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JAMS vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    JAMS

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AJAMS 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

    Ansible

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AThe Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.

    $5,000

    per year

    Pricing
    JAMSAnsible
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic Tower
    5,000
    per year
    Enterprise Tower
    10,000
    per year
    Premium Tower
    14,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JAMSAnsible
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    JAMSAnsible
    Considered Both Products
    JAMS Software
    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
    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
    Red Hat
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
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    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
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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
    JAMSAnsible
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of JAMS and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    Feature
    JAMS
    8.0
    45 Ratings
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-platform scheduling8.738 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring8.443 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging8.243 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications8.143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization7.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration7.542 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configuration Management
    Comparison of Configuration Management features of JAMS and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    Feature
    JAMS
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    8.6
    44 Ratings
    Infrastructure Automation00 Ratings9.244 Ratings
    Automated Provisioning00 Ratings8.841 Ratings
    Parallel Execution00 Ratings8.840 Ratings
    Node Management00 Ratings8.432 Ratings
    Reporting & Logging00 Ratings7.841 Ratings
    Version Control00 Ratings8.738 Ratings
    User Ratings
    JAMSAnsible
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (45 ratings)
    9.5
    (108 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (45 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.7
    (43 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)