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Smarter orchestration, real results: How Control-M connects your data ecosystem

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Disconnected tools. Missed SLAs. Broken pipelines. For many data teams, the challenge isn’t building—it’s making everything work together reliably.

Control-M bridges that gap. It connects the technologies you already use—like Snowflake, SageMaker, and Tableau—into unified and resilient workflows.

Here’s how Control-M helps you orchestrate across your entire data stack, delivering operational efficiency without adding complexity.

Orchestrate full ML pipelines with Control-M and Amazon SageMaker

Machine learning delivers real value only when it reaches production. Control-M helps you get there faster by transforming SageMaker workflows into orchestrated, resilient pipelines.

Instead of hand-cranked scripts and brittle logic, Control-M offers:

  • Direct integration to launch and monitor SageMaker training and inference jobs
  • Built-in SLA tracking, parallel job execution (up to 50 per agent), and predictive alerts
  • Seamless coordination with upstream data prep and downstream deployment steps

Real-world example: A data science team used Control-M to automate everything from data prep to monitoring. The result: a repeatable ML lifecycle that integrates directly with CI/CD pipelines.

Run smarter ELT workflows with Snowflake

Snowflake is built for scale—but it takes orchestration to turn SQL jobs, UDFs, and transformations into stable, production-ready workflows.

Control-M integrates directly with Snowflake so you can:

  • Automate, orchestrate, and monitor SQL and UDF executions with clear visibility
  • Automatically trigger downstream steps based on completion status
  • Ensure consistency and data integrity across platforms and tools

Use case: Orchestrate an end-to-end pipeline from Kafka ingestion to Snowflake transformation to Tableau visualization—all within a single, governed Control-M workflow.

Scale Airflow with centralized orchestration

Apache Airflow is great for DAG orchestration—but complexity can grow quickly. That’s where Control-M comes in.

Control-M works with Airflow to:

  • Centralize DAG execution and integrate with other toolchains
  • Track job status visually with SLA and error-handling logic
  • Trigger Airflow jobs from upstream events or use them within larger workflows

Best of both worlds: Use Airflow where it excels but orchestrate across your stack with Control-M to ensure continuity and control.

Deliver always-fresh analytics with Power BI, Looker, and Tableau

Dashboards only add value when they reflect current, accurate data. Control-M connects BI platforms to the rest of your pipeline, ensuring updates happen on time, every time.

Through native and API-based integrations, you can:

  • Trigger dashboard refreshes after upstream ELT or ML jobs complete
  • Link model outputs directly to reporting tools and decision-making
  • Monitor and resolve issues proactively before end users are affected

Example: Push SageMaker inference results into Power BI or Tableau dashboards immediately upon model run completion—no manual intervention required.

Why Control-M?

If you’re running modern data platforms across multi-cloud environments, Control-M helps everything run better—without reinventing your stack. It delivers:

  • Unified governance: Centralized visibility, management, monitoring, and alerting
  • Resilience: Auto-recovery, retries, and SLA intelligence built-in
  • Seamless integration: Up to three integrations added monthly, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and many more

Control-M is the orchestration engine that makes your stack smarter—by making it work together.

See it in action

Whether you’re deploying models, syncing dashboards, or scheduling ELT jobs, Control-M helps you build smarter workflows that don’t break under pressure.

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