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BMC is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms

End-to-End Workflow Automation, Simplified

Build, define, schedule, deploy, manage, and monitor production workflows from a single view, ensuring reliability and improving SLAs.

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What is Control-M?

Control-M is workflow orchestration software that automatically runs and manages important business tasks, like moving data or processing sales, so everything works reliably and on time without manual effort.

Benefits of Control-M

Simplify workflows

Automate and orchestrate application and data workflows from a single platform, reducing complexity and manual effort.

Accelerate delivery

Support faster release cycles and data-driven initiatives by embedding workflow orchestration directly into DevOps pipelines.

Improve reliability

Ensure critical business services run smoothly with proactive monitoring, predictive analytics, and SLA management.

Increase flexibility

Run and manage workloads seamlessly across mainframe, distributed, and cloud environments.

Empower teams

Enable developers, operations, and business users to manage workflows through self-service and shared visibility.

Optimize costs

Reduce operational expenses by eliminating manual processes, consolidating tools, and improving resource utilization.

Multi Cloud

Deliver data-driven outcomes in production at scale

Spend more time uncovering actionable intelligence and less time managing the movement of data and files.

  • COMPLETE VISIBILITY

    Get an end-to-end view of all your data pipelines.

  • MANAGE FILE TRANSFERS

    Create, run, and monitor file transfers as part of your data pipeline.

  • INTEGRATE WITH LEADING TECHNOLOGIES

    Easily integrate with leading data platforms like Airflow, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory and many others.

Connected Jobs

Orchestrate complex workflows across hybrid-cloud environments

Integrate and automate application workflows, from the mainframe to the cloud, so your business services are delivered on time, every time.

  • CHOOSE YOUR CLOUD

    Provision Control-M in any cloud or Provision Control-M in any cloud.

  • EXPLOIT CLOUD RESOURCES

    Take advantage of the cost-savings capabilities of cloud compute services.

  • BUILT-IN CLOUD INTEGRATIONS

    Get native support for popular cloud services, including AWS, Azure, and Google.

Accelerate

Workflow orchestration embedded in your DevOps processes

Use existing DevOps tools with Control-M to save time and improve application quality.

  • TAKE A JOBS-AS-CODE APPROACH

    Integrate application workflows into CI/CD pipelines using a Jobs-as-Code approach with Control-M.

  • ENHANCE COLLABORATION

    Dev and Ops teams can work from the same consistent, familiar platform.

  • ACCELERATE DEPLOYMENT

    Use JSON, Python, Jenkins, GIT, and other CI/CD tools to version, test, and maintain workflows.

What's New in Control-M

Introducing AI Workflow Creator

Solutions that fit your scale.

Best for teams
Starter Pack (SaaS)
Full-featured Control-M SaaS orchestration — right-sized for growing teams and hybrid cloud apps.
Starting at $2,400 /month*
What’s included:
  • SaaS deployment
  • Available on AWS marketplace
  • Full cloud and hybrid application and data orchestration (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks)
  • SLA management and GenAI advisor service
  • GitOps/DevOps CI/CD Integration
  • 24x7 support
  • Automatic upgrades and new feature access
  • Includes high availability and disaster recovery out of the box
Best for organizations
Enterprise
Fully configurable orchestration for complex, high-scale, hybrid, and mainframe environments — with enterprise-grade flexibility and support.
Contact for pricing
What’s included:
  • SaaS, self-hosted, or hybrid deployment
  • End-to-end visualization from mainframe to hybrid and multi-cloud
  • Customizable usage models and contract options
  • Industry-leading enterprise-class orchestration platform
  • Available on AWS and Google Cloud Platform marketplaces
  • Follow the sun global support, dedicated Customer Success Manager available
  • Professional conversion services available

* Billed annually

Explore the automation and orchestration capabilities of Control-M:

Control-M Integrations

Orchestrate any application, data source, or critical system of record.

Azure Data Factory
AWS Sagemaker
GCP Dataflow
Informatica
AWS Glue
Ready to make a change?

Ready to make a change?

Explore the benefits of switching to Control-M

  • STREAMLINED CONVERSION

    Minimize risk with a simple transition process that reduces time and costs.

  • PROVEN EXPERTISE

    Our professional services team has deep expertise in transitioning from a wide range of scheduling tools and is available to help.

  • Future Proof

    Control-M is built to handle what comes next, with full support for mainframe, hybrid, and cloud technologies.

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REVIEWS

Control-M honored by TrustRadius

Control-M has earned a 2025 Top Rated Award from TrustRadius, based entirely on feedback from verified users. Customers praised its powerful orchestration capabilities, highlighting its role in simplifying workflows, improving visibility, and driving operational efficiency across complex data and IT environments.

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User-friendly scheduling facilitates market-wide batch job management across multiple regions
Sep 8, 2025
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Control-M is very easy to use; there shouldn't be any technical knowledge required for using Control-M, making it more user-friendly compared to other tools in the market.

Mallikarjuna Kotthari, Senior Software Engineer at HSBC

Financial Services Firm

10,001+ Employees

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Saves us thousands of hours, is widely applicable, user-friendly, and features top-notch reporting
Jul 3, 2022
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There are other solutions like Control-M out on the market, but in every recent market evaluation, Control-M has always come out on top.

Chris Wahl, Operations Engineer at West Bend Mutual Insurance Company

Insurance Company

1,001-5,000 Employees

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Superb GUI, Unified view across On-Prem & Cloud, improves support response time and enables...
Nov 7, 2025
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The biggest return on investment I have experienced with Control-M is the reduction in support time.

Iain Airlie, Senior Control-M Consultant at Ktsl

Tech Services Company

11-50 Employees

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An effective solution with easy deployment, good API integration, and excellent support
May 17, 2025
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Control-M is the blood for my entire organization, integrating with every app team, including HR.

Associate Architect, Tech Services Company

10,001+ Employees

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Easily connects to different platforms and ties everything together in a centralized screen
Aug 25, 2025
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The best features of Control-M include the fact that you can easily connect different platforms.

Mark Francome

Financial Services Firm

10,001+ Employees

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Offers predictive analysis and makes dependency mapping easy
Apr 19, 2025
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Almost all of the banks in South Africa are using it. That speaks for itself.

Account Executive, Computer Software Company

51-200 Employees

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Analyst Report

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2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms

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