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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

    PagerDuty

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) provides digital operations management. Serving organizations of all sizes, PagerDuty aims to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time.

    $25

    per month per user

    Pricing
    JAMSPagerDuty
    Editions & Modules
    Core
    9,996.00
    per year
    Advanced
    Customized Pricing
    per year
    Professional
    $25
    per month per user
    Business
    $49
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JAMSPagerDuty
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    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.Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Features
    JAMSPagerDuty
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of JAMS and PagerDuty
    Feature
    JAMS
    7.4
    70 Ratings
    11% below category average
    PagerDuty
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-platform scheduling8.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring7.868 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging7.268 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications8.167 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization6.466 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration6.765 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    JAMSPagerDuty
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (72 ratings)
    8.6
    (173 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (11 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (72 ratings)
    9.0
    (86 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.9
    (10 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (70 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
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    8.5
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    User Testimonials
    JAMSPagerDuty
    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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    PagerDuty
    To be sincere, PagerDuty is a powerful, intelligent, and dependable on-call and incident management tool that provides amazing solutions to our company. Therefore, if someone is looking for reliability and accuracy in incident management, I will not hesitate to recommend PagerDuty. It is easy to use, and it will give you value for money.
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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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    PagerDuty
    • PagerDuty sends the alerts set on high severity incidents on time and never misses any single instance.
    • PagerDuty help to send alert to mobile calls and Team channel for outage.
    • PagerDuty also resolves some of the high severity incidents as part of self healing mechanism.
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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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    PagerDuty
    • When I open PagerDuty the page does look a little cluttered or busy.
    • It would be nice to go to the page with clear and straightforward instructions on what I must address.
    • Ability to change the color background.
    • Add a timer and alarms for tasks that need completed.
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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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    PagerDuty
    They have been rock solid for us thus far and are not very expensive and to be honest no time to evaluate other software at this point.
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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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    PagerDuty
    The UI is more complex than I would like. Part of the challenge is that most users use PagerDuty infrequently; I don't remember how I changed a policy last time. Another part of the challenge is that some users expect alerting to be a trivial feature, and are reluctant to invest any time in reading the documentation.
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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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    PagerDuty
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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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    PagerDuty
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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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    PagerDuty
    PagerDuty is reliable and easy to set up. It gives an effective way to notify the team about critical incidents which results in a faster turnaround time on issues. users can customize their alerts rules based on their preferences. Overall it's effective and easy to use which adds great business value.
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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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    PagerDuty
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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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    PagerDuty
    When I setup notifications to PD thru the Python API I was impressed with the ease with which I could set up the software/service.
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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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    PagerDuty
    OpsGenie was useful, mainly for teams already using Atlassian tools, and xMatters was good for handling team communication during incidents, but PagerDuty felt more complete for managing the full incident process in one place. We went with PagerDuty because it manages alerts, escalations, and on-call duties in a more organized and dependable way, which fits better with how our teams work daily.
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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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    PagerDuty
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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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    PagerDuty
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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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    PagerDuty
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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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    PagerDuty
    • Allow our service to be available 24/7 with minimal downtime, improving customer experience
    • Monitor incidents and allow us to customize/schedule alert notifications, making engineers' jobs easier and preventing turnover
    • Prevent SEVs that could deteriorate, bring down our service, and cost us millions of dollars from loss in bookings
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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.

    PagerDuty Screenshots

    Screenshot of Similar Incidents [Apple iPad], Open Incidents [iPhone 8], On-Call Schedule Menu [Apple Watch])Screenshot of the Machine Learning with Technical Service Dependencies, used to better understand related incidents.Screenshot of a glimpse of service health and team performance via PagerDuty’s Intelligent Dashboards.