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Camunda vs Control-M comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

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
7.8
Camunda enhances financial companies' efficiency and cost-effectiveness with streamlined processes, reusable code, and reduced operational expenses.
Sentiment score
7.4
Control-M enhances efficiency, reduces costs, and centralizes management, benefiting enterprises but may be complex for smaller businesses.
The main return on investment with Helix Control-M has been a reduction in downtime and minimization of manual interventions, which has improved our operational efficiency.
It has reduced the total cost of ownership by 30% to 40%.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
Camunda's customer service is praised for engineer support but has mixed reviews on responsiveness, knowledge center, and pricing.
Sentiment score
7.4
Control-M technical support is praised for responsiveness and knowledge, though initial ticket handling and documentation need improvement.
AWS provides the best support, followed by Microsoft, and then Google.
They provide better support for the enterprise edition.
The technical support is very polite, helpful, and available 24/7.
Solutions are available on the web.
They do not always provide timely support.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
Camunda provides scalable solutions with technologies like Spring Boot and Kubernetes, though database configuration may present challenges for some users.
Sentiment score
7.7
Control-M is scalable and efficient, handling large workloads with few issues, integrating well with various applications.
Camunda offers a high level of scalability, especially when using its SaaS model, which manages and scales implementations automatically.
It allows for easy scaling, especially with ECS service configurations.
It can absorb more workload wherever needed.
As the workload on Control-M increases, its scalability is much higher.
I would rate it a nine out of ten for scalability.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Camunda is praised for stability and reliability, with minor integration challenges and occasional bugs, rated 7-10 by users.
Sentiment score
7.7
Control-M is praised for its stability, reliability, and minimal downtime, despite occasional minor compatibility and infrastructure challenges.
There haven't been any significant outages in my experience with Camunda.
The downtime is higher compared to AWS.
The stability of the Helix Control-M solution is good.
 

Room For Improvement

Camunda's platform faces user dissatisfaction due to poor user-friendliness, documentation, performance, and costly licensing, needing significant improvements.
Control-M needs enhanced roles, better integration, flexible reporting, simplified licensing, seamless automation, and improved user interfaces.
More open documentation would be beneficial to understand the deployment process better and facilitate easier setup.
There is an issue where, in some situations, I need to scale up by observing both CPU and memory usage of containers, yet under the current options available at Amazon, this is not possible.
They could provide more documentation and tutorials to make the initial setup easier to understand.
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.
 

Setup Cost

Camunda provides cost-effective enterprise licenses, though costs can rise with usage, posing concerns for smaller companies.
Control-M offers fair enterprise pricing but can be expensive, depending on jobs, infrastructure, and licensing model.
For some services, such as hosting databases, Google is really expensive.
There is a licensing cost for using the SaaS model and Enterprise edition of Camunda.
Pricing is generally affordable, though some features cost a bit more.
It is a little bit expensive.
The pricing is moderate, not too low or too high compared to other solutions.
 

Valuable Features

Camunda offers flexible, lightweight architecture supporting BPMN, CMMN, and DMN, with user-friendly, non-programmer interfaces and seamless integration.
Control-M excels in cross-platform workflow scheduling, user-friendly interface, automation, real-time monitoring, and proactive SLA management.
ECS also allows for horizontal scalability with thresholds that can be configured for CPU or memory.
The user interface is comprehensive and lets me view all my jobs on one page, monitor everything, and access the job history.
Automation is more advanced, deployment is fast, and version control has been simplified.
It is integrated into our CI/CD pipeline.
 

Categories and Ranking

Camunda
Ranking in Process Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (1st)
Control-M
Ranking in Process Automation
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
120
Ranking in other categories
Managed File Transfer (MFT) (4th), Workload Automation (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of Camunda is 28.1%, up from 27.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Control-M is 4.5%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Process Automation
 

Featured Reviews

FABIO NAGAO - PeerSpot reviewer
Reduces costs with hardware abstraction and simplifies scaling
There is an issue where, in some situations, I need to scale up by observing both CPU and memory usage of containers, yet under the current options available at Amazon, this is not possible. I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory to scale my solution. Not every software is built for deployment as a container service, although the current architecture trend is changing this.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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One of the things we like best about Bonita is that you can create without coding - it is a low-code platform. With Bonita, you can build the entire mechanism using the GUI, it’s that simple. You c...
Which do you prefer - Appian or Camunda Platform?
Appian is fast when building simple to medium solutions. This solution offers simple drag-and-drop functionality with easy plug-and-play options. The initial setup was seamless and very easy to imp...
Which would you choose - Camunda Platform or Apache Airflow?
Camunda Platform allows for visual demonstration and presentation of business process flows. The flexible Java-based option was a big win for us and allows for the integration of microservices very...
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.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Camunda BPM
Control M
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

24 Hour Fitness, Accruent, AT&T Inc., Atlassian, CSS Insurance, Deutsche Telekom, Generali, Provinzial NordWest Insurance Services, Swisscom AG, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VHV Group, Zalando
CARFAX, Tampa General Hospital, Navistar, Amadeus, Raymond James, Railinc
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