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AppWorx Workload Automation vs Spot by Flexera comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.5
JAMS Scheduler enhances ROI by automating tasks, saving time, improving efficiency, and boosting productivity despite licensing cost concerns.
Sentiment score
8.2
AppWorx Workload Automation improves efficiency and ROI by enhancing automation, monitoring, and reducing job creation and management times.
Sentiment score
7.9
Spot by Flexera cut compute costs by 75%, saved over 500,000 euros annually, and improved flexibility and operations.
The design of JAMS makes it very easy to copy jobs and make minimal changes while ensuring functionality.
Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The cost has definitely gone up tremendously.
Principal Data Base And Infrastructure Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
It saved IT time by 50%.
Vice President, Information Technology at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The product manages workloads efficiently, allowing our operators to learn and operate it quickly, which underscores its value to our business.
IT Infrastructure Manager with 10,001+ employees
It has significantly reduced the time required for tasks that were previously manual, such as running batch and online jobs and report submissions.
Senior Developer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
By using Spot by Flexera across a year, we were able to save more than 500,000 euros.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Our technology predicts demand, selects the cheapest instance mix, sizes the workloads appropriately, and scales it automatically based on policy, resulting in significant savings by reducing manual work and enhancing our flexibility, which has helped accelerate our deployments.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I cannot share the exact number, but I can share the figure that my EC2 and EKS compute cost reduced by around 65 to 75% with Spot.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.3
JAMS Scheduler's customer service is highly rated for expertise, quick response, and effective problem-solving despite occasional documentation gaps.
Sentiment score
7.0
AppWorx support is praised for efficiency and availability, though experiences vary due to agreements and third-party complexities.
Sentiment score
8.4
Spot by Flexera provides responsive and effective customer service, receiving high ratings for their excellent technical support.
The customer support for JAMS Scheduler is amazing, superhero quality.
Student Server Support / Liasion at Hamilton County ESC
Their response is prompt, exemplifying how support should be.
Manager of Reliability Engineering and Security Operations at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
They are very quick to respond depending on the issue's severity.
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Their current support level is really good.
IT Infrastructure Manager with 10,001+ employees
Technical support is managed by third parties now, which complicates direct customer assistance from Broadcom.
Senior Developer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would rate the customer support a nine out of ten.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not have to use it many times, but the few times that we did use it, it was very fast and very useful.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.1
JAMS Scheduler scales well, handling thousands of daily jobs, though licensing and infrastructure can affect high-volume performance.
Sentiment score
6.7
AppWorx Workload Automation's scalability receives mixed reviews, with outdated tech challenges yet some users report satisfactory performance.
Sentiment score
7.6
Spot by Flexera is scalable, adaptable, and open-source, effectively managing AWS expansions and connecting diverse data sources.
Those are situations where it has helped us to just say that we don't really care in which tech stack that we are in, whether it's latest or not, but the forward as well as the backward compatibility has been of great help.
Principal Data Base And Infrastructure Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
As the number of scheduled jobs increased, we can manage multiple schedules, dependencies, and workflows centrally.
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
We might be underutilizing it, but as more jobs require processing, additional servers would be necessary.
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is also a very easy tool to connect to different data sources and different servers since it is open source.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Spot's scalability is quite good, and it can be expanded to multiple environments.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
JAMS Scheduler is praised for stability, reliability, minimal disruptions, and effective workload management, meeting enterprise scheduling needs efficiently.
Sentiment score
8.6
AppWorx Workload Automation is highly stable and reliable, with users confident in its performance despite minor connectivity issues.
Sentiment score
6.3
Spot by Flexera is stable but faces data update delays, requiring manual IT asset corrections and user-reported server discrepancies.
We experience periods of major incidents annually due to capacity constraints, which result in job failures.
Manager of Reliability Engineering and Security Operations at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
When issues occur, the monitoring and execution logs make it easier to identify and recover from them.
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
JAMS Scheduler is as stable as a rock.
Student Server Support / Liasion at Hamilton County ESC
We have not faced any real issues, and it’s the main reason why we haven't enabled a lot of the redundancy features.
IT Infrastructure Manager with 10,001+ employees
In Spot by Flexera, we could see both computers, the old and the new one, but the system was not recognizing that the old one was no longer being used.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

JAMS Scheduler requires a more intuitive UI, improved documentation, enhanced integration, and a robust reporting system to boost efficiency.
AppWorx Workload Automation needs improvements in UI, security, scalability, AI, mainframe support, and simplified licensing.
Spot by Flexera could improve through storage cost optimization, better integrations, enhanced UI guidance, timely updates, and Kubernetes insights.
Another area for improvement would be the addition of source control for jobs internally, as this feature would solve several problems for me.
Manager of Reliability Engineering and Security Operations at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
A major improvement would be the integration of AI to help us accomplish various tasks.
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
If around 5,000 or more jobs run at a time, JAMS slows down, and we have to wait around five to 10 minutes or restart JAMS scheduler services.
ETL Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
AppWorx Workload Automation does not support mainframe environments.
IT Infrastructure Manager with 10,001+ employees
Licensing fees have increased as they charge based on executions rather than user agents, causing higher costs.
Senior Developer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Continuously making advancements based on customer feedback.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Spot could be improved by adding features that help identify data to optimize storage costs by detecting datasets within our environment based on criteria such as age and usage.
AVP DevOps and Product Support at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
More guided onboarding would help teams adopt advanced features faster.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
 

Setup Cost

JAMS Scheduler provides a flexible, cost-effective pricing model with competitive value compared to Control-M and Tivoli for enterprises.
AppWorx Workload Automation pricing receives mixed reviews, with concerns about high costs impacting license renewals and cost structure changes.
Users praise Spot by Flexera's pricing for its competitiveness and convenience, rating it highly against market alternatives.
The price is fair considering the functionality and importance of the tool, although the increase did unsettle our management.
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
My thoughts on the pricing of JAMS are that I won't say it is cheap, but it is cost-efficient, and that should be acceptable.
Consultant at HCLSoftware
The pricing and licensing were fair.
Database Analyst / Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Licensing now depends on execution counts as opposed to agent counts, leading to increased costs.
Senior Developer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The licensing is fair and reasonable for what the product offers.
IT Infrastructure Manager with 10,001+ employees
The pricing is reasonable and convenient, and the value it offers is completely in line with what I am spending.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
I was aware of different pricing, setup costs, and licensing across the company.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

JAMS Scheduler streamlines cross-platform automation with flexible job scheduling, robust alerts, seamless .NET integration, and centralized management.
AppWorx Workload Automation offers reliable and flexible scheduling, AI integration, and user-friendly interface for efficient workload management.
Spot by Flexera optimizes cloud costs, manages resources efficiently, and integrates with AWS, improving scalability and decision-making with AI.
JAMS has positively impacted my organization by completely removing the headache of scheduling jobs, not just for the organization but for all internal operations teams need.
Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
JAMS helps centralize the management of jobs on all of my platforms and applications, which has helped my organization significantly.
Consultant at HCLSoftware
By using JAMS, we have gained a lot more efficiencies in terms of all of those to streamline it, and there is no necessary need for having an overnight engineer just keeping an eye on all of this.
Principal Data Base And Infrastructure Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
AppWorx Workload Automation's simplicity and powerful functionality are its most valuable features for us.
IT Infrastructure Manager with 10,001+ employees
Atomic Applications Manager is user-friendly and accommodates around 100 users who can monitor and run their jobs effectively.
Senior Developer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Spot's automated cost optimization works by continuously analyzing the workload and applying policies to minimize cloud spend without sacrificing performance.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The fact that it can mix dozens of instance families dynamically is something which the AWS native autoscalers simply cannot do.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Spot helps us detect such changes within AWS at least one hour prior, allowing us to have a mitigation plan in place and host other servers within the same setup to avoid impacting the application.
AVP DevOps and Product Support at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

JAMS Scheduler
Sponsored
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Workload Automation (3rd)
AppWorx Workload Automation
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Workload Automation (15th)
Spot by Flexera
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (17th), Server Virtualization Software (14th), Cloud Operations Analytics (1st), Cloud Analytics (3rd), Compute Service (10th), Containers as a Service (CaaS) (3rd), Cloud Cost Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Workload Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AppWorx Workload Automation2.7%
Control-M10.2%
AutoSys Workload Automation6.5%
Other80.6%
Workload Automation
Cloud Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Spot by Flexera15.9%
IBM Turbonomic21.8%
Densify15.7%
Other46.599999999999994%
Cloud Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2890770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Centralized scheduling has improved automation and reduces manual monitoring for complex workflows
The best features JAMS Scheduler offers are centralized job scheduling, dependency management, and monitoring. I also appreciate the alerts and retry options because they help us handle failures without constantly checking jobs manually. Centralized scheduling makes it easier to manage all our jobs from one place instead of maintaining multiple schedulers or scripts. Dependency management is especially useful for chaining workflows because JAMS Scheduler can automatically trigger the next job only when the required previous step completes successfully. Another useful feature is the monitoring and alerting. If a scheduled job fails or runs longer than expected, we can quickly identify it and take action, which is particularly helpful for production support and reducing manual monitoring. JAMS Scheduler has helped quite a bit with identifying common job failures, missed schedules, dependency issues, and execution errors. The alerts and job history make it easier to identify the failure point and take corrective action without manually checking every workflow. JAMS Scheduler's code-driven automation has been useful for handling more complex scheduling logic and workflows that go beyond simple time-based triggers. It is important for us because we can combine scripts, dependencies, conditions, and parameters to support different production scenarios without creating too much manual intervention.
Srikanth Gubba - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Automation boosts efficiency with a user-friendly interface
Currently, I have switched to negotiating through third-party vendors for licensing, which has made it more expensive. Broadcom should address this by dealing directly with customers again. Licensing fees have increased as they charge based on executions rather than user agents, causing higher costs. Technical support also involves third-party interactions, complicating direct assistance from Broadcom.
Bruna Müller - PeerSpot reviewer
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Centralized asset data has transformed how we manage licenses and make cost-saving decisions
One problem that we faced using Spot by Flexera is that in certain servers, the data was not being updated correctly, and we had a certain delay. For example, someone was using a computer, and then this user received a new one. In Spot by Flexera, we could see both computers, the old and the new one, but the system was not recognizing that the old one was no longer being used. We had a couple of IT assets that were not being used, and we had this information in our internal servers, but Spot by Flexera was not able to update on time. We had to fix this information manually.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Construction Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
14%
University
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise29
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JAMS?
I was not really involved in the pricing, setup cost, and licensing at that level. I am more involved in the technica...
What needs improvement with JAMS?
One area of improvement I see for JAMS Scheduler is making the user interface more intuitive for new users, especiall...
What is your primary use case for JAMS?
My main use case for JAMS Scheduler is scheduling daily RPA jobs, such as running an invoice process automation after...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppWorx Workload Automation?
Compared to other tools, it is now expensive. Licensing now depends on execution counts as opposed to agent counts, l...
What needs improvement with AppWorx Workload Automation?
Currently, I have switched to negotiating through third-party vendors for licensing, which has made it more expensive...
What is your primary use case for AppWorx Workload Automation?
In general, I use Atomic Applications Manager to manage our unique servers in our cloud infrastructure, specifically ...
What needs improvement with Spot Ocean?
One problem that we faced using Spot by Flexera is that in certain servers, the data was not being updated correctly,...
What is your primary use case for Spot Ocean?
For the past two years, I have been developing a project to implement Spot by Flexera as a software asset management ...
What advice do you have for others considering Spot Ocean?
The interface of Spot by Flexera was very simple to use. Spot by Flexera Academy had lots of important information th...
 

Also Known As

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CA Automic Applications Manager
Spot Ocean, Spot Elastigroup, Spot Eco
 

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Sample Customers

Teradata, Arconic, General Dynamics, Yum!, CVS Health, Comcast, Ghiradelli, & Boston’s Children’s Hospital
Sandvik, Hanwha Life
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