- JDEdwards
- Lawson
- Banner
- File transfer, ETL, and data integration
- Cognos
- Informatica
- SAP Business Objects
- SAS
- IBM DataStage
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- SSH File Transfer (SFTP)
- Relational Databases
- Oracle
- IBM UDB/DB2
- MS SQL-Server
- Sybase
- PostgreSQL
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Message queues
- Web services
- Java/J2EE
- BMC Software
- BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management
- BMC Atrium CMDB
- BMC Atrium Orchestrator
- BMC Bladelogic
- BMC Remedy
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BMC Control-M works across distributed, mainframe, virtual, and cloud environments. This wide-reaching coverage allows for integration and automation of business and IT processes across the enterprise.
Supported platforms include:
- VMware
- Amazon EC2
- BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management
- z/OS
- AIX
- Linux
- iSeries/OS/400
- VMS
- CentOS
- Unisys
- Solaris
- HP-UX
- Windows
- Tandem
- MPE
- Tru64
- Agentless Scheduling via SSH
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Enterprise Manager is a graphical tool that provides a focal point of control by consolidating the management of batch job processing on all applications and platforms across the enterprise. Its interactive management-by-exception abilities extend beyond job-status monitoring, providing immediate multi-destination error notification and enhanced problem resolution capabilities that increase enterprise efficiency. This includes an option to monitor and manipulate the production environment in real time.
Benefits of Enterprise Manager include:
- Simplified management of the entire business process via centralized production management and monitoring
- Maximized employee productivity through standard tools for job scheduling
- Increased business availability and shortened problem resolution cycle through advanced proactive workload management capabilities
- Reduced cost and time required for platform-specific training by providing an enterprise-wide standard tool for workload automation
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BMC Control-M's wizard-based conversion utilities reduce the effort that it takes to migrate to BMC Control-M from other job scheduling solutions. It's downloadable to your desktop or laptop, fully supported, and capable of running in parallel with your existing scheduler to guarantee the uninterrupted continuation of your production environment during the test phase. Best of all, it's part of the out-of-the-box product – not an expensive add-on.
Common schedulers supported by BMC Control-M's conversion tools include:
- CA-7
- CA-Autosys
- CA-Jobtrac
- CA Unicenter WLM (TNG)
- IBM Tivoli TWS
- Tidal (Cisco) Enterprise Scheduler
- Zeke
Plus, a new and improved mainframe conversion capability is embedded in BMC Control-M for z/OS. It's the latest from an R&D team dedicated to on-going improvements in the BMC Control-M conversion process for both mainframe and distributed workload automation.
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BMC Control-M customer support goes above and beyond to keep you efficient and productive. It includes:
- Highly-experienced support staff in over 15 countries speaking 11 languages
- A “follow the sun” approach that ensures help is available 24/7/365
- Utilization of leading support industry practices like “intelligent swarming” and “Knowledge-Centered Support (KCS)”
- The AMIGO upgrade program, to reduce time and effort associated with upgrades
- Constantly updated offerings
- Ever-expanding online options:
- Knowledge base for questions and known problems
- Automated notifications about new product releases and fixpacks
- Product Availability & Compatibility Matrix to help you validate what versions of BMC’s software will work in your environment
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An unlimited number of Full Admin and Web and Planning users can use BMC Control-M workload automation, making it scalable for any size business. No matter how many users you need to plan, monitor, and change workloads, they're all covered.
- Designate as many administrative and business users as required — without licensing limitations
- Support Full Admin users - The “power” users who require all of the extended functionality of the BMC Control-M/Enterprise Manager, BMC Control-M/Desktop, BMC Control-M/Configuration Manager, or the BMC Control-M/Reporting Facility
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