CONTROL-M

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CONTROL-M is batch scheduling software originally written for mainframes but also available for Distributed Computing platforms including Unix, Windows, Linux and OpenVMS environments. Produced by BMC Software.

BMC Software claims that CONTROL-M is the most widely used scheduling software in large enterprises. It has many features which help maintain an organized job flow environment. It is mostly used in relation to finance and accounting where it could perform daily, monthly, yearly tasks. Tasks in this sense could be anything, for example, calculating the month revenue and expenditure.

CONTROL-M could be integrated with other tools like SAP, Oracle's PeopleSoft to act as a scheduling organizer in these platforms.

With the addition of BMC Batch Discovery in 2007, Control-M is now positioned to integrate directly into the Remedy Configuration Management Database (CMDB). This integration helps identify the relationships between batch processes and other business and IT infrastructure components.

1 Additional Features
2 Industry Recognition
3 User Groups and Community
4 External links

[edit] Additional Features

CONTROL-M can be integrated into other systems, languages and utilities to provide a common platform by which the end user can access and use the features of the various systems or tools. In addition it has several optional features that can be added on to the base product to give extended functionality to those users who need it. There is also an API available so that end users can access the scheduling engine directly.

Some of the add-on components include:

CONTROL-M Business Process Integration Suite
CONTROL-M Advanced File Transfer
Batch Impact Manager
CONTROL-M Forecast
CONTROL-M Control Module for PeopleSoft
BMC Batch Discovery
CONTROL-M e/Trigger

[edit] Industry Recognition

The Gartner research group has placed Control-M in the leadership quandrant of its Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling.

[edit] User Groups and Community

CONTROL-M has a large and active user community. This stems in part from the fact that the product itself has been around since the early 1980s. In addition to localized user groups that may meet periodically there are a number of online resources to obtain and share information about the product.