Job Scheduling refers to the scheduling, triggering, and running of tasks. This approach to process automation is a proactive solution to traditional batch processes, streamlining your pipelines, reducing notifications fatigue, and decreasing scheduling jams. Modern job schedulers have advanced date/time, fiscal calendar, and interval-based options for ultimate flexibility.
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Included
with Control-M*
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*Some configurations charge
per Job template created.
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Workflow mapping allows IT teams to quickly and effectively route end-to-end workflows from one point to another based on conditional logic, business rules, or other constraints. Workflow mapping tools can feature graphical displays that allow users to visualize dependencies between workflow components and improve their approach to IT automation.
Orchestration tools allow diverse systems and applications to communicate with one another and be collectively managed from a single console.
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Universal Orchestration
Included with ActiveBatch
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Included
with Control-M*
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*Orchestrate IT Processes Using Separately Licensed Product: BMC TrueSight Orchestration
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Real-time job scheduling methods trigger workflows based on a particular event, such as a database modification, file creation, or email delivery. This method of process automation reduces delays and bottlenecks by kicking off jobs as soon as, but not before, they are able to successfully run.
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Included
with ActiveBatch
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Partially Included
with Control-M*
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*Database Triggers, File Triggers, and Auto-Remediation Triggers may require add-ins or plug-ins.
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Runtime Monitoring and Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management involves monitoring and tracking KPIs related to IT and business process service level performance. Conditional alerting is a required element of this monitoring, as operations teams need to know relevant, contextual information as soon as possible in the event of a potential breach. Some tools provide automated remediation capabilities such as freeing disk space or provisioning additional resources to processes at risk of failure.
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Included
with ActiveBatch
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Not Included
with Control-M
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Requires Control-M
Batch Impact Manager Add-In
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Secure and reliable managed file transfers are essential processes within every enterprise. Managed File Transfer (MFT) Automation takes simple file transfers to the next level with parallel transfer capabilities, validation checks, templated transfer logic, centralized credential and connection info management, and more.
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Included
with ActiveBatch
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Not Included
with Control-M
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Requires Control-M
Managed File Transfer Add-In
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DevOps is an agile framework and strategy focused on collaboration between development and operational teams. IT DevOps tools assist IT developers with low-code development functions and provide operations with up-to-date information, documentation, and remediation functions. Plus, DevOps tools offer channels to collaborate across functional teams, securely promote objects between environments, move and communicate big data, and more.
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Included
with ActiveBatch
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Partially Included
with Control-M*
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*e.g. Job logic cannot be easily expanded to add additional steps or actions; additional add-ins required for some features.
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A facility that tracks all object revisions, multi-user audit trails, and approval processes for promoting objects between production and non-production environments. Many Change Management or source control tools also offer the ability to perform transformations to objects when migrating from one environment to another, plus simple and reliable methods for rolling back to prior versions of an object or all-inclusive changeset.
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Included
with ActiveBatch
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Not Included
with Control-M
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Requires Control-M
Workload Change Manager Add-In
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Operational teams need to know what’s happening at a moment’s notice. Real-time, all-in-one multi-cloud operations monitoring provides a single pane of glass to monitor workflows, activities, and machine loads. This end-to-end visibility allows operators to troubleshoot problems faster by making it easy to drill into the individual components that caused a setback or scheduling jam.
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Included
with ActiveBatch
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Included
with Control-M
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Intelligent resource optimization is the process of using machine learning, predictive analytics, and dynamic scaling to automatically distribute workloads among disparate machine resources. Machine load management not only visualizes which machines have the highest loads, but is also used by the system to dynamically balance machine loads.
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Included
with ActiveBatch
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Not Available
for Control-M
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Automated management of popular RDBMSs such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Databases. Easily add, modify, or remove data within and between databases. Plus, perform low-code ETL processes between providers, monitor database contents for changes, and automatically trigger workloads based contextually on events.
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Included
with ActiveBatch
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Not Included
with Control-M
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Requires Control-M
for Databases Plug-In
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