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Control-M vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.4
Control-M boosts efficiency and reduces costs with enhanced productivity, centralized job management, and improved data handling for enterprises.
Sentiment score
8.2
Red Hat Ansible Automation expedites provisioning, reducing costs and burnout, while enhancing efficiency and scalability across hybrid environments.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.4
Control-M support is praised for responsiveness and expertise, despite occasional response delays and challenges with ticketing and documentation.
Sentiment score
6.8
Red Hat Ansible provides valued community resources and variable official support, with high user ratings and some module limitations.
They do not always provide timely support.
Solutions are available on the web.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Control-M offers excellent scalability and adaptability, efficiently handling significant workloads across diverse IT environments for enterprise growth.
Sentiment score
7.1
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform scales well but requires adjustments for environments exceeding 500 servers, like clustering and provisioning.
As the workload on Control-M increases, its scalability is much higher.
It can absorb more workload wherever needed.
Ansible can face scalability issues, such as limitations when trying to scale up infrastructure.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Control-M is praised for its stability, reliability, and improved performance, crucial for handling complex, high-volume operations efficiently.
Sentiment score
7.6
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is praised for stability and reliability, with minor compatibility concerns easily adaptable.
 

Room For Improvement

Control-M needs enhanced reporting, flexibility, automation, integration, reduced costs, and a user-friendly web-based interface for improved usability.
Red Hat Ansible requires improvements in scalability, user interface, module support, integration, documentation, and compatibility for enhanced usability.
There should be an automation system for developers to set it up more easily and quickly.
The UI can be challenging for new users due to its learning curve.
More library support for microservices architecture and Kubernetes would be helpful.
 

Setup Cost

Control-M pricing is costly for small enterprises but seen as valuable by larger ones due to its features.
Enterprise buyers find Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform pricing influenced by nodes and endpoint choice between free and paid versions.
Pricing is generally affordable, though some features cost a bit more.
 

Valuable Features

Control-M excels in user-friendly automation, integration, and scheduling, enhancing workflow efficiency and reliability across diverse applications.
Red Hat Ansible Automation excels in agentless automation, ease of use, scalability, role-based access, and extensive community support.
Automation is more advanced, deployment is fast, and version control has been simplified.
It is integrated into our CI/CD pipeline.
The automation capabilities streamline deployment processes, providing reliability and reducing manual intervention and errors.
 

Categories and Ranking

Control-M
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
119
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (3rd), Managed File Transfer (MFT) (4th), Workload Automation (1st)
Red Hat Ansible Automation ...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (3rd), Configuration Management (1st), Network Automation (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Control-M and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Control-M is designed for Process Automation and holds a mindshare of 4.2%, up 3.8% compared to last year.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Configuration Management, holds 16.3% mindshare, up 16.2% since last year.
Process Automation
Configuration Management
 

Featured Reviews

Pedro Fuentes - PeerSpot reviewer
Cost-effective, excellent support, and centralized access and control
They have a department that handles requests for enhancements. I talked to Control-M guys back in October or November when they had a gathering here in Atlanta. We talked about not being able to go back in history in Helix Control-M for more than two weeks. We submitted a request for enhancement. They told us that they are working on it, and they are thinking of expanding that to 30 days. We would like to see it expand to 90 days, but they are working on it. In Control-M, we were able to go back 180 days, but that was on-prem. The storage of that data was on our own servers. We know that storage is money, and we do not expect them to store that much of the data, but at least 30 to 60 days seem proper.
Muralitharan KS - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficient server management and detailed reporting with flexible deployment capabilities
We are primarily using Ansible for automation purposes as it is a configuration management tool. It is utilized for various activities such as DNS activity, changes to web servers, virtual host settings, and other day-to-day tasks, all of which are templated in Ansible Ansible allows us to manage…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
Educational Organization
31%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Control-M compare with AutoSys Workload Automation?
Control-M acts as a single, centralized interface for monitoring and managing all batch processes, which is helpful because nothing gets left unattended since it is all visible in one place, and th...
What do you like most about Control-M?
First of all, the shift from manual to automation has been valuable. We have a tool that can automate.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Control-M?
Pricing is generally affordable, though some features cost a bit more.
What is the difference between Red Hat Satellite and Ansible?
Red Hat Satellite has proven to be a worthwhile investment for me. Both its patch management and license management have been outstanding. If you have a large environment, patching systems is much ...
How does Ansible compare to Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM)?
Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager takes knowledge and research to properly configure. The length of time that the set up will take depends on the kind of technical architecture that your org...
What do you like most about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?
The most valuable features of the solution are automation and patching.
 

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