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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    JAMS

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AJAMS 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

    Lightning Tools Actions

    Score10 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Lightning Tools Actions is a complement to Lightning Forms, but can also be used independently of Lightning Forms. Rather than opening individual items to update fields such as Approval Status, Resetting field values such as holiday entitlement, or sending emails to notify creators of items that a request has been approved, Lightning Tools Actions provides the ability to create new command bar buttons with actions that can be performed against multiple selected items.

    $1,200

    per year per installation

    Pricing
    JAMSLightning Tools Actions
    Editions & Modules
    Core
    9,996.00
    per year
    Advanced
    Customized Pricing
    per year
    List Actions
    From $1200
    per year per installation
    List Actions Enterprise Edition
    POA
    per year per installation
    List Actions Plus (with Document Generator)
    From $1800
    per year per installation
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JAMSLightning Tools Actions
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    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.Prices stated are minimum per installation for "stock" products. $1.20 per user on top of annual fee. Enterprise editions can be amended to suit business needs if deemed necessary, additional costs incurred and TBD. All packages include free technical support. Free upgrades available to latest versions of tool as they are released. (online version)Prices stated are minimum per installation for "stock" products. Not available for SharePoint OnPremises (2007 - 2019)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
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    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    JAMSLightning Tools Actions
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of JAMS and Lightning Tools Actions
    Feature
    JAMS
    7.4
    70 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Lightning Tools Actions
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Multi-platform scheduling8.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring7.868 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging7.268 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications8.167 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization6.466 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration6.765 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JAMSLightning Tools Actions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (71 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.4
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    Availability
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
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    Performance
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.1
    (71 ratings)
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    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
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    Configurability
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.7
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    Ease of integration
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    7.4
    (69 ratings)
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    Professional Services
    8.4
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.5
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    User Testimonials
    JAMSLightning Tools Actions
    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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    Lightning Tools
    We use SharePoint to manage over 100 legal litigation cases. We also use SharePoint for all of our internal billing and time keeping. There is great need for different SharePoint sites to be able to have access to other lists and data sources. List Actions provides an easy-to-use interface that we use to implement file copies between sites, workflow tracking of medical records through our medical collections department, send out medical record requests using the enhanced SendMail options. We have automated many tasks that used to take up considerable time and were error-prone. Having the logic of a workflow with all the steps carried out with a click of a button is great. Plus it is very fast.
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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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    Lightning Tools
    • Allow for workflow actions to be executed at the view level.
    • Has a full range of available tools. It's not just email for an approval.
    • Super easy to use and configure.
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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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    Lightning Tools
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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
    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
    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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    Lightning Tools
    • I have looked at every competitor out there and this tool plus the Forms designer is very affordable. It has become an integral part of our business.
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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.Screenshot of JAX  AI agent - built right into the JAMS Web Client. Ask it to find a job, troubleshoot a failure, or explain how something works, in plain language, and it answers grounded in real JAMS documentation.

    Lightning Tools Actions Screenshots

    Screenshot of SHAREPOINT LIST ACTION BUTTONS
Action buttons can be added to SharePoint lists, like this Expense Approval button. The button performs multiple actions on the SharePoint list items such as modifying the Approved field to Yes, Sending an email notification to the Expense Claimant, and Reloading the page. The Line Manager can select multiple items and approve them all in one click, rather than visit each item individually.Screenshot of ADDING SHAREPOINT LIST ACTION BUTTONS
SharePoint List Action buttons can be created quickly, with no coding experience required, and List Owners or Designers can create the buttons and actions within the context of the list itself.  Action buttons can also be configured to display only to the user with the rights to perform the action.Screenshot of BUILDING A SERIES OF LIST ACTIONS
Actions that can be configured include Updating field values with simple or complex expressions, sending emails, adding list items, creating list items or folders, running custom script, and calling other workflows.