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BMC

Data Pipelines

Simplify and scale data pipelines

  • Get a 360-degree view of data pipelines at every stage—from ingestion and processing to analytics
  • Ingest and process data from platforms like Airflow, DataBricks, Spark, Google Dataflow, Snowflake, and Azure Data Factory
  • Resolve service level agreement (SLA) issues before they become critical
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Comprehensive integrations

Orchestrate workflows and integrate data from multiple sources, including big data platforms, Enterprise Data Warehouses, extract, transform, and load (ETL) functions, business intelligence (BI) systems, cloud services, and more.


Powerful, simple interface

Build and schedule jobs through wizard-like forms that include dropdown menus to simplify selection of the correct parameters and prevent input errors. Simplify security and credential lifecycles.


Self service

Allow users to monitor and manage their own workflows from any browser. Specific checkpoints can be set to monitor the quality of the service at a high level. This helps users make better decisions with the right insights.

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Hybrid and Multi-cloud

Seamlessly manage application workflows across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

  • End-to-end orchestration of complex application workflows across clouds
  • Manage workloads anywhere, any time—including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure
  • Out-of-the-box support for key AWS, Azure, and GCP services
  • Leverage the flexibility and scalability of cloud ecosystems

Cloud support

Automate application workflows across on-premises data centers, and hybrid, public, private, and multi-cloud environments.


Full BMC Helix Control-M functionality

Access the advanced orchestration features of BMC Helix Control-M in the cloud.


Built for the enterprise

Get an enterprise-class solution for complete management of business application workflows.


AWS Services support

Out-of-the-box support for AWS Batch, Data Pipeline, EMR, Glue (and Glue Databrew), Lambda, QuickSight, SageMaker, Step Functions, S3, and EC2 virtual machines (VMs).


Microsoft Azure support

Out-of-the-box support for Azure Batch, Data Factory, Functions, HDInsight, Logic Apps, Machine Learning, Synapse, and VMs.


GCP support

Out-of-the-box support for Dataproc, Dataflow, BigQuery, GCP Storage, and GCP VMs.


BMC Helix Control-M Application Integrator authentication

Easily authorize GCP and AWS through identity and access management. Exploit Azure services through managed identity.

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Managed File Transfer

File transfers delivered on time, every time

  • Improve visibility and control by integrating file transfers with related application workflows
  • Intelligently manage file transfers from a central interface
  • Securely move files to and from every major cloud storage offering
  • Cut time between file transfers and subsequent processing steps

File transfer and business service alignment

Business services, which include both file transfers and related non-file transfer workflows, can be monitored and managed in a single interface.


Transfer files securely

Files can be transferred with Amazon S3, Azure Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Oracle Cloud Storage, file transfer protocol (FTP), secured FTP (SFTP), FTP over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption, while also being Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliant.


Automatic recovery

When network failures or outages cause a file transfer to fail, you can automatically recover and restart the failed transfer from the point of failure or from the beginning.


Centralized configuration

Authorized users can deploy and upgrade on every end point from a centralized configuration interface.


Built-in file transfer server

Eliminate the need to use third-party file transfer servers. The file transfer server supports secured transfer and authentication and can be configured and managed from the central configuration interface.

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Self-Service

Enable your teams to build, run and manage their workflows on their schedule

  • Deliver secure access for differing roles across the organization with a robust, intuitive web interface
  • Tackle complex challenges with ease
  • Automatically enforce security policies and ensure compliance
  • Be up and running instantly

Manage what matters

Users can easily see business service status with color-coded tiles to indicate service status and additional details.


Access workflow details

Job-specific operational actions (such as hold, skip, rerun, or kill) are available from an intuitive menu.


Compliance auditing

Actions taken by users are captured in audit logs and reports generated by BMC Helix Control-M.


Improved security

Built with security in mind to ensure consistency and eliminate the need for separate procedures to define and manage users. Workflow service access and credentials are managed separately by application owners or IT operations (ITOps).


Enhanced capabilities

Detailed welcome pages allow new users to quickly become proficient, and advanced search and find/update options speed routine interactions.

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SLA Management

Deliver critical business services on time, every time

  • See what matters most with a clear graphical view of business services
  • Stay in the know with automated alerts and predictive SLA delay detection
  • Access job details for remediation

Focus on business services

Prioritize services that are critical to the business by defining their SLAs in BMC Helix Control-M so all job details are tracked automatically.


Automatic monitoring

Detect potential delays quickly so users have ample time to prevent impacts to their business.


Automatic problem resolution

Leverage BMC Helix Control-M to send out notifications, open service desk tickets, and trigger automatic corrective actions when a potential delay or failure is detected.


Root-cause analysis

Quickly identify and analyze potential delays with analytics that use historical data to predict jobs run times, critical path analysis, execution time windows, and statistical trends.

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Building Job Types

Integrate, automate, orchestrate any application workload

  • Innovate faster by rapidly integrating applications and technologies alongside existing applications
  • Improve critical services by designing job types for service needs
  • Leverage both supported job types developed and published by BMC as well as crowd-sourced job types from a community of experts

Modern workflow management

Easily build flexible and repeatable workflows, using a graphical or an as-code approach, eliminating inefficient designs, saving time, and reducing risk.


Support any application

BMC Helix Control-M job types support a variety of application interfaces, including Web Services, REST APIs, and command line.


Easy to use

Intuitive web-based designer enables developers and schedulers to manage execution, proactively identify issues, and upgrade to newer versions while avoiding scripting.


Crowd-sourced community

The Application Integrator Hub allows users to share job types and easily deploy them in their environment.

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Site Standards

Ensure compliance with organizational best practices and standards

  • Improve application quality with compliance embedded into the application workflow
  • Increase business agility with a scalable platform that accelerates application workflow changes by up to 80 percent
  • Guide workflow creators with information they need to conform to operational best practices and standards

Federated IT

Enable application developers, DevOps engineers, and business users to build, validate, and deploy new application workflows using graphical or code-based interfaces.


Collaborate and innovate

Casual users unfamiliar with BMC Helix Control-M can easily collaborate with subject matter experts.


Site standards

Define and enforce standards for job names, application categories, and other elements. Apply those standards according to user roles.


Validate workflows

Application workflows created with BMC Helix Control-M interfaces or third-party integrated development environments (IDEs) and text editors can be automatically validated to ensure compliance.

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Jobs-as-Code

Workflow automation embedded in your DevOps toolchain

  • Take a Jobs-as-Code approach with JSON and REST APIs to accelerate application build, test, validation and promotion
  • Extend collaboration between Dev and Ops
  • Cut costs and improve quality by finding defects and bugs earlier in the software development lifecycle

Jobs-as-Code

Version, test, and maintain application workflows with Jobs-as-Code to help developers, engineers, and site reliability engineers (SREs) collaboratively manage them in production.


Workflow orchestration at your service

Packaged services automate functions essential for creating, testing, promoting, and running business services and the workflows they depend on.


Developer tools

Automate how workflows are built, tested, deployed, and run using your existing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) toolchain.


JSON and REST APIs

Version workflows using Git or any similar version control solution and support ephemeral infrastructure for automated deployment of test and production environments.


Enterprise support

Empower developers to access broad application integration for managing built-in and custom job types.

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Conversions

Discover and convert third-party schedulers automatically

  • Reduce errors by eliminating manual conversions
  • Cut costs by decreasing conversion times
  • Simplify conversion with automation

Automatic discovery

Use BMC Helix Control-M or BMC Helix Discovery to automatically identify Cron and Windows Task Scheduler workloads throughout your environment.


Convert any scheduler

Easily convert homegrown, proprietary, and other application schedulers with our conversion tools that evaluate, convert, and load application workflows to BMC Helix Control-M automatically.


Self-conversion

Build your own conversion rules for any file format that can be extracted or transformed into text with BMC Helix Control-M’s web interface.

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