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    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

    VisualCron

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AVisualCron is an automation, Integration and Task Scheduler tool. VisualCron combines many features into one product. VisualCron was founded in 2004. Through scheduling users can set Jobs to run on a specific time or event with the help of Triggers. The Tasks in each Job automate scripts to eliminate human errors. Through various Tasks users can integrate different systems through file transfer, encryption, compression and…N/A
    Pricing
    JAMSVisualCron
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JAMSVisualCron
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$1,499 per Server
    Additional Details
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    JAMSVisualCron
    Considered Both Products
    JAMS Software
    Chose JAMS
    Our team vetted a competing software, VisualCron, feedback as follows:
    1. Difficult to use.
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    Chose JAMS
    VisualCron was unreliable and buggy no matter what version we used, plus did not have DR functionality
    Incentivized
    NetCart DBA VisualCron
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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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
    JAMSVisualCron
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of JAMS and VisualCron
    Feature
    JAMS
    8.0
    45 Ratings
    VisualCron
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-platform scheduling8.738 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring8.443 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging8.243 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications8.143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization6.941 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration7.542 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of JAMS and VisualCron
    Feature
    JAMS
    -
    Ratings
    VisualCron
    3.5
    1 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of JAMS and VisualCron
    Feature
    JAMS
    -
    Ratings
    VisualCron
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of JAMS and VisualCron
    Feature
    JAMS
    -
    Ratings
    VisualCron
    4.2
    1 Ratings
    Process designer00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Business Process Automation
    Comparison of Business Process Automation features of JAMS and VisualCron
    Feature
    JAMS
    -
    Ratings
    VisualCron
    4.3
    1 Ratings
    Business Process Modeling00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Decision Modeling00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Code-Based Automation00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    No-Code Automation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    JAMSVisualCron
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (45 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (45 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 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)
    -
    (0 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)