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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

    Rocket OpsCentral

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ARocket OpsCentral (formerly from ASG) provides a standardized interface that will allow Operations Management personnel to centrally manage the workload across the enterprise. This includes the ability to define and manage scheduling workloads for multiple Zeke and Zena implementations. OpsCentral provides: Real-time job status representation and full-schedule management capabilities, including easily identifiable exceptions, abends, and current job…N/A
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    JAMSRocket OpsCentral
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    Offerings
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    JAMSRocket OpsCentral
    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
    JAMSRocket OpsCentral
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    JAMS Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    47 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    41 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    35 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    JAMSRocket OpsCentral
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of JAMS and Rocket OpsCentral
    Feature
    JAMS
    8.0
    45 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Rocket OpsCentral
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    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
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    JAMSRocket OpsCentral
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    Apache Airflow
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Redwood RunMyJobs
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JAMSRocket OpsCentral
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (45 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.9
    (8 ratings)
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    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.5
    (45 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
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    Configurability
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    8.7
    (43 ratings)
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    Professional Services
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    JAMSRocket OpsCentral
    Likelihood to Recommend
    JAMS Software
    It's currently one of the best of the lower entry cost options out there, as it currently is a set license cost, not based on the number of jobs executed. In the hands of a good script writer and users with workflow experience, it's a powerful tool to accomplish just about any process that you have a need to complete.
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    Rocket Software
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    Pros
    JAMS Software
    • The Activity Monitor clearly shows the Running Jobs, and Jobs that are to run soon. Successful Jobs can be viewed as well. The Refresh of this monitor is completely customizable to your liking.
    • Job Definitions are very well organized by use of Folders. This simplifies the structure of how to best Implement JAMS Jobs, including the ability to provide specific properties on each folder - whereby Jobs will inherit these properties.
    • Connectivity to servers is well thought out by having Shortcuts to include Credentials and Connection Store for server information.
    • JAMS Jobs can be controlled via System Resources. This is very powerful and is a very useful configuration found in JAMS.
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    Cons
    JAMS Software
    • Would love to see JAMS become a SaaS type of product instead of needing to be hosted by ourselves
    • having lots of jobs in the monitor area can lead to performance issues when running the client locally
    • dashboard and reporting tools could be more user friendly and provide more functionality to help monitoring teams spot recurring issues easily
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    Likelihood to Renew
    JAMS Software
    JAMS is a critical resource free up people to do other things and ensuring that processes and tasks are run consistently. We are also confident that procedures are run consistently and on time or as soon as the necessary data is available. With automated job failure notification, we are not required to check that jobs are running correctly.
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    Rocket Software
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    Usability
    JAMS Software
    JAMS is very user friendly; you hardly need to do coding. The only thing that I would say a challenge is setting it up, but that's because you barely know the product yet and, in every processing, setting up is the difficult part. But once you've set it up and you are going to use it, you will really feel that it is worth to invest in this kind of software solution, it really does it job very well.
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    Rocket Software
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    Reliability and Availability
    JAMS Software
    We didnt really encounter any downtime, no issues encountered during 2 years of use of JAMs also our client barely raise an issue with JAMS, mostly the issues is on the batch jobs that jams executes. So I would gave it a perfect 10, very reliable hardly encounters any error and bug
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    Performance
    JAMS Software
    JAMS performance is very great, there are no issues raised with the performance, it just like nothing happens on the job after integration it gives you this monitoring capability, no reports and bugs raised on the performance, we didnt do integration with other software only database and with use of JAMS agent to different servers
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    Rocket Software
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    Support Rating
    JAMS Software
    I've never had to wait more than a day for a response to any email queries submitted. We had a very positive experience using support hours during out migration process from v6 to v7. We've also recently had a weeklong group training course where all attendees were positive about the learning outcomes, a shoutout to Jose who did both the migration and the weeklong course!
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    In-Person Training
    JAMS Software
    People that were involved in the POC found the training a lot easier to follow. I think most people would have preferred to just get the training material and run through themselves.
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    Implementation Rating
    JAMS Software
    I Was not part of the original Implementation, and the persons did that are no longer with the Organization. But I was part of the recent Upgrade process a year ago and I am the JAMS admin and was very pleased
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    Alternatives Considered
    JAMS Software
    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 more systems through Execution Methods that could be tailored.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    JAMS Software
    i didnt have any involvement in the sales process, however we purchased the product so it had to be decent.
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    Scalability
    JAMS Software
    The product is quite flexible. There are a number of features and functions that we use on a daily basis, and there are many features that are available that we have not yet needed or explored (like setting up jobs with the ability to do FTP or Sftp file transfers).
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    Professional Services
    JAMS Software
    i didnt have any involvement in the sales process, however we purchased the product so it had to be decent.
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    Return on Investment
    JAMS Software
    • 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.
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    ScreenShots

    JAMS Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Visual Job Editor - a drag and drop editor for tasks is used to build multistep workflows that include dependencies, user input, parallel processes, and triggers.Screenshot of the Centralized Job Repository - here users store job definitions, schedules, and parameters in one central database.Screenshot of the Job Monitor - this displays the status of jobs and workloads from one central monitoring console. Viewers can drill down on individual jobs to diagnose failures, dependencies, and expected completion times.Screenshot of a Dashboard - Here, users can create data-rich visuals to monitor critical batch jobs and workflows running on various agents and on different business applications.Screenshot of the Centralized Job Repository - Stores job definitions, schedules, and parameters in a central database.