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Systems Engineer - Senior Control M Admin at a tech vendor

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Project Manager at a tech services company

Project Manager at a tech services company

Project Manager at a tech services company

Graduate Research Assistant at a university

Sr. Tivoli WLA admin. + TOP-desk Saas Operations Manager at a logistics company

Sr. Tivoli WLA admin. + TOP-desk Saas Operations Manager at a logistics company

Associate Director / Global Technology Services at a financial services firm

The benefits are that it’s automated, reporting facilities are terrific, also when there is, let’s say, a failure of a job, it’s very, very easy to report that incident, that event, and we can certainly notify the appropriate personnel who need to be notified of that, very, very quickly.

The features most valuable differ from client to client. One of our clients used Control-M to execute multiple scripts in distributed...

Seamless integration with different applica-tions like Oracle, SAP, Hadoop, JMS etc. Web console with single sign on...

Yes - UNIX installation, we encountered is-sues due to not having sudo root access. In some windows installations, we...

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The TWS GUI was an excellent feature. Job monitoring and scheduling using the front end was extremely easy.

Upgrades to the GUI interface would be probably one of the biggest things they could do to improve. With the up and...

Today, TWS (TWA) has evolved into version 9.x and the product is now also available as a cloud-provided service...

I have not encountered any scalability issues at all.

They’ve been in business longer than just about anybody, so their suite of products have been very stable. They are innovative...

The technical support is good. I’ve used them many times for technical issues. So far, their support has been good for resolving...

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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Efficient, effective and easy to use, some of the qualities that makes...

Integration with different applications like Oracle, SAP, Hadoop, and JMS.

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