JAMS for a small but sophisticated financial services firm.
February 16, 2024
JAMS for a small but sophisticated financial services firm.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with JAMS
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.
- Manages daily jobs across multiple machines, viewable on a single pane of glass.
- Seamlessly deal with our "end of day", while adjusting for holidays and early close days (typically before holidays).
- Securely manages FTP credentials for connecting to trusted partners.
- Prior to JAMS I organized various batch job runs with a user friendly naming process (job, machine, date, etc). I had to jump through hoops to get JAMS to replicate by having a post-completion job rename and copy the log.
- Natively support JAMS commands in Powershell7.
- Failsafe guard to prevent runaway jobs that submit other JAMS jobs that were improperly coded. i.e. A throttle setting for new JOBS. I once had production go down when hundreds of jobs used up our daily license allocation in under a minute.
- I have similar (but different) Execution Methods that would benefit from a shared template. Current setup is awkward to change.
- I'd love my job Definitions to be natively linked to github for version control.
- 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.
For us, JAMS has a great balance of price and functionality.
Do you think JAMS delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with JAMS's feature set?
Yes
Did JAMS live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of JAMS go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy JAMS again?
Yes