JAMS

JAMS

75 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
JAMS	Score8.3 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.	N/A

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JAMS

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Pricing Offerings
JAMS
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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	JAMS
Considered Both Products	JAMS Software Verified User Chose JAMS Our developers found it easier to get going with JAMS and there seemed to be better calendar and scheduling options available in JAMS. JAMS also supported legacy OS versions that were unsupported and did not work in Automic. This was a vital requirement in selecting a solution … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose JAMS I have not researched other workload automation products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose 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. Incentivized Helpful? Ken Enginger, MBA Systems Administrator in Information Technology at MMAscend (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose JAMS JAMS is less expensive, support is easier to work with, and patching is much easier. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose JAMS In my opinion, while JAMS is useful for point and click like developers, Astro is more useful for software developers, whole like to see "scheduling as code". in the long run, I think Astro might overtake JAMS in terms of usage and use cases that it satisfies across the tech … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Basham Senior Manager in Information Technology at Concentrix (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose JAMS We used to have Control-M but replaced it with JAMS for better features and cost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose JAMS JAMS was much more cost-effective and easier to use. JAMS allowed us to centralize our job scheduling more fully. Converting from our previous, very limited scheduler to JAMS would be far more accessible than Automox. Incentivized Helpful? Jayvie Britanico Technical Support Engineer in Information Technology at Bridgeway Communication System Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose JAMS N/A. I don't have any experience with different Job Management Software. Since JAMS is capable of doing most of our daily operations, we didn't look for other software. I can say that JAMS perfectly fits with us and with our clients. I've only heard about Direct M, which, based … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose JAMS No others. Incentivized Helpful? Ken Enginger Systems Adminisrator in Information Technology at MMAscend (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose JAMS We switched from Automic Automation. JAMS is so much easier to implement, patch, upgrade, and push agents. It takes more steps to conduct activities in JAMS than in UC4. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose JAMS 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Robert Gusick Chief Information Officer in Information Technology at Alpine Associates Management (Facilities Services, 11-50 employees) Chose JAMS For us, JAMS has a great balance of price and functionality. Incentivized Helpful? Xiaomei Chen, PMP® Project Manager in Information Technology at Ontario Medical Association (Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees) Chose JAMS Our team vetted a competing software, VisualCron, feedback as follows: 1. Difficult to use. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Tian Senior Database Administrator in Information Technology at Wolters Kluwer (Legal Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose JAMS We used JAMS for over 15 years. We like to use it. Incentivized Helpful? Paul Lee Senior Database Administrator in Information Technology at Serve You Rx (Pharmaceuticals, 51-200 employees) Chose JAMS Mainly i've been using SQL Agent jobs in my career. JAMS takes scheduling a bit further. For instance, i would rather not have SQL Server run a job that is performing an SFTP step. Waste of resources and a job like that is well suited for JAMS Incentivized Helpful? Louis Anthony Cortina ETL Developer in Information Technology at Dovenmuehle, Inc. (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose JAMS I might've used other scheduling mechanisms (such as in SQL Server), but JAMS, although with more 'moving pieces', is way more flexible. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose JAMS JAMS is easier to use, provides more features and was easier to manage form a central location. simple features in JAMS were missing from VisualCron such as a projected daily schedule. The install setup with a client and agents was better suited for us too Incentivized Helpful? David Wright GIS Architect in Information Technology at State of Washington - Department of Revenue (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees) Chose JAMS Not Applicable to our Agency/Division. Incentivized Helpful? Kelly Van Tuyl System Administrator in Information Technology at TABcom, LLC (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees) Chose JAMS It's just different. The views are different, how you set it up is different. It's not good or bad, just different. I think JAMS offers more options when it comes to how jobs run. Like you can use sequence, or setup a job to run based on a number of different dependencies. Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Johnsen Senior Consultant in Information Technology at RSI (Government Relations, 201-500 employees) Chose JAMS While Redwood offers a modern UI, JAMS is much easier to use. For basic operations, it's simple to create a job and schedule it. For those with more experience, JAMS offers much more robust features to take advantage of. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose JAMS We use Kace also because it has an agent on every machine, so tasks that push out installations tend to go there. I'm not sure if Jams can do that, but if it does it's not clear that it does. Incentivized Helpful? William Madley Trading Application Analyst in Information Technology at StoneX (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose JAMS While VisualCron provided more guardrails and user centric GUI, JAMS had a better resiliency functions with their clustering and service polling and failovers. We tested this and were able to maintain a large library of jobs and data the seamlessly switches between data … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

JAMS

Comparison of Workload Automation features of JAMS
Feature	JAMS 8.0 45 Ratings
Multi-platform scheduling	8.738 Ratings
Central monitoring	8.443 Ratings
Logging	8.243 Ratings
Alerts and notifications	8.143 Ratings
Analysis and visualization	7.041 Ratings
Application integration	7.542 Ratings

User Ratings
	JAMS
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (45 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (9 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (8 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (5 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (45 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.2 (7 ratings)
Configurability	8.1 (4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	6.4 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.1 (3 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.7 (43 ratings)
Professional Services	9.0 (3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (4 ratings)