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What is JAMS?

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.

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Recent Reviews

JAMS Review.

10 out of 10
March 20, 2024
Incentivized
We use JAMS to run jobs to extract data from source systems like SAP, Salesforce, flat files, and other DBS like Postgre and MySQL and …
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Jams Software Review

9 out of 10
March 05, 2024
Incentivized
We use Jams for the Job Automation and Processing. The File processing and Data ingestion into our Database is very critical for the …
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Prompt customer support

8 out of 10
February 08, 2024
We use JAMS as our primary scheduler. All of our ssis package are scheduled via JAMS. Our daily reporting is schedule via JAMS. Most …
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Smart and Intelligent

10 out of 10
August 01, 2023
Incentivized
JAMS is an intelligent scheduler, it helped to harmonize different and scattered jobs schedulers into one platform. JAMS features has …
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Popular Features

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  • Central monitoring (35)
    8.0
    80%
  • Alerts and notifications (35)
    8.0
    80%
  • Application integration (34)
    7.7
    77%
  • Logging (35)
    7.7
    77%

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What is JAMS?

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.

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Workload Automation

Workload automation tools manage event-based scheduling and resource management across a wide variety of applications, databases and architectures

7.8
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Product Details

What is JAMS?

JAMS is an enterprise job scheduling and workload automation solution that manages IT processes – from simple batch processes and scripts, to cross-platform workflows that integrate jobs running on multiple servers and business applications. JAMS enables users to define, schedule, execute and monitor jobs from a single centralized console.

JAMS can automate jobs on any platform - Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM i, zOS, and OpenVMS and includes native application integrations to run jobs specific to databases, BI tools, and ERP systems. Its automation features enable users to run jobs on any schedule, as well as trigger off the completion of other events. JAMS centrally monitors the status of all jobs, provides notifications of failure (or success), and maintains a detailed audit trail and log of every execution.

JAMS helps enterprises eliminate the slack, security risks, and lack of visibility associated with trying to automate critical business processes with a jumble of homegrown, single-platform scheduling tools and scripts. Once jobs are centrally managed in JAMS, JAMS will manage cross-platform workflows to drive results.

A Key Part of Fortra (the new face of HelpSystems) JAMS is part of Fortra’s comprehensive portfolio. Fortra's goal is to simplify today’s complex business landscape by bringing complementary products together to solve problems in innovative ways. These integrated, scalable solutions address the many challenges businesses face in streamlining operations.

JAMS Features

Workload Automation Features

  • Supported: Multi-platform scheduling
  • Supported: Central monitoring
  • Supported: Logging
  • Supported: Alerts and notifications
  • Supported: Analysis and visualization
  • Supported: Application integration

Additional Features

  • Supported: Security settings
  • Supported: High availability
  • Supported: Relational job diagram
  • Supported: Job triggers

JAMS Screenshots

Screenshot of Dashboard - Job HistoryScreenshot of Visual Job EditorScreenshot of Centralized Job RepositoryScreenshot of Job Monitor

JAMS Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Unix, iSeries, OpenVMS
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Multi-platform scheduling highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of JAMS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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March 20, 2024

JAMS Review.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use JAMS to run jobs to extract data from source systems like SAP, Salesforce, flat files, and other DBS like Postgre and MySQL and bring them into the Azure data warehouse. Then, we run jobs to transform the data via SQL and Azure adf pipelines and refresh Tableau data sources via JAMS jobs for the end users to consume data.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use JAMS to automate data transfers, quality checks and loading raw data from multiple sources into our data warehouse. JAMS allows us to automate this entire process, which uses multiple programming languages and statistical programs. We work with about 50 different data providers using different transfer processes, and JAMS lets us be compatible with all of these.
March 05, 2024

Jams Software Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Jams for the Job Automation and Processing. The File processing and Data ingestion into our Database is very critical for the success of our business and some of these files we receive from Vendors is nightly and has to be processed in a Sequential order and has to be processed both On-prem and in the cloud. We have automated these processes using Jams Tool
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use JAMS as a centralized scheduler to manage the scheduling of tasks, jobs, and processes for our Oracle and Microsoft databases and Windows server tasks. Having the schedules in JAMS allowed us to provide better visibility of the details of the processes to different teams and departments while still maintaining complete control of security and access to the individual jobs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We started using JAMS in 2012 to supplement a scheduling ability that was missing in our Order Management system at that time. In 2020, we left that platform for a new OMS that had an internal scheduler. We use JAMS to pick up and transfer files when they become available - File Watches. We use JAMS to run Power Shell scripts to scrub Data, concatenate and de-dupe data files for Sales. We also use JAMS to sequence files that go to our OMS that need to be completed before feeding the next file - combination of File Watches and Network copy commands.
Robert Gusick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We're a small firm based on staff (~20), but we manage a lot of money as a hedge fund (>$1B). We need sophisticated & reliable tools to manage our systems but require that they can be managed by one person (me). JAMS fits the bill perfectly for us.
February 08, 2024

Prompt customer support

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use JAMS as our primary scheduler. All of our ssis package are scheduled via JAMS. Our daily reporting is schedule via JAMS. Most recently working with JAMS support have been able to leverage powershell integration with an sftp solution. Support was able to provide me with a very quick response to an issue that i was having and now i'm writing a best practices document for the entire company to leverage JAMS with a standard approach to SFTP jobs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use JAMS for a variety of things. We use it to automate: Scheduling for SAS Data Integration & SAS EDW Triggers within our environment. Scheduling of server tasks such as cleanup and maintenance tasks w/ PowerShell. Movement, SFTP, and Archival Tasks associated w/ a variety of different files throughout our organization. Email tasks to end users about job statuses. We're constantly learning new ways in which we can use the JAMS Scheduler and making process improvements within our organization on a daily basis.
Xiaomei Chen, PMP® | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We had been using an old job batch processor for our organisation's batch job scheduling and data processing needs. When we upgraded our Window's Server to 2019, the old program was no longer compatible with the server. When we transitioned to find a job batch processor software that would be compatible with the new server and allow us to have multiple users submit jobs in a much better manner. We looked at a couple of software companies and Fortra JAMS is the closest thing we have found that met our needs, and in some ways, it is better with a more robust system and user-friendly interface. The automated job submission capabilities from within simple applications using JAMS allow us to modernise our data processing methods and job scheduling ques on the new Windows Server.
August 01, 2023

Smart and Intelligent

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JAMS is an intelligent scheduler, it helped to harmonize different and scattered jobs schedulers into one platform. JAMS features has helped our organization in multi fold. Be it data availability to Sales Analytics or to exchange data to Vendors, JAMS features like event based scheduling, several integration capabilities and the User friendly UI are helping us to boost the productivity.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use JAMS as central scheduler and monitor to schedule almost all different application server jobs, SQL Server Jobs. It is a solution not just a tool, to set up and run simple to complex tasks cross the different platforms.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We schedule various jobs to run based on all sorts of dependencies and sequences using JAMS, mostly automation of extracts, data imports, and data manipulation jobs.
Louis Anthony Cortina | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JAMS is used to schedule JAMS setups that run Talend Jobs to generate extract files (in .csv, .txt, .xlsx format) from databases in the Hadoop cluster.
The Talend Jobs are used to convert existing output files (from other sources) to extractions from the Hadoop databases, as well as create new client requests for output
I use JAMS to schedule these Talend processes to run on a daily, weekly, particular days of the week, quarterly, specific calendar days of the week, and annual basis.
March 22, 2023

JAMS Automates Great

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use JAMS very extensively to run automated jobs across our environment. This allows us to devote resources elsewhere and also to reduce errors and human mistakes. Our JAMS jobs perform a very wide range of automated tasks across our software applications.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have about 20k plus job which we schedule at various frequency and time, each with its own duration of execution. We needed an enterprise wide solution which would be able to handle the load of such big setup. JAMS has a big plus of having a customer support which helps us assist the optimal use of the tool.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JAMS is the primary SAS report scheduling tool used by my team, and also used by other teams in our company. We switched from a prior software to JAMS because it allowed us better control in handling failed reports and our prior software was limited in what kind of jobs could be scheduled. In particular, its ability to inherit multiple variables gave us a lot of flexibility for unifying reports.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We currently use JAMS as part of our Automation as an alternative to Windows Task Scheduler or other internal Job Processing software.
In general it it used as a scheduling tool for processes we need to run at regular intervals along with executing Jobs or processes that are conditional based for example file watch trigger or specific time/date triggers etc
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At WADOR in the Location Services and GIS Program, we use JAMS is used in 2 main types of flows;

  1. Scheduled jobs that run single or multi-step sequences that check folders for uploads and if there is content found executes executables to process data in a managed space.
  2. We have WebApps/WebServices that submit a job that kicks off another process that is a managed workflow that then submits other jobs that then submit the next job in the sequence at the right time.
So in this instance we are not only using the Scheduler to schedule and run known/pre-planned jobs but also for job orchestration based on complex workflows.
March 09, 2023

I would JAM to JAMS!!

Kelly Van Tuyl | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Right now we are just demoing JAMS, but we would use it to schedule roughly 5,000 unique jobs a day. Anywhere from sending files via FTP, creating files, processing shipping files. We also run SQL jobs that keep our databases clean. The JAMS client seems very user friendly and support has been great in trying to help us learn how to use it. It's not overly complicated to use, just different from what we are used to.
March 09, 2023

JAMS Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We run a variety of business workflows, sequences, and jobs, both ad hoc and scheduled. JAMS allows our users to leverage a wide range of job methods to complete any tasks. The integration packs make leveraging these external sources even easier.
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