JAMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
JAMS
Editions & Modules
Core
9,996.00
per year
Advanced
Customized Pricing
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JAMS
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level 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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Community Pulse
JAMS
Considered Both Products
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Being company is already using Global Scape, another product from the same company, so licensing to start using JAMS was easy.
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We use both in the organization, with JAMS more focused on internal file transfers and Axway MFT used for combination of both internal/external. Key difference I noted is the alerting feature is better in JAMS compared to Axway MFT, however Axway SaaS (cloud platform) allows …
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JAMS is the legacy product in our on-premises environment. Accenture has recently implemented MyWizard, the preferred platform for future operations, which is expected to progressively replace JAMS as part of our broader cloud migration strategy. Given this
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Only used the Task Scheduler on Microsoft servers, which accurately started jobs on time.
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I wasn't involved in selecting JAMS; it was pushed down by the architecture team.
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We base usage of JAMS for the particular business use cases.
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JAMS overall costs are significantly lower, and support is better overall. If you have a halfway decent technical team, any small to medium business will benefit from JAMS over the rest of the schedulers out there. The UI is so much cleaner than every competitor we've sampled.
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We migrated to JAMS from a previous application that was sunsetted. We were aware that JAMS was more than a like for like replacement for the incumbent application, and in fact was more powerful and flexible. We did consider other solutions, some of which appeared to be more …
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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 …
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We were already experienced with JAMS at a previous company. JAMS was already decided prior to my employment.
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JAMS fulfilled the same automation functionality at a far less cost and in a simplified licensing model.
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We chose JAMS because it was the best solution for our business needs, a major factor being the licensing model and the simplicity of the app. We needed to migrate things fast too and this was simply plug and play without too much headache
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JAMS is more specialized in Scheduled execution of Jobs with less complexity that B2B. We have been very happy with JAMS in respect to B2B.
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I was not involved in the selection process.
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Our developers found it easier to get going with JAMS and there seemed to be better calendar and scheduling options available in JAMS. JAMS also supported legacy OS versions that were unsupported and did not work in Automic. This was a vital requirement in selecting a solution …
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I have not researched other workload automation products.
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JAMS was much more cost-effective and easier to use. JAMS allowed us to centralize our job scheduling more fully. Converting from our previous, very limited scheduler to JAMS would be far more accessible than Automox.
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JAMS is easier to use, provides more features and was easier to manage form a central location. simple features in JAMS were missing from VisualCron such as a projected daily schedule. The install setup with a client and agents was better suited for us too
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While Redwood offers a modern UI, JAMS is much easier to use. For basic operations, it's simple to create a job and schedule it. For those with more experience, JAMS offers much more robust features to take advantage of.
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Tidal is a very good scheduler but very expensive and customers can't budget for this. REvScheduler is a lot cheaper but the interface isn't very aesthetics and functionality is lacking compared to JAMS. Out of all of them I'd recommend JAMS.
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N/A. I don't have any experience with different Job Management Software. Since JAMS is capable of doing most of our daily operations, we didn't look for other software. I can say that JAMS perfectly fits with us and with our clients. I've only heard about Direct M, which, based …
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JAMS is less expensive, support is easier to work with, and patching is much easier.
Features
JAMS
Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
JAMS
7.4
68 Ratings
11% below category average
Multi-platform scheduling8.161 Ratings
Central monitoring7.765 Ratings
Logging7.265 Ratings
Alerts and notifications8.064 Ratings
Analysis and visualization6.463 Ratings
Application integration6.863 Ratings
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User Ratings
JAMS
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(68 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(11 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(10 ratings)
Availability
8.7
(6 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(68 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(9 ratings)
Configurability
8.1
(5 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.5
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.7
(4 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.6
(66 ratings)
Professional Services
8.5
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.7
(5 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.7
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
JAMS
Likelihood to Recommend
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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.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.