JAMS vs. Lightning Tools Actions

The best environment is where you have lots of jobs from lots servers and need a history of detailed failures. Our web server, SQL server and App server all have applications that need scheduling. It wouldn't be necessary if you have a just a handful of jobs for which you can use task manager.

Incentivized

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.

• Execution of Batch Jobs, Scripts, Cron, Stored Procedure.
• Monitoring of Jobs that are executing, completed, and failed.
• Different Execution Methods are supported, like powershell, SQL task, file transfer, windows task scheduler, workflow, etc.
• Supports integration with other application like goanywhere MFT, SAP, Oracle, etc.
• Error handling and sending of notifications for different types of events particular to a defined job.
• JAMS allows you to manual or automatically deploy JAMS Agent.
• Very simple and user friendly, easy to understand and implement.

Incentivized

• 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.

• It would be very helpful if the application had the ability to display help text based on where the cursor is hovering on the screen. There are many times when a brief explanation of an on-screen prompt would be very handy. For example, when you attempt to Cancel a job from the Monitor, you are presented with the checkbox that says "Reprocess completion?" It would be very nice if you could hover over the prompt and see a pop-up help screen that explains what happens if you check this checkbox. The same applies to all the checkbox options presented when you attempt to "Release" a job from the Monitor.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

9/10 as there are so many features I have not tried as of yet. It is easy to get started but as jobs become more complex you tend to employ more and more features - Some of which can be complicated at first. This all comes down to experience using the system. Out first setup and current setup are vastly different as we learn how to use the full power.

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

From go live in 2012 to current, issues submitted, even if low priority, and could wait, are usually responded to in a few hours, most have been resolved the same day, or over a few days with interactive help from them (low priority question like how do I do this). Example questions have been what order to restart services. What ports are used by JAMS for our IT Group to open up the firewall for. The few Production issues we had are always responded to in a timely manner, usually within 15 minutes or sooner, even overnight issues.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

Our team vetted a competing
software, VisualCron, feedback as follows: 1. Difficult to use. 2. Questionable customer service -
Language barrier and did not respond to request for demo video recording.
3. VisualCron seems more powerful
but with that it is more difficult to use if you do not wish to do more
extensive coding to customise it.

Incentivized

i didnt have any involvement in the sales process, however we purchased the product so it had to be decent.

I can only speak in in regards to scalability in the volume of jobs we have created. Many of our jobs exist in multiple environments, with each environment having its own unique folder names, connection strings, etc. We incorporate parameters on the folder level that contain the unique environment information. The jobs reference these values from the folder they are contained in, so we can easily copy a job from DEV to TEST and the source is the same but the values passed from the parameters are not. This makes it very easy to create many new jobs and copy them across multiple environments and have them work.

Incentivized

i didnt have any involvement in the sales process, however we purchased the product so it had to be decent.

• Using JAMS when working from home (initially COVID, and now permanent) gives me tremendous visibility into the running operations of our business without any loss in productivity for not being in the office.
• With JAMS I can more tightly schedule evening batch jobs by running one job after the successful completion of predecessor, as opposed to the CRON like guessing at safe start times.
• Central control on a monitored server in a datacenter for all job scheduling tasks has given us 99.9% uptime reliability, instead of herding cats on multiple machines.

• 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.