BMC Control-M Workload Automation 2014 Survey Results

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2014 BMC Control-M SurveyBecause you share so much with us, we wanted to give back to you.

These are the results from the 2014 Control-M Workload Automation survey.

A few highlights:

Nearly 60 percent of organizations are managing workloads across mainframe and distributed systems.

Workloads continue to be on the rise, mostly due to new applications and business growth.

Adoption of self-service has nearly doubled year over year.

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Demographics

Job Function

IT Manager or higher 23%

Technical Professional 60%

System Architect 11%

Application Support 6%

Geographic Regions

Americas 54%

EMEA 35%

Asia Pacific 11%

Total respondents:

610

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Other Schedulers Installed

Window TS

Cron

Homegrown

IBM TWS

CA

Automic/UC4

Tidal

ASG

Redwood

Orsyp

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

72%

61%

35%

32%

26%

8%

8%

5%

5%

2%

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IT Environment

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

58%

41%

1%

Distributed Only

Mainframe Only

Distributed & Mainframe

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Capacity Outlook

Increase More than 20%

2014

2013

Increase 6% - 20%

Increase 1% - 5%

No Change Decrease

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

19% 20%

11%

3%

48%

21% 22%

11%

3%

43%

Capacity is expected to grow next year—see how you can continue to meet SLAs.

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Reason for Capacity Growth

80%

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%Business Growth

Increase Automation

New Hardware

OtherNew Apps

71%66%

47%

31%

66%61%

42%

30%

2%4%

2014

2013

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Using Self-Service

30%

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

0%

2014 2013 2012

28

15

7

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Mobile Device Use

Business Email

Business Applications

No Access

No Need

83%

20132014

77%

48%

42%

15%

2%

18%

5%

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Integrating WLA with On-Premises Applications

No Integration

Partial Integration

Deep Integration

53%

36%

11%

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Customer Satisfaction with Control-M

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%Very

SatisfiedSomewhat Satisfied

Somewhat Dissatisfied

Not At All Satisfied

Extremely Satisfied

1%1%

15%

61%

22%

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“Excellent product, excellent support.”

“Getting better all the time.”

“Control-M is an amazing tool which allows me to create and run any kind of application with no problems.”

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