--- title: JAMS Reviews meta_title: 'JAMS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 270 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how JAMS works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 270 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-20' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # JAMS Reviews **Vendor:** JAMS Software, LLC **Category:** [Workload Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/workload-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 270 ## About JAMS JAMS is an automation orchestration and job scheduling solution that works across applications, APIs, and scripting languages. Run, monitor, and manage critical IT processes—from simple batch jobs to cross-platform workflows—from a single pane of glass. JAMS can automate jobs on any platform - Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM i, zOS, and OpenVMS and includes native application integrations to run jobs specific to databases, BI tools, and ERP systems. Its extensive automation features enable you to run jobs on any schedule, as well as trigger off the completion of other events. JAMS centrally monitors the status of all jobs, provides notifications of failure (or success), and maintains a detailed audit trail and log of every execution. ## JAMS Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise **easy and efficient task management** with JAMS, highlighting powerful cross-platform scheduling and superb event triggers. (32 reviews) - Users value the **easy and efficient task scheduling** of JAMS, benefiting from seamless cross-platform functionality. (32 reviews) - Users value the **ease of automation** with JAMS, enhancing organization and efficiency across IT operations. (19 reviews) - Users value the **powerful cross-platform scheduling** of JAMS, enhancing job management and automation efficiently. (15 reviews) - Users find JAMS to be **easy and efficient** for managing scheduled tasks across multiple servers and databases. (14 reviews) - Reliability (13 reviews) - Users appreciate the **centralized management console** of JAMS, simplifying job tracking and enhancing operational efficiency in mixed environments. (12 reviews) - Users commend the **efficient and prompt customer support** of JAMS, enhancing user experience and problem resolution. (12 reviews) - Integrations (11 reviews) - Workload Automation (10 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find JAMS to have a **difficult learning curve** , making it challenging for new users to adapt quickly. (14 reviews) - Users note **poor UI design** in JAMS, finding it outdated and complicated for easier navigation and new user adaptation. (14 reviews) - Users find **scheduling issues** with JAMS due to limited reporting, hindering troubleshooting and efficiency improvements. (10 reviews) - Users often struggle with **dependency issues** in JAMS, causing confusion and complicating workflow management significantly. (8 reviews) - Users feel the **limited features** of JAMS restrict its usability and modernize requirements for effective operation. (7 reviews) - Users find JAMS to be **beginner-unfriendly** , requiring significant time and expertise to navigate effectively. (6 reviews) - Users find the **setup process cumbersome** and complex, making it challenging to utilize JAMS effectively. (6 reviews) - Complex Reporting (5 reviews) - Users find the **outdated interface** of JAMS hampers navigation and usability, impacting overall efficiency and user experience. (5 reviews) - Automation Limitations (4 reviews) ## JAMS Reviews ### 1. JAMS, the seemingly complicated but very thorough job scheduler with amazing support. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The ability to schedule Banner Jobs directly from JAMS is amazing. I also love their support! They are always thorough, quick to respond, and very helpful. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Honestly the only negative thing I have to say about JAMS is some of the complicated procedures and dated documentation. We have also encountered a couple of bugs when copying over sequences. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to allow users to run/control banner-related jobs instead of having IT handle it. **Official Response from Kevin Vliet:** > Thanks for the great review! We're very proud of our integration with Ellucian Banner, so we're glad you enjoy it! We are constantly working to improve our documentation, so be sure to keep an eye out for regular updates. Please also feel free to open tickets with JAMS Support should you notice any irregularities with the documentation or have other questions about JAMS. We're here to help, so don't be shy! ### 2. JAMS Job Scheduler Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Jobs management with batch queues and Agents **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The windows in which we have to set properties are too small. The application is not intuitive. To be able to bulk modify jobs we have created multiple PowerShell scripts - the option should be provided in the application itself. Failure action cannot set easily. Sometimes we feel that to create a new job, or modify one job the application is good. But, it is not good to migrate jobs in bulk because not all properties from the servers are getting migrated. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** None **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do not have to use jobs servers or DB servers to host and run jobs. Easy maintenance **Official Response from Kevin Vliet:** > Thanks for the review! JAMS is great for centralizing your workload into one pane of glass without needing to host your jobs on individual servers, so I'm glad to hear you're getting value from that! I suspect some of your noted concerns about JAMS could be alleviated with a session or two with our dedicated JAMS Support team. Feel free to chat with them or submit a ticket via our JAMS Support site and they can get you pointed in the right direction. Best of luck as you continue implementing JAMS and know that we're always here to help! ### 3. Always prompt and professional support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The best part about JAMS is the support staff. They are very prompt, usually replying to the initial request within 1 hour. They are extremely helpful and friendly. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Still fairly new to JAMS Scheduler, but so far all my questions/issues have been resolved within 2 hours - I have no complaints about the excellent support I have received. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increasing automation. **Official Response from Kevin Vliet:** > Thanks for the great review! Our JAMS Support team strives to be the best in the business, so we're glad you're making full use of their expertise. Good luck as you continue implementing JAMS and please continue reaching out to JAMS Support as other questions come up! ### 4. I am personally using JAMS already about 10 year now and never regret it. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vardan H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The JAMS help me in current company to start consolidation if all batches/etl processes in one place. Make a proper dependencies, having a better alerting, history of executions. The support is the best one, quick responses, resolution, jumping in to remote to help **What do you dislike about JAMS?** I would not put any dislike for now, because we using v6 and there is already v7, which has a lot of new futures and improvements. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** There is multiple application like JAMS, even opensource, but the JAMS was the only who gives the PRICE and FUNCTION in some balanced way. Easy to configure, maintain and implement. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem in current company was ability to manage all job execution, having issue when there was a big maintenance. All those king of issue JAMS resolved, now if we have network and server maintenance - no issues, place job in to maintenance and go. Benefit - one centralized place of everything ### 5. Newbie **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** We are very new to JAMS. Currently we are just in the process of converting all our scheduled jobs from our legacy scheduler into the JAMS scheduler. This process has gone very seamless making our conversion go smooth and quick. We are easily making our deadline due to the fact that JAMS has everything our current scheduler has and so much more. The other thing I like best, and it's probably the most important is the support we have gotten. Your support team is on the ball, ready to answer all our questions. It's helpful to have the chat windows when searching for something. If your support team is unable to assist through the chat, they are quick to call or request a webex to review what we are trying to do. So far there hasn't been an issues we haven't been able to resolve in less then a few hours (max!) **What do you dislike about JAMS?** So far I have to say I really don't have any dislikes. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** I would highly recommend this scheduler. The initial setup time and learning curve was very minimal. We are in the midst of our conversion and have yet to find any problems getting all of our jobs to successfully implement. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have just touch the surface of what this powerful tool has to offer for us. ### 6. JAMS - Excellent JOB Scheduler Automation Experience. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashok R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** JAMS Job automation provides options of Workflow or Setups and both are very impressive in terms of an automation solution/approach they provide. However, here at our organization we have considered Job-Setups combination and its very flexible. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Nothing which we have come across as of now. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** 1. Numerous options for interfacing and the best which we have seen is the SOAP interface with Flexcube Core banking system which is a seamless process. 2. Various other features available in JAMS such as SOA, FTP and SFTP which are utilized extensively to interface with various layers and modules of Flexcube Core Banking product (FCUBS). 3. Support services which is the primary requirement for any customer is excellent. Adding to this, the support team is technically sound and always solution oriented. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle FLEXCUBE (FCUBS) provides comprehensive functional capabilities across multiple lines of business and banking segments. JAMS automation was considered for the following critical functions in terms of scheduling automation solution and proved to be the best fit. 1. SLA driven Overnight batch processes (End of Day and Beginning of Day) to complete complex tasks such as interest and tax computation, incoming and outgoing payments processing, loans amortization and repayments, hand-off files consumption and generation from/to various external systems and interfaces, etc. All these overnight batches are automated and are scheduled using JAMS setup approach. 2. The calendar and time bound automation of outgoing payments and settlement processing files to the clearing houses. 3. Comprehensive solution across scheduled tasks followed by status/health tasks, which would send notifications/alerts to the Flexcube support team. Overall, interfacing JAMS with Flexcube Core Banking product has simplified complex tasks and has brought in stability and robustness to our core banking platform. ### 7. Nothing but first class **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** I can use Power-shell to automate everything and the support has always been prompt and spot on. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Nothing at this time. I always look for new ideas on how to improve automation so I will continue to look for this. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** If you like PowerShell you can customize and automate everything. In my case we even automate the job creation process. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation ### 8. Very useful tool with excellent customer support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The ability to use import custom DLLs. Our company has a lot of very specific scheduled tasks, so we found the integration with our own code to be very useful. Also, very knowledgeable Customer Support. JAMS has a lot of different execution methods and different ways to accomplish tasks, so it's hard at first to understand its full power, but Customer Support and the online support knowledge base always has a good answer **What do you dislike about JAMS?** There are a few limitations in version 6 that we've found, but there is usually a simple workaround available. For example, custom scheduling (which I know is available in version 7). **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Learn all of what it can do, because you will likely find a solution for your job. Lean on customer support, they are incredibly helpful. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of our jobs are file transfers, especially across our corporate domain and SCADA domain. Also, we created a lot of custom jobs that integrate with some of our enterprise applications. JAMS is a nice place to centralize all these scheduled tasks so that certain users can keep tabs on jobs. ### 9. Moving to JAMS from AUTOSYS a no brainer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex T. | DBA, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Enables self service , many features for the price **What do you dislike about JAMS?** I dislike the fact that there is no underlying Job Definition Language. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compared to other schedulers, more easily adopted and use across the business, very easy to install, upgrade, delivery and secure. Upgrades included high value features like v7's web interface. **Official Response from Kevin Vliet:** > Thanks for the awesome review, Alex! Glad you've been able to easily adopt JAMS across the business coming from AutoSys and that you see value in the product. Don't be shy and be sure to stay in touch with JAMS Support if you have any questions as you continue to implement. ### 10. One Ring to Rule Them All! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason F. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** We had a myriad of Windows Scheduled Tasks and SQL Agent Jobs spread about on multiple servers. Just keeping track of what jobs, lived where was a job unto itself. There was also risk associated with these jobs running as the SQL Agent or System account when often that was not the best choice. JAMS delivered as advertised by giving us a single place to create, manage, and monitor all of our scheduled processes! In many cases we were able to leave the functional code in place (i.e. SSIS packages, custom PowerShell scripts, custom executables.) We simply eliminated the SQL jobs and scheduled tasks and replaced them with entries in JAMS. This approach allowed for a quick conversion with greater control over security and an immediate improvement in our ability to monitor jobs execution. Now we're finding many of our new jobs are more easily implemented directly through JAMS using the numerous templates for things like (s)ftp transfers, database maintenance, emailing daily reports, etc. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** This may be an odd "dislike", but I did find JAMS to be too "all-inclusive" in one regard...... We have a non-prod and prod instance of JAMS. The former is used as our develop and test environment. JAMS provides it's own version control for every job and an interface that makes it easy for an authorized user to copy a job from non-prod to prod as a means of deploying to production. So what's not to like about all of that? Once you get used to using the same tools for all of your development, source control, builds, and deployments, it can be a hard habit to break when something like JAMS includes all of that functionality. And while we have tried to make JAMS work using our regular toolset (i.e. Visual Studio, Git, TeamCity, and Octopus Deploy) thus far it has proven more trouble than its worth. Instead we've been working on ways tailor our change control process and continue to use JAMS as designed. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** If you have scheduled tasks and jobs running on more than one server using more than one solution, you should give JAMS a try! **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidation of scheduled jobs and tasks to a single server and a common interface. ### 11. JAMS makes our jobs Easier! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** We can schedule and run many tasks on a repeated basis individually or in a bunch, without having to worry about humane interactions and errors, add dependencies and also notifications, which cuts down the effort by a significant amount. Also the support we get from jAMS is very quick and efficient!We can count on them at any time of the day! **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Mainly Price!! Sometimes some tasks are inconsistent, like triggers , permissions, security etc .,it would be helpful to add more time and date customization , more logging or maybe add a debug logging level if needed. Errors are pretty generic most of the times. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** its easy to schedule jobs based on a certain cadence and dependency as opposed to the traditional scheduler features on the servers. We can also club together any number of them. ### 12. JAMS Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Ease of complete automation using underlying coding for any module that you need to create. Plus, the workflows are pretty cool if you're not a coder. Also, if you are a coder, you can automate almost anything. Gennaro at MVP is a stellar employee and always ready to help. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** This sentence is already in English and does not require translation. 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### 13. Enterprise Scheduling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bob W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Task Automation that can be distributed across the enterprise. A number of self help articles provided by the vendor. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** I have yet to find a problem or dislike for this software. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** JAMS provides a number of resources for implementation like converters and tutorials. JAMS also has a number of different connectors to allow the schedule to connect to multiple systems on one server. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently using the software to schedule jobs to make sure that they are accomplished and track the issues they are not completed. I have found that it saves time by automating processes ### 14. The Product is Well Supported, Capable, and Actively Maintained **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David R. | IT Project Mgr III, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The ease with which copies of jobs (e.g., used as a templates, test/prod reuse, etc.) can be created and managed. Job or Folder Parameters can be used to isolate changes between these instances. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** I sometimes struggle with the interface. Of course, part (all?) of the problem is due to our own reluctance to expend resources to upgrade to current version - we are way behind on 6.3.27. Amazingly, I am successful using their help resources even though our version is so old - their support is tenacious! **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used Jobs, Folders, and Parameters to specify and schedule automation. We have reduced maintenance costs for scheduled jobs. ### 15. JAMS Scheduling and job building **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** JAMS has a comprehensive .NET API that allows the programmatic creation, maintenance, and activation of jobs and job components. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** JAMS has some good basic documentation, but not much past very cursory use of that API from a programmatic viewpoint. Our usage dynamically creates jobs, from information collected from Users, data streams, and other sources. Building that framework required some trial and error to find the proper class attributes and methods to perform those tasks. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are moving a very large health research and clinical care application from a legacy system to Microsoft Windows. Our current system heavily relies on batch processes (built dynamically) to perform the necessary operations to keep that system functional. JAMS has supplied a sufficient rich environment to meet those needs. JAMS has provided more information in scheduling management than the current system since the scheduling is surfaced in its own application rather than part of the operating system. The interface API for creating scheduled jobs is cleaner than in our current system and far richer in the number of options in how those jobs have scheduled. ### 16. Great job scheduler with fantastic support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** JAMS is user friendly, easy to use, yet robust enough to get any job done. Their support team is one of the best I have worked with, with fast responses and a knowledgeable team. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Knowledge base could be updated more frequently and provide more examples. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We utilize JAMS for our entire batch process. This includes transmitting files to loading database tables. **Official Response from Kevin Vliet:** > Thanks for the awesome review! Glad to hear you're getting the most out of JAMS and our JAMS Support team. Thanks as well for your thoughts on updating the knowledge base with more examples. Your voice is heard and I'll be sure to bring this up with our Support Management team. Best of luck as you continue down the path with JAMS and let us know if we can be of any additional assistance. ### 17. Once place to manage DBA proactive and reactive tasks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The converting of SQL Agent jobs into JAMS made me realise that it can replace SQL agent. We deploy standard sql maintenance jobs on each sql instance and use SCOM to alert on failures. We have our own inhouse deployment process with scheduled scripts run from SCOM database server. JAMS removes the need for 1. deploying scripts against all sql instances 2. use one template that all sql instance utilise - code changes done in one place - new jobs automatcially pickup by others 3. scom only needs to monitor JAMS - customised alert templates - one place to check all DBA sql jobs 4. window scheduled tasks - one place to see\manage all customised SQL tasks Once relevant access and setup is done there is no need to use local SQL agent or windows schedule task for any DBA specific task. JAMS to me can be a one all consuming SQL Agent job view. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** I have not yet found anything that I cant do as yet. Roadblocks were removed once I realised JAMS has the capability to try anything within powershell capabilities. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** If you know a little powershell then JAMS is the tool to help you do all that you wanted against alot of machines though the one GUI. The power of one template job that can be utilised by others with just paramters and variables provides satisfaction that this is the right tool, **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We decided to use JAMS as a self service vehicle for support, devs and business users. Majority of our tasks need DBA rights (backup, restores, cloning and environmental scripts) that can be actioned by users with JAMS. We can also introduce vendor applications in the workflow that we are doing with data masking. Another main factor was moving to vendor SQL backups solution instead of old tried and true SQL native backups. JAMS allows us to make vendor API calls and customise jobs that basically will replicate the native backups regime and management. This remove the need for any inhouse dev as maintaining it requires effort that can be spent elsewhere. ### 18. A light-weight scheduler that servers all you need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** JAMS scheduler is a all-rounded scheduler in comparing to other enterprise products. It is light-weight, while supporting many modes of executions, from batch/shell/PowerShell, to direct SSH command and even database-encapsulations like direct SQL executions, SSIS executions and ODBC supports. Yes you're right that those jobs can always be wrapped using scripts, the JAMS developers know your needs and it saves you times, however. You don't have to login to a particular hosts and check the particular script when debugging. You can oversee your workflow with one screen when comparing to some bulky giant products that usually puzzle you. It is the best product to upgrade if you are still using crontabs or Windows schedulers. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Engineering support is responsive. But I believe it helps if their knowledge base can be expanded for users' self-service. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduled jobs that are zero-fault-tolerant. ### 19. JAMS Scheduler **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** JAMS is incredibly easy to use once configured, and allows for several levels of access and security so we can have different teams with different access to the application. The support from Help Systems is also very, very good. We've had several speed bumps getting things automated and even a system failure or two, and support has always been able to remedy the situation quickly. JAMS can automate just about any application you can think of. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** This is on us for our rollout procedures, but having licensing tied to the machine name vs some other characteristic has made it difficult for us when we moved a server from testing/development into a production server. The machine name would have changed, but because the license is tied to the name, it made things difficult and the result would be a machine in production with a name that implied it is a dev server. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Price out the competition, and then price out how much it would cost to automate everything in-house without a scheduler like JAMS. For a small team with limited resources, I can't think of a product that handles the level of automation that JAMS does for the price. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We moved our core business application from a mainframe where everything ran in one place and was easy to automate to a collection of Windows servers where jobs were now spread across several machines and databases. JAMS "speaks" the same language as our mainframe did so migrating jobs over was easy, and by using JAMS, we continue to have one place where all jobs can be scheduled and monitored. Without JAMS, transitioning to the Windows port of our application and keeping all of our automated jobs would be a nightmare. Using JAMS, we've not only moved over hundreds of jobs but have been able to add hundreds more and automated processes that would have been impossible on the mainframe version of the application. We can also manage all of this with a very small team. ### 20. Easy to install & to use, with a support always available & attentive to help you **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SOPHIE S. | SAP Technical consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** We chose JAMS to replace our scheduler, to plan a lot of jobs in SAP & LInux. JAMS team supported me to migrate them, with preparing a part of this, and helping on all issues or questions I had. We were very efficient because JAMS support always answered me when I needed it, to explain me how it works. JAMS is running now in production since 1,5 months, without issue or nothing we can't solve immediatly **What do you dislike about JAMS?** There's some little bugs in import/export workflow which need to be corrected in new versions, because as JAMS is offering a lot of capabilities during development, and they are lost during the export, to deploy in productive environment It's disappointing because it works if you developped it in the final environment but you lost it during deployment **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** JAMS jobs are easy to develop, to submit and to monitor each day with mail alerts, with auto cancelling & auto resubmission of jobs Special scheduling (once a month on a precise date) can be put it in place through parameters & elements. Our own execution methods can be developped to be used as templates for company jobs **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our scheduler costs were decreased compared to the last scheduler, and with JAMS, we free ourselves from SAP, without logical links between JAMS & SAP The maintenance procedure to stop & start processes are now easier ### 21. JAMS helped us simplify our scheduling needs! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The support of MVPSI has been my favorite feature, they are extremely helpful and knowledgeable. I also enjoy the projected schedule feature as it allows us to accurately forecast certain maintenance activities arounded important scheduling times. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** I feel updates are required more often than I would like but its a minor issue. The Web UI does not seem to perform as well as the thick client and most of our users prefer the web client. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Determine how many concurrent jobs you will need running as that will play a big role in your licensing cost. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have centralized all of our scheduled/batch processing tasks across 150+ servers into one server and a handful of agents. We have completely rebuilt our batch processing systems with JAMS in mind as the backbone of our new back-end applications. ### 22. Easy Scheduling tool, especially for the non-programmer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wayne W. V. | Principal Higher Education Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Easy to use, very flexible, and cost effective. When we switched from Appwrox we were able to create the same chains in easier to understand, and faster to create Workflows. The new Banner Procedure Execution method is a MAJOR time saver! Being able to load Banner parameters makes building Banner job sub jobs easy and error free! **What do you dislike about JAMS?** That the new Banner Procedure wasn't available during our implementation! Also, sometimes PowerShell commands we test in native Powershell doesn't work the same way when run from JAMS. We always have to do a little tweaking, but that could be that I'm a novice at PowerShell. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** The newest release is more a full number release not a point release. It was harder to implement across instances than previous releases. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've streamlined many, many process with JAMS in such a short time. At the start of the implementation we decided that we were only going to use JAMS for scheduled tasks, not one-off runs. However, it's so easy to use, we've started building jobs intended to run once a term or once a year. ### 23. JAMS--it just works **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Smoothly handles impersonation; allows for powershell, old style batch, and other Windows scripting languages; has cli for job manipulation; provides alerts on job failure. Scheduler supports node failover and queue mechanism can support failover in the event of an agent/worker node failure. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** lacks a panic button (stop all work immediately); licenses per agent so it would be expensive as a compute farm grid management tool. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** When we migrated from an OpenVMS cluster to a Windows domain JAMS allowed us to schedule across both systems during the transition, and under Windows to support complex job dependencies. Continues to allow us to run many maintenance tasks with minimal operator/programmer supervision. Complements the system health monitor--JAMS can run jobs to check on the health of the monitor, and vice-versa. ### 24. JAMS is the best job scheduling software for complex batch process and scheduling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Technical assistance, JAMS support staff always responds promptly. Easy to customize Jobs to meet business requirements. Easy to deal with complex job dependencies and scheduling different ways. Allows custom execution methods. Secured File Transfer setup is easy to transfer files to third parties. Alerts and Email notifications setup is easy in JAMS. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** There isn’t much that I dislike in JAMS but there are few pain points. Current we use JAMS v6, maybe version 7 has more improvements. In the Jobs import process, editing the exported XML file is a bit time taking procedure in tracing all the necessary changes and all dependencies. I feel there should be an internal mechanism in the import process to trace all dependencies in the order and create those dependency jobs first and then go in the order. Sometimes we need to delete the jobs in bulk in our testing, here jobs bulk delete from folder feature is helpful if JAMS has the one, In certain cases JAMS doesn't have the ability to capture Job exception details unless customized with PowerShell exception handling. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** JAMS Enterprise Job Scheduler has detailed documentation. JAMS support staff are nice and helpful. So, no worries to try for new features in JAMS or for any customization, I believe you always get adequate support from JAMS staff. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Earlier in our batch process Jobs Predecessors and Successors scenarios was challenging, with JAMS we could make it simple using Job dependencies feature. Scheduling issues solved with JAMS auto-scheduling features. Before JAMS customizing was complex to execute SQL scripts and file transfers, now with JAMS customization become easy with PowerShell scripts and custom execution methods. Before JAMS, proper alerts and Email notification system was lacking in our Batch process. Now alerts and email notifications setup is very simple in JAMS and these features allow support resource act quick for any night batch issues. ### 25. JAMS Enterprise Job Scheduler **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leo F. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** I like having one access point to all of our servers and batch queues. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Interactive Services that could be viewed on Server 2012 no longer can be viewed on Server 2016. I understand that this is a Windows Issue, but it would be helpful if there was an alternative. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** One access point to all of our servers and batch queues. ### 26. Gives an overview of all our batch jobs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincent K. | Data Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** JAMS gives us the ability to see at a glance all our jobs and their dependencies. We also like the ability to add dependencies to our workflows and automate things like file renaming, etc **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The client really needs an update, it is not exactly the most intuitive things to use when creating jobs. Also, the online help could really be improved. Fortunately JAMS Support has been extremely responsive in answering our questions Unfortunately, I'm docking a point for the software as it seems that QA has not been the most robust lately. The last 2 releases have had what I'd consider to be somewhat buggy, requiring workarounds, or, in some cases, us to install **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Batch scheduling of our jobs. We have been able to track things within the JAMS scheduler where previously we had to keep track of them in spreadsheets ### 27. JAMS Enterprise Job Scheduler: Great Product. Great Tool. Great Support. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Randall R. | Senior Lead - Workload Automation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** JAMS is very easy to use. JAMS is very reliable. JAMS Support is top-notch. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The ability to gather historical info across timelines for multiple jobs and workflows could be improved. Reporting takes some getting used to and more canned reports would be beneficial. It would be nice to have some way to document workflow design and search for jobs within workflows with more ease. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** JAMS runs most of the automated processes here at Red Lobster. It is a very powerful tool. We run over 20K jobs per day, and our servers remain under-utilized. In other words, the system is incredibly robust and we have not seen any limit to its potential. You are only limited by your imagination when it comes to automation with JAMS. ### 28. Great Product and Fantastic Customer Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pei W. | Senior Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Our company has been using JAMS across multiple projects since 2015. Throughout the years, the product has matured and has helped us automate all of our processes. The favorite component of JAMS that I enjoy using are the workflows. Also, JAMS support provides excellent customer support who has assisted me with over 200 resolved tickets, almost all of them were training questions. I particularly enjoy working with their team of engineers through web conference calls. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The new version of JAMS V7, has some features that were removed from V6 that I wish would come back in the near future. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Incorporate some v6 functionality into V7. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to run over automated 200 processes, have four development environments, and we use the JAMS to automate all of our deployment and maintenance processes as well. ### 29. JAMS Enterprise Job Scheduler Is a Great Enterprise Tool for Manage Different Tasks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** JAMS Scheduler is a great central place for our all DBA related automation tasks, integrated with application servers. It simplifies the maintenance and monitoring, reduces the operation cost. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** JAMS has many functions and we only used part of them. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Central place to schedule and monitor multi tasks from different platform. ### 30. Experience with JAMS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** It is centralized scheduler which makes our job very helpful. Central management with ACL and folder security makes it very much manageable with different level of audience. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Till v6.5 it was good experience with JAMS, but when upgraded our lower environment to v7.xx then the problem started, we are working with JAMS as their QA to their code. lots of bugs in v7 series. Not complaining about JAMS Support but its newer software comes with more bugs. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** This is nice product and easy to manage with security, supports multiple scripting languages for jobs. Integration with other software using API is really useful to customize your experience with scheduling jobs and can enable auditing on it. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** bunch of problems like time zone issue, job lagging issues; we can not do automatic installation of JAMS with all configs. and many more issue. There are many benefits as well with JAMS solution. Benefits: Central managment, security, logging, multi scripting/programming language support. ### 31. So simple, a caveman can do it. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Over the years I have had the opportunity to work with multiple automation tools. JAMS is by far the easiest to date to implement and work with. The interface is well thought out and provides us with many options to carry out the remote tasks we are trying to automate. JAMS support is responsive and extremely helpful. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** I really don't know if the qualifies as a dislike, but to be honest I had real reservations at first about recommending this software solution to my organization **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** The JAMS automation software truly is amazing and well worth the investment. I have worked with at least two of the "Big Name" solutions as well as a few of the open-source tools out there and JAMS really does put them to shame. When I download the trial software, I had it installed and running a simple scheduled task in less than 30 min. Don't let the simplicity fool you, this tool is a complete solution and has integration with most of the major ERP solutions on the market. We deployed JAMS on-prem and have the ability to run 1000 scheduled jobs a day. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using JAMS to automate our reoccurring business processes to streamline the business as part of our EA practice. The goal here is to improve service to the business, document the process, and improve consistency. ### 32. Straight-forward, fast, and loaded with features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** KHOA N. | SOFTWARE ENGINEER, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Ease of development and many features, such as triggers, smart dates and scheduling, ease of defining variables and parameters. Ability to define calendars and holidays. Ability to query the database for queries and parameters. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The Gant chart is not useful at all. JAMS powershell documentation is very poor. It's hard to read the documentation and arrive at the answer. At a certain point, contacting JAMS support is a necessity. I wish JAMS cmdlet documentation was as good as .NET Framework's. JAMS db data model is not at all or is not well-documented. No easy way to visualize relationships between jobs and workflows. No easy way to display exception messages, unless it's a powershell, captured from jobs. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Contact JAMS support whenever you need help, they are really good. Microsoft Workflow tool is not very good, recommend that you not use it for advance workflow management. There are far better ETL tools that can integrate with JAMS. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic scheduling and scheduling of workflows with dependencies. Advance scheduling of dates in terms of holidays and weekends. ### 33. Installation and training was on target. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard V. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The options to schedule a wide variety of different job types. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The only dislike was FTP options but they are much better in v 7. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the problem of multiple schedulers like cron and SQL now use just one scheduler JAMS. ### 34. Great tool for broad variety of automation tasks **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David W. | ITS/AS-6 - Information Services GIS Lead, Government Administration, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The fact that you have a variety of script/command structures you can use to define jobs. We have favored a mix of old-school DOS command-lines and Powershell scripting with logic built in. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** We saw a pretty big change in the most recent major update to the software which changes the concept of how jobs/setups were conceptualized to now being jobs and sequences which while making sense; the method of building them has been more of a struggle. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** JAMS has allowed us to provide more proactive response to customers by having jobs that can check if a customer has requested a job and push it through the pipeline; this has allowed us to take tasks from hourly using the Microsoft Scheduler to every 5 minutes with less overhead. ### 35. JAMS used by RAC for job scheduling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter F. | Computer Analyst / Programmer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Jobs are easy to set-up, manage and monitor. JAMS features are reasonably comprehensive and can be expanded upon by the use of PowerShell. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** There are some minor inconsistencies between PC client and Web client. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Primarily using JAMS for scheduling file transfer jobs and reporting. The benefits being jobs will be controlled from one place with business units able to manage their own jobs. Our previous scheduling applications were only able to be managed by a few key superusers. ### 36. Centralized scheduling of Tasks **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Function range, ease of use, centralized view of all existing tasks. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** nothing so far, solution and support are great **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Stable, easy to use and thus high sophisticated solution to centralize tasks in the enterprise. We use powershell, SAS and SPSS scripts as well as Windows cmd. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralized management and overview of all tasks, each department has access to their tasks only, no need to access the scheduling server (Windows Tasks) directly. High sophisticated reporting. ### 37. Very versatile scheduler **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pete C. | SQL Server DBA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** How the system can be customised to run almost any batch process. Technical support is excellent. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The initial release of JAMS 7 was a bit buggy, but now desperately trying to schedule an upgrade to get the new features. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralised logging and management of all batch processing. ### 38. JAMS has saved us time and their support is GREAT! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher L. | Sr. Systems Analyst, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** We like the fact that repetitive jobs that used to take hours of time for setup each and every day can now be set up in JAMS and run daily, thus saving many hours of work that can now be devoted to other, more important purposes. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The only downside, and this is on us, not them, is that if you don't set it up properly, or no one is keeping a daily eye on it, things can happen and jobs not fully run (as happened with us recently) and nobody is aware! **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Do your homework and know what you want. Get consensus and have a project plan in place to implement. It will make things go much smoother. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used JAMS to schedule daily jobs, file transfers, and combinations of jobs and transfers to automatically update files, create output that can then be transported to other servers. ### 39. JAMS completely changed the way we worked **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** I like the fact that it centralised all of our jobs across different enterprise applications and sources in one place. Audit questions became simple with a total change control structure in place And job creation became much simpler using basic generic jobs which we could re-use over and over again. It also makes it easy to segregate our production environment from Developers Their support is also amazing **What do you dislike about JAMS?** There isn't any cloud automation available yet **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Get on it I have used Tidal and DollarUniverse and this is by far the best **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We run all our SQL, Powershell, SFTP and Trading system automation using this tool ### 40. Excellent support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** I like the online chat feature that allows me to get quick and accurate answers to very technical questions. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Documentation could be better, but having great online support makes up for it. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Its a very powerful tool that is flexible enough to do anything we need. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using JAMS for enterprise scheduling. Every process that can be setup to be automated goes though JAMS. From running batch jobs to transferring files. ### 41. Needed an Enterprise Scheduler for better control. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** On top of the software being able to control the many job dependencies we have, the response time of their support staff has been truly amazing when entering support tickets. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Took a bit to fine tune the amount of history records we wanted to keep per job but once we engaged the support team they helped point us in the right direction. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to control dependencies between different jobs, processes and platforms. This has allowed us to save a good deal of manual work time when an error would occur. ### 42. Surpassed expectations, a real bargain **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William S. | Sr. Systems Database Administrator, Retail, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Jams has been able to automate, schedule. and manage everything we have thrown at it. We have not only upgraded the processes that we originally intended to connect via jams, but we realized the versatility and power of the tool to control and execute around 3000 jobs per day. Key to our success was the JAMS support team, which provided us the best level of customer service I have ever experienced. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The real power of the system wasn't readily apparent from the UI. A lot of things ended up working better via API or script controlled by JAMS that directly in the JAMS interface **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Jams controls integrations and processing on multiple separate yet interdependent systems. Jams manages SFTP tasks, responds to business user file drops and sharepoint updates, monitors manufacturing systems, and manages execution of most of the integrations at our company. ### 43. Simple and Effective Tool for Automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Delli M. | IT SysDesign&Implement Sr.Rep , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Simple and Effective Tool to Reduce Manual Process which will help to automate all the application tasks Power shell, CMD, Shell Script....etc. Single place to interact all the application modules. JAMS support team always provides a great support :) **What do you dislike about JAMS?** JAMS Client Workflow properties options are missing and difficult to re-enable the option. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** JAMS is used for Daily activity in our organization to schedule BI reports/monitor the application/service recycle. Before JAMS: for data export we use to spend more time which use to do manually it will take around 4 to 5 Hr. Current Scenario with JAMS: Data export completed automatically in 15 to 30 Min. ### 44. Works, although the UI needs more work **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dimitrios A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The installation procedure is relatively simple Working with it is (mostly) intuitive The support team is hands down AMAZING **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The UI feels buggy, it definitely needs more work Working with parameters and variables (esp. when using recursion) is counter-intuitive and could be improved **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** reach out to the support team for any problem you have, they're really good. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's our main task scheduling system. We migrated from an older system and have seen the logging capabilities and technology reach vastly improved. ### 45. JAMS Scheduling Server -The most efficient way to schedule Batch jobs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The best thing about this tool is the easy to use interface that it offers. It is so easy to understand usability and functionality. It also offers the Dashboard and analytics feature which help us in continuous improvement and reporting **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The application has to be installed on Machine it will be much better if it is a web-based application **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Batch Automation Error Reporting Benefits: Reporting Monitoring ### 46. Simplify your automation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** It is very quick and easy to deploy a task, you just need a few clicks. It has all the main events needed to properly define each task even in a global environment that works across multiple time frames and servers and has in build integrations with many tools. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** There is little to no documentation of the architecture of the database. Jams 7 database is easier to deduce than JAMS 6 but documentation is a must. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using many different tools mainly for ETL purposes and reporting we can have everything centralized in JAMS tool having also the ability to monitor everything and intermediately have an alert if something has failed. The statistics we can get both from the database or the reporting tool included in JAMS provides us with interesting number for our KPIs. ### 47. Review of JAMS Job Scheduler **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** What is most helpful about JAMS is that whatever you can run in a command window, you can schedule and supply parameters needed. You also get a log of all messages sent to the command window from the program if it sends messages. using Power shell you can wright scripts directly into the Jams Job Source window and run. you can set up new execution methods for running scripts that run in another runtime language. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** I have not found anything I really dislike about JAMS. I've lost some of the colorizing Themes That I liked in earlier versions. I was better able to distinguish which environment I was working in by the color. Now the themes are close variations to a 'White' or 'Dark' Theme, hard to get 3 distinct shades out of it and still be readable. **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Support was fantastic, they have helped me in a timely manner, even for general questions needed by our IT department. they have helped in setting up new execution methods, to run SQL queries, GoAnywhere Projects, Sarina Release Automation, and Powershell scripts. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling End of Day Processes for a order management Suite that did not come with a Scheduler or used Windows Scheduler. We get notifications based on how the individual jobs run so we can take action as a fault occures. integration / sending files to Report 2 Web, submitting files and jobs to process the files on an AS400, Submitting Go Anywhere projects for transferring files in / out of the company. ### 48. Give the control back to users **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christophe L. | Performance manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2019 **What do you like best about JAMS?** The possibility of cutting jobs into reusable unitary steps is a great time saving. Resuming a job at the step where he stopped, without having to to re-execute it in its entirety. The support perfectly masters the product. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** The documentation is the poor relation of the solution, fortunately, the support is present. **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can group all our jobs in a control tower and give back to our users, unlike what we did until now with sql jobs or windows tasks scheduler. ### 49. Fast Service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Natasha F. | Project Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** Great support team, Fast responses, friendly staff **What do you dislike about JAMS?** I am still learning how to use this so i do not have any dislikes **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Thorough testing **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of import, great support, great documentation ### 50. Excellent support for JAMS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nisha M. | Senior Systems Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2020 **What do you like best about JAMS?** JAMs can pretty much schedule anything and everything but what i love about JAMs is the customer support. I dont hesitate to take up new projects as I know that I can always rely on the support team to help me get my tasks done. **What do you dislike about JAMS?** Haven't found anything that I do not like so far **Recommendations to others considering JAMS:** Go for it! **What problems is JAMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are automating our processes and reducing human intervention in our workflows ## JAMS Discussions - [How to hold schedules of all the jobs ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/16143-how-to-hold-schedules-of-all-the-jobs) - 2 comments, 2 upvotes - [How do I integrate with other software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/16123-how-do-i-integrate-with-other-software) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes - [We’re a Linux shop. 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