Item: JAMS
Rating: 9
Author: Alex Taylor

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We determine and pay workers' compensation claims for government employees. JAMS is used to schedule the nightly claims processing tasks and refresh the Data Warehouse.

Pros and Cons

Runs a complex series of jobs in the correct order using dependencies.
Transfers files on and off-premises at scheduled times.
Alerts on-call staff of critical successes and failures, enabling restart.

An underlying Job Definition Language would be nice for source control and automation.

Return on Investment

Enables simple tasks that require a high level of security to be end users' self-service.
The client is user-friendly and easily deployed, allowing people to check their own jobs.
Based on our previous "main frame" scheduler, the ROI > 100% pa.

Support Rating

Questions are responded to within an hour generally. I get the same analyst every time, like they are sitting in the next cubical!

Alternatives Considered

AutoSys Workload Automation and BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI)

Other Software Used

Oracle WebLogic Application Server, Oracle Application Express, Oracle Java SE

JAMS has a small footprint, is quick and easy to install, populate with jobs and deploy to users, and includes a (working) Web Interface. This licensing is SME-friendly (good value) based on a very practical metric, jobs run per day. It can allow unlimited agents machines which give huge flexibility.

JAMS a simple scheduler that does the job.

Overall Satisfaction with JAMS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Return on Investment

Support Rating

Alternatives Considered

Key Insights

Do you think JAMS delivers good value for the price?

Are you happy with JAMS's feature set?

Did JAMS live up to sales and marketing promises?

Did implementation of JAMS go as expected?

Would you buy JAMS again?

Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

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