Control-M vs UiPath Orchestrator comparison

BMC and UiPath are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. BMC is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7, while UiPath is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.2. BMC holds a 23.1% mindshare in WA, compared to UiPath’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of UiPath users who would recommend it.

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98% willing to recommend

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 5, 2025

Control-M and UiPath Orchestrator are key players in the enterprise scheduling and automation software market. While Control-M leads with its extensive feature set for large enterprises, UiPath Orchestrator appeals with user-friendly automation and robust AI capabilities, making it particularly favorable for RPA initiatives.

Features: Control-M is known for its robust cross-platform scheduling, enhanced job monitoring, and a wide range of integration capabilities, including connections with applications like SAP through control modules. UiPath Orchestrator offers ease of task automation, streamlined bot activities, and centralized data management. It is noted for its effective use in automation processes, supported by a user-friendly interface.

Room for Improvement: Control-M could improve its agility in job execution, modernize its UI, and enhance its reporting for better customization by end-users. Its licensing model complexity is also noted. UiPath Orchestrator could enhance its UI and optimize automation for exceptional cases. Simplifying setup processes and reducing licensing costs are potential improvements to attract more users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Control-M supports versatile deployment options including on-premises and public or hybrid clouds, making it suitable for large enterprises. It is praised for its technical support, though some users report inconsistencies. UiPath Orchestrator is commonly deployed in public clouds and its streamlined cloud-based deployment aligns with organizations preferring cloud solutions, although improvements in support could enhance user satisfaction.

Pricing and ROI: Control-M's pricing is considered high due to its wide feature set, which may deter smaller businesses. However, large enterprises find value in its extensive capabilities, realizing ROI through reduced manual processes and improved service levels. UiPath Orchestrator, although perceived as costly, competes with alternatives like Microsoft Power Automate. Its pricing could be a barrier for smaller setups, though the provided automation benefits enhance its ROI value.

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Categories and Ranking

Control-M

Ranking in Workload Automation

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (3rd), Managed File Transfer (MFT) (4th)

UiPath Orchestrator

Ranking in Workload Automation

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of Control-M is 23.1%, down from 26.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath Orchestrator is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Pedro Fuentes

System Engineer at Community Loans of America, Inc.

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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Bantu Kumar

Senior Technical Director at Globant

Improves operational efficiency through its centralized dashboard and asset management

There are overwhelming features added to UiPath Orchestrator, which can lead to complexities. Permissions, roles, and queues sometimes result in conflicts, requiring deeper understanding. I would prefer if the tool was more intuitive, and it is important to maintain simplicity instead of combining multiple functionalities, potentially through different licensing models to restrict features.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"I would definitely recommend Control-M to every institute because it is extremely helpful to manage every task without any manual error."

"Control-M has improved application reliability and the SLAs in our company by quite a bit. You can see if problems are coming. If we have an SLA in a couple of hours, we know well before that couple hours if processing is behind, and it allows us to take some preventative action."

"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."

"Maintaining and monitoring of workloads have been and continue to be the most valuable feature in our environment."

"Control-M can cross all platforms and offers integration for container and cloud solutions."

"The unified view where you can define, orchestrate, and monitor applications, workflows, and data pipelines is important because we have more than one team working on Control-M. We have a support team, a job-creation team, and a SAP team. We can all work together on it. It avoids anyone from working on his part and not using the latest modifications."

"The best feature is that we can automate everything. Moreover, we can access all the features through one dashboard, which is beneficial."

"Monitoring is a valuable aspect of it. The monitoring tool is very good, and it is easy for expert and entry level users to use on a short notice."

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"It allows for the segregation of users, ensuring each user has access to specific environments based on their roles."

"Using UiPath Orchestrator, we can deploy tasks across different environments, including virtual machines, for both attended and unattended processes."

"The centralized dashboard and asset management in UiPath Orchestrator have proven valuable in enhancing operational efficiency."

"The product helps to monitor our automation process and keep statistics. When not dealing with just one process, we utilize the business process. From there, we obtain the necessary answers, and the robot completes the process accordingly. We keep on improving our processes to become more effective. Hence, we start with a small process."

"One standout feature I like in UiPath Orchestrator is the scheduling capability."

"UiPath Orchestrator has helped us by replacing manual processes with automation."

"UiPath Orchestrator is a user-friendly solution."

"UiPath has one of the strongest community setups."

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Cons

"The high availability that comes from BMC with its supplied Postgres database is very limited. Even using your customer-supplied Postgres database is problematic. We have engaged with them regarding this, but it is difficult. My company doesn't want to do this and BMC doesn't want to do that. We just need to find some middle ground to get the proper high availability. We're also moving away, like the rest of the world, from the more expensive offerings, like Oracle. We are trying to use Postgres, which is free. The stability is good. It is just that the high availability configuration is not ideal. It could be better."

"The response time could be faster when you need a person to answer your questions. There are situations where availability becomes crucial."

"The biggest improvement they could have is better QA testing before releases come out the door."

"Sometimes, with technical support, they will take feedback, but you don't know where that feedback goes or if it proceeds along in the thought process."

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

"Control-M reporting isn't that good. It is very limited. We would like the ability to create our own reports as well as the ability to publish dashboards in the cloud, which would help us. Improved reporting will help us determine statuses and get the answers that we need. However, I personally think BMC is not focusing on the reporting. I have even visited the BMC office in India, and asked, "Why haven't you improved the reporting?""

"A Control-M on-prem license is based on the number of jobs, which is the number of tasks a particular customer wants to have. These tasks have to be run within 24 hours window. For example, if you have a license for 100 jobs, you can run a maximum of 100 jobs in a 24-hour window. If your operations could not run 10 jobs, and they ran only 90 jobs, they just carry over to the next day, but the next day, they will have 110 jobs. Control-M asks you to buy those 10 more licenses because you were out of compliance in terms of the number of licenses. This is something that needs to be indicated in Control-M GUI so that customers know the number of licenses they're going to use in this time window. Their support and documentation should be improved. I am not that satisfied with their customer support. Sometimes, they don't have the answers. Their documentation is very poor. It is not well written, and it is not in a very logical manner. You can use it on Unix, Linux, Windows, and AIX, but it needs some improvement on iSeries. It needs a built-in mechanism inside the system to give you an option to restore from the last point of failure. If a process crashes, the Control-M needs to have a mechanism in iSeries where the process can be restored from the last point of failure."

"Its initial setup is a bit complex. They could provide more documentation and tutorials to make the initial setup easier to understand. Enhancing the documentation could simplify the setup process."

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

"The solution must provide more AI capabilities."

"One area for improvement in UiPath Orchestrator is enhancing automation for exceptional cases."

"The licensing cost associated with the tool is too high. If the tool can reduce the license cost, most of the organizations will opt for it."

"One of the significant challenges we've encountered with UiPath Orchestrator is the frequent and rapid changes in the tool's interface and functionality."

"I am interested in seeing more features like document understanding and AI integration."

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

"The solution's deployment and architecture aspects could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing varies depending on which components and modules you are using."

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

"BMC's price is based on the number of jobs."

"It is not bad. The company can afford it, and it pays for itself. We have those jobs running automatically."

"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."

"There are human costs in addition to the standard pricing and licensing of this solution."

"We have a license till 2024. We are good and satisfied with it."

"The pricing is moderate, not too low or too high compared to other solutions."

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"The product is expensive, and the associated licenses add to the expenses, initially making deploying new processes costly."

"UiPath Orchestrator is an expensive tool to implement."

"Larger organizations may benefit from more favorable pricing, as the costs can be distributed across more licenses."

"The product is expensive."

"I rate UiPath Orchestrator's pricing a six out of ten."

"The pricing seems reasonable based on project requirements."

"The solution is very expensive. Compared to Microsoft, another tool that is much cheaper than the tool, it does not have the same features that UiPath Orchestrator has. The most valuable feature in my platform is the queue items in UiPath Orchestrator to evaluate the products using this feature."

"The pricing is reasonable and competitive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Government

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...

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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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Control-M?

It is a little bit expensive.

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What do you like most about UiPath Orchestrator?

Using UiPath Orchestrator, we can deploy tasks across different environments, including virtual machines, for both attended and unattended processes.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for UiPath Orchestrator?

The pricing of UiPath Orchestrator is a bit high. However, we can compete with that, though if they decrease the prices, it would lead to better market penetration.

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What needs improvement with UiPath Orchestrator?

I would like to see high availability over two sites, with a main site and a disaster recovery working as an active-active solution, which is not currently supported.

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Overview

Control-M is used for enterprise workload automation, orchestrating finance, retail, healthcare, and supply chain processes. It handles batch job scheduling, managed file transfers, cloud integrations, and compliance auditing across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Organizations leverage Control-M to efficiently monitor and manage business-critical processes like payroll, HR, SAP, Informatica, and database tasks. It enhances visibility, security, and error resolution. Automating and optimizing workflows in data centers, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, Control-M supports diverse technological environments. The platform's robust capabilities make it suitable for effective centralized management of applications and data pipelines, ensuring enhanced collaboration and scalability.

What are Control-M's most important features?

Integration capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with various systems
Automation API: Facilitates automation through APIs
Managed File Transfer: Simplifies secure file transfers
GUI console: Intuitive graphical user interface
Role-based administration: Provides access control
Single-pane view: Centralized monitoring dashboard
Scheduling options: Flexible job scheduling
Workflow orchestration: Coordinates complex workflows
Reporting: Generates insightful reports
Monitoring: Tracks and manages tasks
Forecasting: Predicts future workloads
Self-service portal: Empowers users with self-service tools
Plugins: Extends functionality through additional plugins

What are the benefits or ROI of using Control-M?

Enhanced visibility: Centralized view of all processes
Ease of use: User-friendly interface
Error reduction: Minimizes manual errors
Improved collaboration: Facilitates teamwork
Scalability: Supports growth and scale
Support: Comprehensive customer support

Control-M is implemented in industries like finance to handle payroll and HR tasks, in retail for inventory management and supply chain processes, and in healthcare for compliance auditing and patient data processing. Organizations benefit from streamlined workflows and automated processes across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring efficient and secure operations.

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UiPath Orchestrator automates website processes, manages supply chains, handles log-ins, and processes invoices efficiently. It's a comprehensive tool for generating reports, managing RPA workflows, scheduling robots, and ensuring task accuracy, making it indispensable for organizations aiming to optimize automation.

UiPath Orchestrator stands out for its user-friendly interface, centralized data collection, and robust security measures. Its intuitive design, combined with a comprehensive view of bot activity, makes it highly appreciated among users. With asset encryption, AI-integrated functionalities, and role-based access control, organizations find it reduces the need for extensive technical knowledge, thereby enhancing automation efficiency. It also excels in asset and queue management, logging capabilities, and scheduling functions, contributing significantly to streamlined operational processes.

What are the most important features of UiPath Orchestrator?

Centralized data collection: Provides a unified view of all automation activities
Robust security measures: Includes asset encryption and role-based access control
Scheduling functions: Allows efficient planning and execution of automated tasks
Asset and queue management: Enhances organization in handling automation assets
Logging capabilities: Tracks activities for better oversight and troubleshooting
AI-integrated functionalities: Improves accuracy and efficiency in automation

What benefits should users look for in reviews when evaluating UiPath Orchestrator?

Market visibility: Increased exposure and promotional activities
Code management: Improved management capabilities for Studio
Support response: Faster and more efficient support services
Credential vault: Enhanced flexibility in handling transactional items
AI capabilities: Advanced features at competitive pricing
Documentation: Clearer guidelines for transitioning setups
Integration: Better integration with reporting tools and comprehensive dashboards
Licensing: Streamlined processes for managing licenses
Monitoring: Centralized triggers for better process monitoring

UiPath Orchestrator sees wide application across industries such as manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. In manufacturing, it streamlines supply chain processes and automates inventory management. Finance companies use it for processing invoices and managing compliance, while the healthcare sector benefits from automating patient data handling and optimizing appointment scheduling. Each industry leverages the platform\'s extensive capabilities to enhance operational efficiency and accuracy.

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Sample Customers

CARFAX, Tampa General Hospital, Navistar, Amadeus, Raymond James, Railinc

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