We performed a comparison between AppWorx Workload Automation and Fortra's JAMS based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: AppWorx Workload Automation is highly regarded for its ease of use and consistent performance. Fortra's JAMS stands out for its ability to track job dependencies, automate tasks, and provide extensive monitoring and control functions.
AppWorx Workload Automation has the potential to enhance its API integration and scalability. Fortra's JAMS requires improvements in various areas such as client interface, search capability, training resources, exception handling, browser version, custom execution methods, reporting, and documentation.
Service and Support: Customers have rated the technical support of AppWorx Workload Automation highly, while Fortra's JAMS has a responsive and knowledgeable support team.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for AppWorx Workload Automation may seem complex to those unfamiliar with the system, however, it is generally considered relatively easy and straightforward. It requires several months to complete and the involvement of an administrator with access. Fortra's JAMS has a straightforward and easy setup process. Users found it quick, simple, and intuitive, with some mentioning that it did not require formal training.
Pricing: AppWorx Workload Automation has a costly setup determined by the number of systems used, while Fortra's JAMS has a fair and reasonable pricing structure with an initial cost in the first year and an annual maintenance cost. Users consider JAMS to be affordable and a worthwhile investment.
ROI: Users have found that Fortra's JAMS delivers a considerable return on investment, resulting in time savings, enhanced productivity, and cost-effectiveness. It instills confidence in its ability to generate positive ROI. No ROI information was mentioned for AppWorx.
Comparison Results: Fortra's JAMS is highly favored over AppWorx Workload Automation. Users appreciate JAMS' ability to handle job dependencies, its automation capabilities, and the valuable features it provides, such as File Watchers and warnings for job issues. Users also find JAMS' pricing to be fair and reasonable compared to other solutions, resulting in a significant return on investment.
"It is an object-based approach to task and process design in conjunction with conditional logic and event-based scheduling actions, which enables a build once/use often design methodology to be employed."
"It is really a robust product."
"The interface is good."
"We have a lot of nightly jobs that need to be run. Therefore, we perform a lot of calculations and processes during nighttime hours."
"The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better."
"Scheduling is a good feature."
"The solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it."
"The automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server."
"The feature or capability to import a job is most valuable. We can import an existing job from different platforms, and all the configurations get migrated as well without modifying the code, job schedule, etc."
"JAMS has improved my organization by taking a myriad of manual processes and allowing us to automate them. It enables our folks to focus more on tasks that require their human intelligence and their creativity and less on just mundane tasks. It increases efficiency, accuracy, and consistency."
"I like how you can add new execution methods on the fly. It isn't overly complex to add Python script support to an execution method in the JAMS system. The scheduling is excellent. You can schedule a maintenance window and take that resource unit out of everything. It halts all of the jobs."
"Being able to create a series of chained jobs, which are basically linked jobs is valuable."
"The most valuable feature for us is that it's DR-ready. With respect to disaster recovery, it has the built-in capability for failover to our DR site. If all of the required ports are open, it can be done seamlessly."
"We also use the solution’s Interactive Agents. If we need to push something to our dealer portal, we can just drop a file in a folder and it goes. Running interactive tasks helps me users focus on business processes since I don’t have to take care of running the jobs manually."
"The scheduling and execution of jobs are the most valuable features. The scheduling is important because if there is a task we want to execute at 4:00 AM, there's no way we will have someone who can manually run the job. In addition, we execute 100 to 200 jobs per day, and manual intervention is not an option."
"The fact that we no longer need to use Excel spreadsheets is huge. Before JAMS, every group was keeping track of their own batch jobs. Nobody really knew what the other jobs were. So, if jobs failed, other groups wouldn't necessarily know. With JAMS, everything is done through a single scheduler. You can choose who to notify."
"As a general process automation and integration tool, it has been superseded by other offerings, notably the Workload Automation suite."
"Reporting, forecasting and intelligence could be improved."
"It is difficult to integrate with the Active Directory (AD)."
"The graphical interface is pretty cool but not the best so it could use some improvement."
"It is not really scaling per say because they are not putting much into it. They are trying to push their new product."
"The internal security model can be complex when configuring multiple user groups."
"We are looking for additional features that would allow us to call APIs and integrate the product with other tools more effectively."
"It has been a deprecated product, because it is so old. There has been a couple of new solutions that are a little more advanced."
"The documentation is not super... It's not as quick and slick as I'd like it to be."
"I would like a simple web interface that I could give to my team to go in and kill jobs or see why jobs died so that we don't have to drill down deeper into the application and know everything about it. It would be good to have a really clean web engine that would say here are the jobs running. We can then click to see the time running and whether any of them fails and other similar things. I know they have one, but it's not very simplistic."
"The product does not allow the users to cut and paste the job names from the screen."
"It does validations when you try to delete an object and if there are any dependencies in place, the deletion process will not proceed... there is no information provided as to what it was that caused the validation to fail... it's quite a tedious process to find which object is getting in the way."
"The ACL or access permission area needs to be improved. When it comes to defining and providing security permissions, it's a bit confusing if you are new to JAMS. JAMS needs to improve the features for security access or permissions."
"The search capability needs to be improved because when we try to search for a job, it's hard to do."
"When looking at a folder in JAMS with many jobs, it would be good to have better information in the list display of what's inside those jobs. We get some information, but other important details are missing."
"It is important to receive notifications if a charged job fails and SQL is halted. JAMS does not provide halted notifications by default, which is a critical feature that needs to be added."
AppWorx Workload Automation is ranked 17th in Workload Automation with 7 reviews while Fortra's JAMS is ranked 5th in Workload Automation with 27 reviews. AppWorx Workload Automation is rated 8.0, while Fortra's JAMS is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of AppWorx Workload Automation writes "The scheduling tool and finance module are valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortra's JAMS writes "We can scale up our organization's scheduling and automation without having to add staff to the department". AppWorx Workload Automation is most compared with Automic Workload Automation, Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Automic Automation Intelligence and Stonebranch, whereas Fortra's JAMS is most compared with Control-M, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation, Redwood RunMyJobs and VisualCron. See our AppWorx Workload Automation vs. Fortra's JAMS report.
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