Name: OpCon
Rating: 3.7 (72 reviews)

Overview

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is OpCon?

OpCon is an automation software designed to help organizations streamline and manage complex workflows across multiple environments and platforms. The software facilitates the scheduling, execution, and monitoring of business and IT processes, enabling users to reduce manual intervention and improve operational efficiency. OpCon supports a wide range of integrations, allowing for centralized orchestration of tasks such as data transfer, batch processing, and event-driven automation. The software offers features for error handling, reporting, and compliance, addressing the need for reliable and auditable automation in industries with stringent regulatory requirements. By automating repetitive processes, OpCon seeks to minimize risk associated with human error and provide consistent delivery of business services.

Overall experience with OpCon

ENGINEER

50M - 250M USD, Banking

FAVORABLE

“Training Sessions Well Received and Vendor Team Demonstrates Reliability and Care”

4.0

Mar 27, 2026

Vendor management has been smooth, training has been well communicated and well received by end users.

IT ASSOCIATE

1B - 3B USD, Consumer Goods

CRITICAL

“Opcon Simplifies Task Automation Despite Outdated Interface and Vague Error Messages”

3.0

Sep 12, 2025

Opcon is a very useful tool for automating and scheduling tasks. Even though the design seems a bit outdated, the functionalities are great such as creating tasks, restarting them, setting up the parameters and overall execution.

About Company

Company Description

SMA Technologies specializes in Enterprise Workload Automation through its product, OpCon. The main aim of this automation tool is to streamline processes across diverse financial sectors, eliminating potential human errors, and efficiently utilizing IT resources for strategic initiatives. OpCon is capable of managing the entire IT environment, offering scalability to match the increasing automation needs of businesses. SMA Technologies also provides Automation Consultancy, assisting with the identification of automation opportunities, the creation of an implementation plan, and the execution of projects. Furthermore, they offer Managed Automation Services, which includes support in handling automation environments, resolving issues, and implementing long-term automation strategies.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

1980

Head office location

Houston, United States

Number of employees

51 - 200

Website

https://www.SMAtechnologies.com

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It is very reliable, the service has been very easy to work with and the team seems knowledgeable and caring.

It's user friendly, easy to use design, even for those not so deep into technical users. It's great for ETL automations and running any type of redundant and repetitive tasks that can be automated through OpCon. At the end of the day - it does the job.

The support from the team is phenomenal. If we have any issues with the platform, we usually have a fix by EoD and if not, we have something scheduled to review with a tech.

The product is limited in how it can interact with GUI which leads us to using other products/services hand in hand with this one.

The very outdated user-interface, and the fact that the error messages can be quite vague and difficult to understand. This makes troubleshooting a philosophy class rather than a technical challenge.

OpCon cannot log into purely web-based file interfaces without a direct connection with FTP/SFTP. If it doesn't have this, it can't just use a username/password to log into a website. Solution Manager exists and looks promising as a cloud replacement for the OpCon desktop environment but was launched without all the features of the desktop client and is only now catching up. Finally, errors are not always clear when a job fails; we had one job fail because a popup was occurring during file transfer and we needed to add a quiet flag; I would never have discovered this without help from support.

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50M-1B USD

Banking

Review Source

Training Sessions Well Received and Vendor Team Demonstrates Reliability and Care

1B-10B USD

Consumer Goods

Opcon Simplifies Task Automation Despite Outdated Interface and Vague Error Messages

Systems Developer

SMA OpCon - More than Basic Automation

Mar 14, 2024

OpCon is an indispensable tool for job/file automation. It just works, and if it doesn't, support is always there to answer your questions, usually same day.

AVP, Enterprise Systems

Robust and Work-Life changing; It's like having 2 employees

5.0

Mar 18, 2019

OpCon has been absolutely pivotal in automating almost any task we throw at it. It's ability create complex workflows and ability to reliably perform detailed tasks created a very large amount of time for our IT staff to perform other work. We have heavily leveraged it's ability to call batch scripts, access SFTP, monitor email accounts and perform specific actions based on a filtering of incoming emails to trigger events, fire SQL stored procedures, and automate the movement of files from one share to another. This is only a small list of the things that OpCon allows us to do, all unattended, on a reoccurring schedule of our choosing. As you can imagine, with a solution this capable, it can become quite confusing, and OpCon's support department is excellent in helping you implement your dream automation scenarios. If you can think it up, they will help try and find a way to make it happen. We have often requested additional functionality and, found it implemented only a few development cycles later. We also leverage their seamless ability to integrate into our core software platform, although due to the propriety of our vendor, they have few competitors in this area. That being said, OpCon performs more than admirably, and, is almost always not the cause of any issues that arise.

Software Engineer

Double dip with Advance Training and conference extravaganza!

Mar 20, 2019

The Advance Training was great and the conference provided great insight into the future of SMA and additional short term updates.