Control-M vs UiPath Orchestrator comparison

"Most of our tasks also deal with databases, and Control-M's purpose-built module for the databases comes in very handy when handling database components."

"Control-M has enabled true enterprise batch automation, which combined with the other BMC Control products on our mainframe platform, allows us to run a 24/7 site with the lights out."

"It has absolutely saved us time. It has made us more efficient. As far as the processing between systems, we don't have as many people. They have been able to focus on other efforts, because we have been able to automate more stuff with Control-M."

"The product has improved dramatically over the years; it offers a lot in terms of features and capabilities and integration with third-party tools. A wide range of models available with the product is critical in reducing manual and mundane work such as custom script writing. This saves significant amounts of time and, by association, money for the organization."

"Control-M has helped us resolve issues 70% to 80% faster. It provides us with alerts instead of having someone go to that particular server and check the logs to determine where the issue is. We can simply click on the alert information, then everything is in front of us. This provides us with time savings, human effort savings, and process savings."

"Speeds up processes and automated tasks."

"Cross-platform support: A Linux job can be dependent on a Windows job, which can be dependent on many other flavours of hardware/software. Your batch is therefore managed by a single tool, allowing you to monitor your entire flow."

"It provides a unified view where you can orchestrate and monitor all your application workloads and data pipelines. That's very important because with cloud, software as a service, edge computing, traditional data center, and legacy apps, there are all these environments. If you don't have that single pane of glass or that one place to look at, you're going to invest a lot of time and resources into tracking things down when they go wrong."

"The tool's most valuable feature is reporting. Being on the business side, I need to report on the efficiency and the business case scenarios we build upon for the RPA. I need to find and analyze the relevant data."

"Assets and logs are valuable."

"UiPath Orchestrator is a user-friendly solution."

"I like UiPath Orchestrator's screen capture feature."

"The reporting features are good."

"The response time and support quality are good."

"The product has been pretty amazing at deploying, scheduling, and running automated bots."

"The solution is easy to use."

"Its operations and infrastructure can be improved."

"A smartphone interface would be welcome."

"You need to pay for extra features if you need them."

"Some reports on the UI require some improvement since the UI is not so impressive."

"Its architecture is old. AutoSys gives more flexibility."

"It can definitely expand promotions, so that a single job can be moved. Currently you can only promote a job by promoting the entire table."

"Their technicians should be more involved when we're applying new technology to Control-M, such as cloud. We're working with cloud right now, with AWS, and getting the attention of a technician, sometimes, can take some time. It would be nice if they had somebody assigned to it. Dedicated support."

"When it comes to supporting cloud services, Control-M is a bit slow. We are not advancing with the technology because we don't have the modules that can interact or use the new application services provided by the cloud technologies."

"The tool makes the laptops slow."

"Limiting certain deployment scenarios and enforcing best practices could be beneficial."

"The solution must provide more AI capabilities."

"The solution’s licensing cost is high and could be improved."

"They could provide a more intuitive UI for the product."

"Clarity on integrating SQL databases and server configurations would improve implementation processes."

"We encounter errors while configuring and integrating the product with other vendors."

"The installation of the product on an on-premises version can take a long time and may involve some troubleshooting procedures to be followed."

"The cost is basically $100 a job, give or take."

"In our environment, pricing depends on the total number of maximum jobs that can run, which is fine. Therefore, if the number of jobs increases, then the licensing fees will increase."

"It works on task-based licensing."

"This product saves hours in a day based on my experience working here versus other companies with manually operations."

"You're going to spend a lot of money upfront, but the benefits you're going to get out of it are going to quickly pay for it."

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

"We are paying way more for Control-M than we've paid for any of our other scheduling tools."

"This is now from my previous years as support for banks and big companies. If it's not enterprise scale, I find that it's too expensive for smaller companies. You really have to be quite big and need to have a dedicated support staff to run it, then you'll be fine. What we've seen at smaller companies, it's too expensive because they want to automate everything. Now, stuff that can literally run once a day for the rest of their lives is costing them $3 a job a day. It becomes too expensive, eventually. They are not seeing the return on investment because it's not business critical. Nobody is going to die or they're going to lose money if that job didn't run exactly at 11 minutes past 4:00. It's definitely for bigger enterprise companies, especially banks or healthcare providers. We have had an instance where Control-M was unavailable due to external factors for 20 minutes and there was a loss of almost a million euros because the solution involved logistics."

"The product is quite expensive."

"The product’s pricing is a little higher than reasonable."

"The solution's price is high. We have subscribed to 15 licenses which are paid on a yearly basis. We don't pay any additional costs for support and maintenance."

"UiPath Orchestrator's price is reasonable. We pay around 40k USD. Its licensing costs are yearly."

"The pricing seems reasonable based on project requirements."

"UiPath Orchestrator is an expensive tool to implement."

"The pricing is quite reasonable, particularly with the cloud version where Orchestrator is included in all other licenses at no additional cost."

"The product has reasonable pricing."