Market Leader

Batch Management
FTP support
Increased Service Level Management
Event and Time based scheduling
Monitoring dashboard
Alerts for failures/long running etc
Supports Non SAP
Scheduling solution sold by SAP

ControlM

CPS

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Market Leader
SAP Support
FTP Support
Event and Time based scheduling
Monitoring dashboard
Tight integration with SAP
Alerts for failures, long running etc
Hardware Requirement

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Control of SAP and Non SAP processes

Effort for Tool implementation and
Maintenance

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55

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4
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Basic date / time initiated job

scheduling

Third Party Scheduling

Systems
(IBM Tivoli, BMC Control-M,
UC4 etc.)
Parallel job processing chains
(advanced, complex
predecessor / successor
relationships)

Linear job step chains

Cross system, enterprise wide

scheduling

Basic parallelization of
process chains within BI

Centralized management,
monitoring and alerting

Standard SAP: CCMS

transactions SM36/SM37

Graphical job/process chain

views
Basic event based triggering
(typically only file events rather
than SAP events)
Some automated restart
functionality

SAP Central Process

Scheduling by Redwood
Event based dynamic
scheduling and support for
multiple SAP and non-SAP preconditions
and events
SAP Workload Management for
scheduled and non-scheduled
batch workloads
Context driven process chains
via variables and real-time SAP
variant creation and
replacement
Interception and Management
of non-scheduled SAP
workloads (user and system
initiated)
Visibility and management of
all child (spawned) processes
Hardware Load Balancing
Tight Solution Manager
Integration for centralized Job
Scheduling Management and
documentation
Netweaver Deployed
Special integration with IS-U
and SAP FI Financial Closing
Cockpit
Advanced recovery and restart
automation
Integrated SAP UME Security
Fast import/migration from
other scheduling solutions