Azure Batch vs. JAMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Batch
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Azure Batch is cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management.N/A
JAMS
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
JAMS is a centralized workload automation and job scheduling solution that runs, monitors, and manages jobs and workflows. Reliably orchestrate the critical IT processes that run your business from a single pane of glass.
$9,996
per year
Pricing
Azure BatchJAMS
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Core
9,996.00
per year
Advanced
Customized Pricing
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure BatchJAMS
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details- Core: For small teams getting started with automation. Core Integrations: PowerShell, SQL, Azure Data Factory, Python, 20+ others. - Advanced: Comprehensive solution for large-scale operations. Core Integrations: SAP, JDE, Ellucian Banner, Informatica, Mainframe and Power Systems.
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Features
Azure BatchJAMS
Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
Azure Batch
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Ratings
JAMS
7.6
66 Ratings
9% below category average
Multi-platform scheduling00 Ratings8.159 Ratings
Central monitoring00 Ratings8.063 Ratings
Logging00 Ratings7.763 Ratings
Alerts and notifications00 Ratings8.262 Ratings
Analysis and visualization00 Ratings6.861 Ratings
Application integration00 Ratings7.061 Ratings
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Azure BatchJAMS
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Score 7.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure BatchJAMS
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(2 ratings)
8.3
(56 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(10 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(9 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(55 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(8 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(54 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure BatchJAMS
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
To better serve their consumers, businesses that often interact with those clients who rely on Microsoft's software products may consider migrating to Azure. This program would be useful in any installation of a Microsoft product or suite that necessitates a test of the target environment. It is simple to maintain and implement, making it an ideal IT backbone. If a client doesn't have any use for this particular instrument, it's not going to be of any benefit to them.
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JAMS Software
There's probably better schedulers out there. JAMS is good for an on-premises/classic IT implementation. JAMS is well-suited for use cases such as collecting a file from a shared location and uploading it to an API, running scripts on servers, and handling middleware tasks that process files or data between handoffs across different locations. JAMS is best suited to environments
with IT staff who can develop, test, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot
scripts; it does not use natural language processing (so it requires in-depth
knowledge of the scripting language in use), and it does not appear to offer
native dashboarding or reporting that is easily accessible to all users.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Managing the users
  • Having multiple environments
  • Creating multiple groups
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JAMS Software
  • JAMS works well to organize jobs into logical folders with unique permissions for each folder
  • JAMS makes it easy to set up alerts for job failures and other notifications
  • Setting up scheduling times with normal human wording, such as Weekdays, or 2nd Tuesday of the month, etc.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • The user interface, in my opinion, might need further clarification.
  • Any situation where a user's password has to be reset would benefit from this feature.
  • Any accounts that were accidentally established more than once may be transferred over quickly and easily.
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JAMS Software
  • Would love to see JAMS become a SaaS type of product instead of needing to be hosted by ourselves
  • having lots of jobs in the monitor area can lead to performance issues when running the client locally
  • dashboard and reporting tools could be more user friendly and provide more functionality to help monitoring teams spot recurring issues easily
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
JAMS Software
JAMS is a critical resource free up people to do other things and ensuring that processes and tasks are run consistently. We are also confident that procedures are run consistently and on time or as soon as the necessary data is available. With automated job failure notification, we are not required to check that jobs are running correctly.
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Usability
Microsoft
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JAMS Software
JAMS is very user friendly; you hardly need to do coding. The only thing that I would say a challenge is setting it up, but that's because you barely know the product yet and, in every processing, setting up is the difficult part. But once you've set it up and you are going to use it, you will really feel that it is worth to invest in this kind of software solution, it really does it job very well.
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
JAMS Software
We didnt really encounter any downtime, no issues encountered during 2 years of use of JAMs also our client barely raise an issue with JAMS, mostly the issues is on the batch jobs that jams executes. So I would gave it a perfect 10, very reliable hardly encounters any error and bug
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Performance
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
JAMS Software
JAMS performance is very great, there are no issues raised with the performance, it just like nothing happens on the job after integration it gives you this monitoring capability, no reports and bugs raised on the performance, we didnt do integration with other software only database and with use of JAMS agent to different servers
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Support Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
JAMS Software
I've never had to wait more than a day for a response to any email queries submitted. We had a very positive experience using support hours during out migration process from v6 to v7. We've also recently had a weeklong group training course where all attendees were positive about the learning outcomes, a shoutout to Jose who did both the migration and the weeklong course!
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In-Person Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
JAMS Software
People that were involved in the POC found the training a lot easier to follow. I think most people would have preferred to just get the training material and run through themselves.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
JAMS Software
I Was not part of the original Implementation, and the persons did that are no longer with the Organization. But I was part of the recent Upgrade process a year ago and I am the JAMS admin and was very pleased
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
They both are great tools and provide the services they have implemented. They are two competing companies that have different cultures and forward mission agendas. I would say Azure is a little easier to support through their user interface for the IT support side of things. Both tools are useful and have their own strength and weakness. If you're a dynamic company with a multitude of customers then both are a required tool to have.
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JAMS Software
JAMS is WAY more advanced, it isn't a fair comparison. The history is easy to get through. It is easy to get alerts of complete to failed and with a log. Adding jobs is extremely easy that even my teammates who do not manange the software are able to set them up. With the new web component we are very excited for the future of JAMS advancements.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
JAMS Software
i didnt have any involvement in the sales process, however we purchased the product so it had to be decent.
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Scalability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
JAMS Software
The product is quite flexible. There are a number of features and functions that we use on a daily basis, and there are many features that are available that we have not yet needed or explored (like setting up jobs with the ability to do FTP or Sftp file transfers).
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Professional Services
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
JAMS Software
i didnt have any involvement in the sales process, however we purchased the product so it had to be decent.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • After initial setup, we now have significantly less time spent processing data.
  • The automation of data formatting and display after processing is exciting because it frees us to focus on the data itself.
  • Since using Batch, we have significantly decreased the number of items we previously utilized.
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JAMS Software
  • Our company depends on the JAMS Scheduler in executing a large number of SAP Jobs. In never having had a true Enterprise Scheduler such as JAMS before now, we are very happy with the results.
  • There a number of features in JAMS for setting up schedules and dependencies on other jobs. This helps our company achieve the necessary workflows for Job execution. This optimization saves on system resources and keeps Jobs flowing smoothly.
  • We are very happy that JAMS is a robust solution with High Availability. This is necessary for Enterprise products, to reduce downtime, which we have not had as a result. This feature definitely saves our company money by reducing or eliminating unexpected downtime.
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ScreenShots

JAMS Screenshots

Screenshot of the Visual Job Editor - a drag and drop editor for tasks is used to build multistep workflows that include dependencies, user input, parallel processes, and triggers.Screenshot of the Centralized Job Repository - here users store job definitions, schedules, and parameters in one central database.Screenshot of the Job Monitor - this displays the status of jobs and workloads from one central monitoring console. Viewers can drill down on individual jobs to diagnose failures, dependencies, and expected completion times.Screenshot of a Dashboard - Here, users can create data-rich visuals to monitor critical batch jobs and workflows running on various agents and on different business applications.Screenshot of the Centralized Job Repository - Stores job definitions, schedules, and parameters in a central database.