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BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer pros and cons

Vendor: BMC
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PROS

BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer offers seamless integration and ease of use with various modules like MFT and old AFT, allowing easy linkage to processing jobs.
The system provides high value with features like automated process control, scalability, and the ability to orchestrate execution sequences across different platforms.
With a rich set of APIs and frequent updates, it enhances application integration and supports extensive file transfer functionalities.
It ensures high availability and disaster recovery by automatically switching from primary to secondary applications if necessary.
Users appreciate its effectiveness in file monitoring and tracking, secure and fast file transfers, and features like Workload Archiving for storing job data for historical analysis.

CONS

Scalability needs improvement.
Support could be enhanced with Spanish language options and better expertise.
Integration compatibility with newer applications is lacking.
Stability issues are present on the SAP side.
Price adjustments are needed for more competitive licensing.
 

BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer Pros review quotes

MF
May 26, 2022
The most important aspect is the ability to integrate different platforms.
MF
Oct 11, 2020
The product works very well with the modules. If you have MFT, Managed File Transfer, or the old AFT, you can link that to processing jobs.
reviewer938901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 9, 2021
This solution has a vast amount of features and with every new release, there are lots of new features introduced. The application has high availability—we have multiple customers and it's highly available. On an application level, if something goes down with the primary, then the application goes over to the secondary, so it's very, very easy to do disaster recovery. From an application integration point of view, it has a lot of APIs, rich APIs. Every month, they are releasing new APIs and new updates, like Java, but more than that. Now they are introducing a couple more APIs, which you can use to integrate your controlling environment with any applications you want.
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Raghavaraju R - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 7, 2022
The solution is stable.
Alan Arnold - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 31, 2023
The most valuable thing is that it works as advertised. We don't take advantage of some of the features like we should because that's not our primary role and responsibility in the environment that we manage. We only want to make sure that a file gets to where it was supposed to go, or we pull in a file and it comes to us correctly.
AR
Jan 3, 2023
What I like best about BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is that it makes transfers more secure and faster. It has a recovery feature during failed file transfers.
reviewer1289280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 20, 2020
It has a nice dashboard for loading up the file transfers, so it's easy to follow the success or failure rates of the operations.
SirajShaik - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 17, 2024
Its stability and the feature list are rich compared to other tools in the market.
Shirish Kamalapurkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 22, 2023
The job scheduling and file transfer are two major, important features.
RajanChauhan - PeerSpot reviewer
May 25, 2023
Dashboard and recovery are the features I found most valuable in the solution.
 

BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer Cons review quotes

MF
May 26, 2022
Password vaulting would be a feature that should be included.
MF
Oct 11, 2020
The structure between the Control-M/Server and Control-M/Agent could possibly be improved.
reviewer938901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 9, 2021
The only improvement I would suggest is the license pricing should be a little reduced. Apart from that, I don't see anything else as a major concern with the tool right now.
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Raghavaraju R - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 7, 2022
We'd like it to be easier to maintain the administrative side.
Alan Arnold - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 31, 2023
We're only using the functionality that we need to use. However, we've had an opportunity to work with one application owner here who wanted to do some transfers in the cloud and things like that. I know that there were some challenges on that, but they finally got all that set up. There was a learning curve though.
AR
Jan 3, 2023
An area for improvement in BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is integration. It should be compatible with more solutions. It should have integrations with newer applications as well.
reviewer1289280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 20, 2020
Scalability is something that needs to be improved.
SirajShaik - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 17, 2024
I would love to see REST API integration and more plugins for Google Cloud Platform compared to AWS and Azure.
Shirish Kamalapurkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 22, 2023
The solution should improve the out-of-the box conversion tool for migrations so the percentage result isn't so low.
RajanChauhan - PeerSpot reviewer
May 25, 2023
We have some issues on the SAP side of BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer...So, there are some stability issues when it comes to SAP side.