Review of JAMS Scheduler
January 30, 2025

Review of JAMS Scheduler

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with JAMS

JAMS was used to execute JDE batch processing as well as run Oracle stored procedures and Powershell scripts

Pros

  • Ability to manage jobs across multiple platforms
  • Great error handling, alerting, recovery and management
  • Scripting options with Powershell scripts provided enhanced capability
  • Ability to manage, define and schedule jobs through a single interface

Cons

  • Installation process needs improvement due to minor bugs specifically for JDE integration
  • Ability to create Powershell scripts from GUI schedules would be nice
  • Updated documentation to cater for current release (found some gaps on occasion)
  • Reduced manual intervention saving time for resources
  • Improved reliability of jobs and management compared to prior solutions
  • Ability to act on job issues when notifications are sent ensuring the business impact is minimised
Able to test scalability options with minimal effort and leverage Powershell scripts to enable and disable agents. Especially useful when patching of target servers to ensure there is no impact to batch processing. Leveraged this along with JDE virtual batch queues and this was relatively easy to set-up and test.
Customer support was very good and above average for software support. Responses were provided in a good timeframe, and the support contact ensured the issues were resolved before closing them. I'd say this was one of the highlights. I found the support excellent, and everyone should be commended for their efforts. This is a big plus when it comes to setting up and configuring JAMS.
Tidal is a very good scheduler but very expensive and customers can't budget for this. REvScheduler is a lot cheaper but the interface isn't very aesthetics and functionality is lacking compared to JAMS. Out of all of them I'd recommend JAMS.

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

Native JDE support and integration along with error handling as well as enabling us to re-run jobs and set-up and configure dependencies.

Detailed alerting enabling us to determine when jobs or sequences fail and address accordingly.
Scalable and high availability solutions ensuring minimal interruptions.
Competitive pricing with other products making it a preferred solution.



JAMS Feature Ratings

Workload Automation
8.8
Multi-platform scheduling
9
Central monitoring
9
Logging
9
Alerts and notifications
9
Analysis and visualization
9
Application integration
8

Comments

  • Peter Hegland | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Peter Hegland
    commented 9 months ago
    Hi! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review and for being a loyal JAMS customer! I would like to learn more about how to create Powershell scripts from GUI schedules and what enhancements need to be made in JAMS to enable this. I am the General Manager of JAMS. Please reach out to me if you want to chat - peter.hegland@fortra.com. Thanks again! Best, Peter Hegland

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