JAMS vs. Redwood RunMyJobs

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
JAMS
Score 8.2 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
Redwood RunMyJobs
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Redwood Business Process Automation is a workload automation and job scheduling solution designed for and delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It transforms the digital enterprise with scalability and integration with all technologies in the modern enterprise. Redwood unifies workflows across on-premises, private, hybrid and public cloud environments. It bridges gaps in complex processes that function between mainframe, distributed, virtual and cloud resources. Clients use Redwood to…N/A
Pricing
JAMSRedwood RunMyJobs
Editions & Modules
Core
9,996.00
per year
Advanced
Customized Pricing
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JAMSRedwood RunMyJobs
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.
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Community Pulse
JAMSRedwood RunMyJobs
Considered Both Products
JAMS
Chose JAMS
For us, JAMS has a great balance of price and functionality.
Redwood RunMyJobs

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Features
JAMSRedwood RunMyJobs
Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
JAMS
7.8
56 Ratings
7% below category average
Redwood RunMyJobs
9.4
21 Ratings
11% above category average
Multi-platform scheduling8.549 Ratings9.621 Ratings
Central monitoring8.054 Ratings9.421 Ratings
Logging7.953 Ratings9.421 Ratings
Alerts and notifications8.353 Ratings9.421 Ratings
Analysis and visualization7.052 Ratings9.621 Ratings
Application integration7.352 Ratings9.220 Ratings
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
JAMSRedwood RunMyJobs
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(56 ratings)
9.5
(27 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(10 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(9 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Availability
8.9
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.9
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(56 ratings)
7.1
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.3
(54 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.8
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
JAMSRedwood RunMyJobs
Likelihood to Recommend
JAMS Software
It's currently one of the best of the lower entry cost options out there, as it currently is a set license cost, not based on the number of jobs executed. In the hands of a good script writer and users with workflow experience, it's a powerful tool to accomplish just about any process that you have a need to complete.
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Redwood Software
The automation of batch processing operations like file transfers, data backups, and report production is a good fit for Redwood Workload Automation. Organizations' IT operations can be streamlined and made more efficient because to its capacity to automate and schedule these procedures across a variety of platforms. Redwood Workload Automation is highly suited for automating complicated business operations within SAP settings and has a close interaction with SAP systems. Organizations may automate and streamline their SAP processes with the help of its ability to handle SAP tasks, spools, and workflows. Redwood Workload Automation excels at automating workloads on a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Unix, and other cloud environments. This makes it a viable option for businesses that need automation across numerous systems and have complex IT infrastructures. For large businesses with complicated IT environments, Redwood Workload Automation was created. It is the perfect option for enterprises with high-volume transaction processing requirements due to its scalability and capacity for handling large-scale workloads.
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Pros
JAMS Software
  • The Activity Monitor clearly shows the Running Jobs, and Jobs that are to run soon. Successful Jobs can be viewed as well. The Refresh of this monitor is completely customizable to your liking.
  • Job Definitions are very well organized by use of Folders. This simplifies the structure of how to best Implement JAMS Jobs, including the ability to provide specific properties on each folder - whereby Jobs will inherit these properties.
  • Connectivity to servers is well thought out by having Shortcuts to include Credentials and Connection Store for server information.
  • JAMS Jobs can be controlled via System Resources. This is very powerful and is a very useful configuration found in JAMS.
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Redwood Software
  • SAP Batch Scheduling - This is THE BEST tool for triggering SAP jobs, bar none.
  • User management- Other scheduling tools make it much more difficult to manage user access. Redwood user access management is a breeze and take less than half the time it take in other products.
  • Scheduling Flexibility- The ease with which you can make custom time windows with Redwood is one of my favorite pluses. You can build as simple or as complex of a time window as you need to with Redwood.
  • Support- The support that you get from Redwood is in my opinion the best in the world. I have dealt with all the big name players in IT and they all pale in comparison to Redwood. You will never feel like you are in it alone with the best support in the world right at your fingertips.
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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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Redwood Software
  • A dashboard for checking the overall health of the tool
  • Direct excel export option is unavailable to transport the jobs.
  • Mobile notification is also helpful for those user who worked in 24*7 shift. if this option will available it is very useful for those user who needs to check system again and again
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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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Redwood Software
Being in the cloud is a big help, with less hardware to maintain, the patches and updates are fast and easily done, we have built a good working relationship with Redwood.
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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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Redwood Software
The Redwood user interface is straightforward. The script can be used to renew the Redwood license by just copying the text from the. txt file from start to finish of license. The current page and the status of the work can both be refreshed automatically by setting a timer in Redwood. Redwood software's eye-catching features include online help through documentation and help support, which may be accessed by clicking the "I" button in the top right corner.
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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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Redwood Software
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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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Redwood Software
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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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Redwood Software
It seems many pressing issues have to be escalated to their dev team, which I believe is mostly overseas. The response time isn't always the greatest. I go back to the documentation as well, if that was better there would be less need of support from myself. There are also times when they figure out the resolution, it has to be included with a fix in which you have to wait for the next release, however long that may be. Update - the support response time and quality of answers has greatly increased in the past 6 months or more.
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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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Redwood Software
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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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Redwood Software
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Alternatives Considered
JAMS Software
I had evaluated 2 others in 2010/2011, but I do not remember their names. This was the easier one to work with and had a better looking, sometimes more professional looking UI than what I was evaluating. JAMS was more scaleable and had the ability to make custom interfaces to more systems through Execution Methods that could be tailored.
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Redwood Software
Hi, We use redwood workload automation for scheduling jobs and for automatic alerts generation in case of long running and failed jobs. It provides easy access of managing jobs and controlling the flow of automation. Alerts generated keeps us up to date of the long running jobs as well as failed jobs. Configuring the jobs is easy and scheduling them through redwood makes it very effective for 24hours monitoring. The Redwood Support team is very helpful and gives prompt response and faster resolution when needed.
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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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Redwood Software
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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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Redwood Software
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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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Redwood Software
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Return on Investment
JAMS Software
  • 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.
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Redwood Software
  • Simple to install Redwood Workload Automation agent servers on every server side and trigger the necessary jobs in keeping with business needs.
  • Allows for the interdependent scheduling of groups of Windows scripts and shell scripts.
  • Many problems have been fixed, such as the ability to gather data on the number of activities that are executed each day, receive email notifications when a job expires, and connect system agents to monitors.
  • capable of adhering to SLAs for complicated order flows
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ScreenShots

JAMS Screenshots

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 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.

Redwood RunMyJobs Screenshots

Screenshot of Dashboard users see when first logging in.Screenshot of Shows a specific process definition, how a user would edit that definition.Screenshot of Built in testing environment to run the definition without leaving the definitionScreenshot of Editing a whole process chain, not just a single processScreenshot of Shows the Process Monitor where we can see the status of the chain execution, this instance is with an errorScreenshot of Shows the Process Monitor where we can see the status of the chain execution, this instance is without an error