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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

    Pega Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.

    $0.45

    one-time fee per case**

    Pricing
    JAMSPega Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Core
    9,996.00
    per year
    Advanced
    Customized Pricing
    per year
    Low-code Factory Edition
    $0.45
    one-time fee per case**
    Standard Edition
    $0.80
    one-time fee per case**
    Enterprise Edition
    Custom Quote
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JAMSPega Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    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.**350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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    Community Pulse
    JAMSPega Platform
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    JAMS Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    67 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    59 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    68 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    49 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    55 Answers
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    JAMSPega Platform
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of JAMS and Pega Platform
    Feature
    JAMS
    7.4
    70 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pega Platform
    -
    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
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of JAMS and Pega Platform
    Feature
    JAMS
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    5.3
    63 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings4.062 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.062 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.061 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of JAMS and Pega Platform
    Feature
    JAMS
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings9.065 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.957 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings10.065 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings7.151 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.46 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings9.059 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.956 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of JAMS and Pega Platform
    Feature
    JAMS
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.050 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of JAMS and Pega Platform
    Feature
    JAMS
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    4.4
    9 Ratings
    59% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings4.49 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    JAMSPega Platform
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Apache Airflow
    Score8.7 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Redwood RunMyJobs
    Score9.7 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JAMSPega Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (72 ratings)
    7.9
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (72 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.9
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 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)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (70 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JAMSPega Platform
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
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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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    Pegasystems
    • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
    • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
    • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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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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    Pegasystems
    • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
    • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
    • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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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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    Pegasystems
    Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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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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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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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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    Pegasystems
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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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    Pegasystems
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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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    Pegasystems
    It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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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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    Pegasystems
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    Online Training
    JAMS Software
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    Pegasystems
    The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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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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    Pegasystems
    Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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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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    Pegasystems
    We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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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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    Pegasystems
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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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    Pegasystems
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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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    Pegasystems
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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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    Pegasystems
    • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
    • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
    • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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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.