Surging to the top of our Best Automation/ Scheduling Tool category is BMC Software's CONTROL-M for Microsoft Windows, which gives you advanced business-integrated scheduling capabilities across the heterogeneous enterprise from a single point of control. The product leverages emerging Windows capabilities such as advanced clustering, job objects, and authorization mechanisms to provide a unique scheduling architecture. Multiple CONTROL-M components address your environment's security, reliability, availability, and scalability requirements.
By integrating tasks over multiple platforms and applications, CONTROL-M simplifies job scheduling. You get full automation and immediate problem detection, as well as reduced manual errors and costs. CONTROL-M efficiently monitors, manages, and automates crucial business processes to help ensure that you're meeting service levels.
Key to the success of CONTROL-M is the number of unique environments it supports, thereby maximizing your hardware and software investments. CONTROL-M supports more than 20 platforms and numerous off-the-shelf application-specific plugins. CONTROL-M also offers a tool kit with which you can customize plugins for other applications. The product is a member of the Microsoft Gold certification program, ensuring continuous compatibility between CONTROL-M and Microsoft solutions.