Your BMC Control-M Alternative is Here

How does transparent pricing with no hidden fees sound? With Redwood RunMyJobs, you don’t have to worry about the surprise overage costs BMC Control-M customers face.

  • Elimination of surprise cost overages and complex licensing models
  • Out-of-the-box functionalities without costly modules and connectors
  • 24/7 proactive customer support and a dedicated Customer Success lead on your account
  • Proven success migrating customers to RunMyJobs

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How Do We Stack Up?

Redwood
RunMyJobs
BMC
Control-M
Natively-designed for SaaS Yes No
SaaS implementation supports all features of on-prem version Yes No
Full environment SaaS updates, including agents Yes No
Built to promote re-use and minimize duplication of workflows and schedules for SaaS Yes No
Straightforward pricing and licensing with no surprise audits Yes No
Pricing built on job executions, not job templates Yes No
100% direct in-house experts for service and support Yes No

Recognitions

G2 Leader Summer 2022

#1 Rated Workload Automation Solution

Redwood consistently receives the G2 Leader Award as the top-rated workload automation solution.

2022 Value Leader

Best SaaS Based Workload Automation

EMA has recognized Redwood's SaaS-native success by awarding RunMyJobs with “Best SaaS Workload Automation Solution” and “Value Leader” designations.

SAP Platinum Partner

Unparalleled ERP Integration

Seamless integration with leading enterprise tools like SAP means RunMyJobs is the solution to beat.

Remove the guesswork from workload automation

  • Eliminate surprise cost overages and complex licensing models
  • Gain out-of-the-box functionality without costly modules and connectors
  • Experience 24/7 proactive, in-house customer support
  • Benefit from the support of a dedicated customer success manager
See RunMyJobs in Action

Seamless migration every time

With decades of in-house professional services experience and our tried-and-true migration and testing tools, we ensure you get the most value out of RunMyJobs as quickly as possible.

  1. Consult

    We review your current scheduling environment, applications, and systems alongside your goals, and then we look for opportunities to improve and optimize.

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  2. Plan

    We perform a detailed analysis of your processes, and then we develop a plan, sequence and timeline for migrating.

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  3. Convert

    We create your cloud environment and begin converting your existing processes with our proven automated migration tools, and then we validate all processes before we launch.

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  4. Go-Live

    We conduct a complete system review, ensuring all processes developed for your environment pass acceptance test criteria, and then we push the confirmed processes into production.

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Migration made easy

Redwood's migration program provides a safe route for organizations that want an alternative to any job scheduling or workload automation tool available. For nearly three decades, we’ve successfully moved customers from BMC, Broadcom/CA, IBM, Tidal, AutoSys, Stonebranch, and more.

We can provide a roadmap for your automation in the digital era with unrivaled support that our customers consistently praise.

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As the UK's leading hotel company operating more than 700 hotels, our business never stops. We quickly migrated to Redwood, automating 1.3 million business-critical file transfers a month. We never miss a single transaction.

Rob Smith, Project Manager, Whitbread

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are Control-M Alternatives?

  1. Redwood RunMyJobs
  2. ActiveBatch Workload Automation
  3. Snowflake
  4. AutoSys
  5. Cleo Integration Cloud
  6. Automatic Automation
  7. IBM Workload Automation
  8. Jams Scheduler
  9. Activeeon
  10. Stonebranch

Still not sure if Redwood is for you? Try our demo now.

What can you integrate with BMC Control-M?

BMC Control-M can be integrated with various tools and technologies to support end-to-end automation of batch processing and job scheduling operations. Some examples include:

  • Cloud platforms: Control-M can be integrated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, enabling organizations to achieve smooth orchestration across cloud-native tools and manage and schedule batch processing operations in a cloud-based environment.
  • Databases: Control-M can be integrated with Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2 to extract and process data for batch processing operations.
  • Mainframe systems: Control-M can be integrated with mainframe systems such as IBM z/OS and UNIX/Linux systems to support batch processing operations in mixed environments.
  • DevOps tools: Control-M can be integrated with DevOps tools such as Hadoop, Docker, Jenkins, Java, JSON, Git, Python, and Ansible to support continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows for batch processing applications.
  • Business Intelligence and Analytics tools: Control-M can be integrated with BI and analytics tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, and SAS to enable organizations to extract and analyze batch-processing data and generate actionable insights.

These are just a few examples of the many different tools and technologies that can be integrated with BMC Control-M to support end-to-end automation of batch processing and job scheduling operations.

Learn more about Redwood’s many automation integrations.

Would a BMC Control-M alternative reduce my TCO?

Yes. For example, Redwood’s SaaS architecture eliminates the overhead of infrastructure and ongoing maintenance of the workload automation platform. Redwood also includes all features with unlimited connections to applications, services, and servers without licensing additional plugins. With Redwood’s simple pricing model, you only pay for the jobs you run, gaining enterprise-grade flexibility and scalability to help you grow. Explore why Redwood’s unified cloud platform lowers ownership costs.

Why should I consider BMC Control-M alternatives?

There are several reasons organizations may be looking at BMC Control-M alternatives, including the age of the tool, cost and complexity. Control-M is older, which makes it much less flexible end-to-end.

Also, the infrastructure is complex. For example, if an upgrade is needed, BMC Control-M often requires teams of people, multiple notifications, and dedicated downtime.

It is also expensive and can be error-prone. So, there is a chance that the optimizations you have made do not work. With BMC Control-M being based on a schedule, all IT processes need to be pre-scheduled in a sequence, which means you end up with longer processes allowing for buffer time. And the system must be shut down every day to predict the next day’s schedule, which means you are not really responding to things in real-time.

Lastly, scalability is challenging for BMC Control-M as you grow, despite cloud-based technology changing over the last 20 years. Change management has not evolved, unlike Redwood, so it feels like you are continuously “bolting on stuff to your car” instead of innovating past legacy capabilities. You can do it, but it will not work the way it optimally should as there are a lot of dependencies.

Need a BMC Control-M alternative? Try Redwood. We’ve hit over 50 billion automations this year and have catapulted hundreds of businesses to the next level of efficiency and productivity.

Should I migrate to a BMC Control-M alternative?

BMC’s Control-M solution is based on an architecture that is not well-suited to the needs of a modern enterprise. It requires a large installation footprint that is burdensome and time-consuming to update when security patches are needed. It has high operational and administrative costs as a result. A solution that performs more automation through agentless APIs and offers updates that upgrade every element simultaneously in minutes is significantly easier to run. See how Redwood’s SaaS delivery allows IT organizations to focus on automation not administration.