AutoSys Workload Automation vs VisualCron comparison

Broadcom and SMA Technologies are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. Broadcom is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.6, while SMA Technologies is ranked #24. Broadcom holds a 6.8% mindshare in WA, compared to SMA Technologies’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SMA Technologies users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

AutoSys Workload Automation and VisualCron are competing in the workload automation category. AutoSys seems to have the upper hand due to its reliability and scalability, making it suitable for large enterprises managing complex workloads.

Features: AutoSys Workload Automation offers strong scheduling capabilities, seamless integration with multiple platforms, and high scalability for complex environments. VisualCron boasts flexibility with a wide range of tasks, ease of use, and powerful script execution options, appealing for diverse task management.

Room for Improvement: AutoSys could benefit from quicker integration with new market trends and improved deployment agility. Enhancing its user interface to be more intuitive and accessible could also be beneficial. VisualCron might improve by enhancing its robustness for handling very large-scale operations. Providing more in-depth documentation and scaling its solution to meet enterprise-level demands could further enhance its offering.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AutoSys has a traditional deployment model that often requires significant time and expertise, but it offers solid troubleshooting support. VisualCron offers a simpler deployment process and is more accessible for smaller teams. Its customer service is praised for responsiveness and accessibility, creating a smoother overall experience.

Pricing and ROI: AutoSys generally involves a higher setup cost aligning with its enterprise focus and long-term scalability benefits. VisualCron presents a cost-effective alternative for smaller organizations or those starting without heavy infrastructure commitments, offering quick returns on investment with lower initial expenses and simpler setup processes.

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AutoSys Workload Automation vs. VisualCron

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of JAMS is 3.0%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AutoSys Workload Automation is 6.8%, down from 11.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VisualCron is 1.9%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
JAMS	3.0%
AutoSys Workload Automation	6.8%
VisualCron	1.9%
Other	88.3%

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Latha Viswanathan

Principal Data Base And Infrastructure Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees

Automation has replaced nightly monitoring and delivers reliable, unified job scheduling

We have really enjoyed working with JAMS in terms of notifications, alerts, and streamlining. There used to be a process with Automate, which is another product from Fortra, but even before that, the other division of the company that we were merging with had a tool that was built in-house called a file handler or file distributor. It was an in-house developed tool, but it was not as streamlined or as efficient as JAMS is. We literally had to have a dedicated nighttime person monitoring. Although we are 24/7, the divisions of the company that we were using JAMS for have been small scale. While we have automated it, we have streamlined it in such a way that notifications go out and alerts go out, but if there is anything, then we get paged and alerted, and if anything needs to happen at midnight, we can wake up. On the other hand, with the tool I mentioned, the file handler and distributor, we used to have a dedicated nighttime person that had to be sitting and monitoring it to see when a file arrived, whether it met the conditions, and then execute the next particular job. 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.

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Pavan Katta

Assistant VP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Experience significant automation with robust integration and user-friendly interfaces

There are areas of AutoSys Workload Automation that have room for improvement. They are implementing good enhancements in the R24 release. The web UI needs some improvement. Cloud integrations are limited to 25 or 30 configurable plugins and integrations to the cloud. They can improve in that area. They have separate tools, not AutoSys Workload Automation, such as Atomic and other SaaS-based solutions that can run inside the cloud. AutoSys Workload Automation can be configured in the cloud, but it requires a substantial number of VMs depending on the load. For on-premises deployment, it is a very good solution. They need to increase their footprint in the cloud and improve the web UI. They are making excellent progress in the R24 release.

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Sourav-Dutta

Technical Lead - Database Administrator at SMART ENERGY SYSTEMS LLC

It's user-friendly, and I didn't need long to understand the process

We use VisualCron for all our automation needs, like connecting to FileZilla, calling APIs, generating PGP keys, creating encryption files with the PGP key login to Azure, etc. It can automatically log in to SQL Server and execute SQL script jobs in bulk. We had 2,000-3,000 users at my previous…

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The code-driven automation for more complex scheduling requirements frees up time because it's really easy to use... It's almost like a stand-alone software that we can't live without."

"The alerting in it is really targeted... you can set specific alerting so that if jobs in a given folder fail, certain people are alerted. You can also set security at the folder level, so that only people in those areas can go set them. That means that the alerting and security can be set at a very granular level."

"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."

"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."

"Fortra's JAMS helped us centralize job management across our platforms and applications. This is critical because we schedule tasks across multiple applications and operating systems, using triggers and start dates to coordinate their execution."

"JAMS has been a beneficial monitoring tool for our project in terms of being able to deliver data that is essential for users."

"The interface is good, and it's very easy to define and create jobs. If a job is not running or there is an error, the solution will send an email. That's all very good and very useful."

"The user-friendly and adaptable scheduler allows us to manage various scheduling scenarios."

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"The really nice thing is that, as the business grows, we're not seeing the infrastructure grow."

"We have gotten great support from CA; they are there whenever we need them, and whenever we open a case, they are very receptive to the issues that we have and resolve them in a timely manner."

"There are no challenges in the sense that Autosys is a robust product with good performance."

"Our company processes approximately 200,000 jobs a day through this product."

"The product itself has always been very, very stable, and extremely easy to upgrade."

"It gives us flexibility when doing releases. We can make changes for one day in a PDS member, since we stage our jobs by date, and the next day the normal job definitions are run."

"It is stable, it works, and it does what it is supposed to."

"It scales very well. We can add jobs and remove jobs. We do not have problems maintaining the product across multiple environments and multiple servers."

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"I love VisualCron because we previously spent a lot of time writing Power switches to connect to SQL Server. VisualCron makes it easier to execute services or connect to FileZilla by only adding the credentials to the master credentials stored in the solution."

"'ve only had a few cases where I've had to request support in the past 12 years of use, but the support response time and resolution were was extremely quick."

"The most valuable feature of VisualCron is its ability to schedule interactive jobs so that you can have interdependencies within the job and interdependencies of a job on another job, and so on."

"We don't have to do any coding. We just plug and play and it works."

"VisualCron makes everything clearer and easier to maintain."

"The tool has reduced our operational costs by 40%."

"What I found most beneficial from VisualCron is that you can directly connect it with different databases, user accounts, and credentials. You can run queries from one machine to another using the credentials, unlike PowerShell, that's run by the machine itself. With VisualCron, you can directly ask other machines and run requests through user credentials. Suppose you have an AWS or Azure environment. In that case, you can maintain the connection between on-premises and cloud-based machines, which is the type of setup in the organization I'm working for. You can directly call some of the services via VisualCron on your local on-premises machine, and I found that an excellent feature of the tool."

"Support is AAA+, fast, and very detailed."

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Cons

"The UI could be better. There were some things that were not quite intuitive, such as the search tool. When we tried to search for jobs, we had to clear the entire search and then go in and enter the new search query. That's something that wasn't intuitive for a new user."

"The cost has definitely gone up tremendously. That is where I do know, as much as the feature sets are there, and if the newly acquired company is going to be doing a pushback, they might just say, 'Do we still need to pay this much? Or at that point, should we look into an alternative?'"

"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."

"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."

"JAMS handles exceptions fairly well but there are some areas where it might improve a little bit. It has to do with being able to automatically handle exceptions, out-of-the-box, rather than having to code them."

"For the most part, JAMS is very stable. Occasionally, if you leave multiple windows open over a period of time, it is necessary to end that task and restart."

"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."

"JAMS could be improved with a web client that is accessible and as fast as a normal website, eliminating the need to RDP to the servers to access the JAMS client."

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"It's hard to tell what needs to be improved."

"They can be a little complex. It's just a big complex product that takes a lot of evaluation."

"Because this product only computes processing days, it is hard when things need to be scheduled according to non-processing days."

"Deploying those solutions and integrating with them was a little challenge at this point of time."

"I would like to see the Service Orchestrator, a B2B product, and maybe a process audit."

"Some support issues need to be addressed, but not through email, through personal contact via phone or WebEx."

"This is probably something you don't want to hear, but support seems to be getting worse over the years."

"The lack of documentation, that is an issue. When we do need to bring it down for maintenance, it is always a scary moment for us because we have never had it crash."

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"I would like for VisualCron to expand audit log to show who changed job variables that are initialized per job run."

"VisualCron seems to operate like an efficient machine when it comes to improvements and enhancements and new features. I always appreciate the quick response I get when bringing up an issue or coming up with suggestions. I've mentioned before that it would be great to see a move away from SQLCE and XML configuration files."

"There are some conditions in the mail trigger, but you can only use them as an "AND" condition, not as an "OR" condition."

"Our suggestion to make it better and more manageable in terms of GDPR: Implement it in a very partnership way."

"VisualCron's command console is a little bit difficult to understand and needs to improve."

"The documentation is a bit weak."

"An area for improvement in VisualCron is its cluttered interface."

"The error timeout and info could be better. When making web request calls, it will time out sometimes and we won't get any useful info out of the error response."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's certainly a lot cheaper than Tivoli and Control-M. In comparison to them, you get a lot more bang for your buck. You get pretty much the whole functionality and more, in some cases, when compared to Control-M, but at a fraction of the price."

"The licensing model for JAMS is straightforward and based on the number of agents, not the number of jobs you run. It's cheap and fairly simple."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"Take advantage of its scalability. You can start small. The initial cost is very reasonable. Once you have started picking up the tool and adopting it, then you can scale up from there and buy more agents."

"In the end, you'll find that it's really worth the price. There is some sticker shock, but it's worth every dime."

"All licensing models are a little overpriced, but JAMS offers a good value, especially given their support response times and ability to handle unforeseen issues like the SFTP transfers. I hope to find more use cases to get a better bang for our buck."

"I haven't been involved in the financial side for several years, but we buy one host and unlimited agents, and we get a reasonable price for that. We're happy with the amount we pay and the scalability it provides."

"Our licensing is pretty cheap because we have a state solution. So, we pay only $1,000 a year."

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"It is overpriced."

"People need to pay attention to how they use their ESP agents on the distributed platform. That's where some of the cost comes in, based on how many you need or how many you use."

"I don't have information on the exact licensing cost of AutoSys Workload Automation because that's managed by the tools and financing teams. For agents, it's close to $4,00, but for the server setup, it's usually a one-time license initially, and it's AMC which is paid every year and comes close to $8,000 to $10,000."

"The pricing needs to be improved. Some of my client's complained that it was too expensive."

"The price of this solution is reasonable and there is an annual license required."

"There is an annual license to use AutoSys Workload Automation."

"CA pricing has been a problem, and not looked upon favorably here at all."

"The return on investment would be very high because doing things manually without this product would be extremely expensive."

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"The price is a bit high."

"VisualCron is correctly priced because it wasn't very cheap, and it wasn't overly expensive, so the price for it was set correctly. When my previous company bought VisualCron, it was €800 per server per year. On a scale of one to five, I would rate the pricing for VisualCron a five because it was just right. The tool was affordable, and it has one of the most competitive pricing in the market."

"The pricing is extremely fair, and because of that I recommend purchasing multiple instances to split out the processing load across multiple application servers."

"ROI is 95 percent."

"We are fine with a rather cheap setup. Licensing with VisualCron is fair. You have a simple one-year licence in different sizes. There isn't a licensing jungle with hundreds of options and opt-ins."

"ROI is one month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

38%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

25%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	20

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Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	79

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

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...

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What needs improvement with JAMS?

To improve JAMS, it should resolve the issues with the JD Edwards application and the need for the SSH client connect...

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What is your primary use case for JAMS?

My main use case for JAMS is to install, set up, and configure for customers working with JD Edwards application. A s...

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How does Control-M compare with AutoSys Workload Automation?

Control-M acts as a single, centralized interface for monitoring and managing all batch processes, which is helpful b...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AutoSys Workload Automation?

It is reasonably priced compared to the market.

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What needs improvement with AutoSys Workload Automation?

There are areas of AutoSys Workload Automation that have room for improvement. They are implementing good enhancement...

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Overview

JAMS is an automation and job scheduling solution designed for workflow optimization, catering to businesses large and small with flexible licensing and integration options.

Offering both Core and Advanced packages, JAMS supports a range of environments from small teams to large-scale operations. Its standout features include integration with platforms like PowerShell, SQL, and SAP, coupled with capabilities such as dependency management and natural language scheduling. JAMS simplifies job management, centralizes workflows, and boosts productivity with its robust automation features. Customizable workflows and insightful logging make it adaptable for diverse needs, supported by responsive customer service ensuring seamless operations.

What are JAMS's key features?

Automation & Scheduling: Flexible automation helps manage complex job schedules efficiently.
Integration: Connects seamlessly with platforms like SQL Server, SAP, and Python for diverse applications.
Centralized Job Management: A unified interface for handling thousands of jobs daily.
Dependency Management: Supports complex workflows with efficient dependency tracking.
Insightful Logging: Provides detailed logs and notifications for precise task execution.

What benefits should users look for in JAMS reviews?

Enhanced Productivity: Automates repetitive tasks, freeing up resources for strategic initiatives.
Scalability: Flexible licensing models grow with business size and needs.
Efficient Workflow Automation: Streamlines job orchestration across environments.
Responsive Support: Helps ensure smooth operations with quick troubleshooting.

In industries, JAMS is employed for automating workflows and managing batch jobs. Organizations utilize it for SSIS, SQL Server tasks, file transfers, and integrating with vendor systems, achieving efficient file automation and data management. Scheduler enables precise execution of thousands of tasks daily, enhancing operational efficiency.

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AutoSys Workload Automation delivers comprehensive scheduling capabilities and integration features, offering users scalability and efficiency in automation across platforms. Its enhanced user-friendliness and security make it a reliable choice for job scheduling and workload management.

AutoSys Workload Automation is well-regarded for its stability and intuitive graphical interface which facilitates efficient job scheduling across platforms. Users find its security features effective in ensuring controlled access, and appreciate its ability to handle high volumes of jobs while providing seamless orchestration and monitoring. However, the interface could benefit from modernization. Enhancements are suggested for reporting features and job flow clarity. Its integration with mobility and cloud platforms requires improvement as current support remains limited. Improving monitoring capabilities, managing cross-application dependencies, and simplifying upgrades are essential. Additionally, addressing the costly licensing model and enhancing high-level system process views are significant for maintaining competitiveness in automation.

What are AutoSys's key features?

Scheduling Capabilities: Provides robust and flexible scheduling options across platforms.
Integration Features: Allows seamless automation with diverse systems.
Security Measures: Ensures controlled and secure access to resources.
User-Friendly Interface: Offers an intuitive GUI for simplified use.
High Job Volume Support: Efficiently manages a large number of jobs with ease.

What benefits can users expect?

Reduced Manual Efforts: Automates processes minimizing the need for manual intervention.
Enhanced Visibility: Improves oversight and monitoring of tasks.
Effective Troubleshooting: Streamlines troubleshooting with well-organized workflows.
Scalability: Scales across diverse environments to meet enterprise demands.
Improved Efficiency: Increases operational efficiency with optimized automation.

AutoSys Workload Automation is extensively used in industries like banking, insurance, and retail for job scheduling, batch management, and server workload automation. It supports data processing for enterprise tasks, monitors tasks, and manages cross-platform dependencies, proving to be a reliable tool for complex job orchestration in these sectors.

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VisualCron offers task automation through a visual interface, eliminating the need for programming skills. With capabilities like alerting and variable usage, users benefit from integration with databases, timely task execution, and cross-platform operations.

VisualCron empowers users by simplifying complex workflows. It allows seamless task automation through features like interactive scheduling and role-based operations. Users appreciate its integration capabilities, replacing multiple tools with a comprehensive automation solution. The support system ensures quick assistance, making it a reliable choice for workflow visualization and task execution. However, areas like error handling and interface design require enhancements for improved user experience.

What are the key features of VisualCron?

Visual Interface: Users automate tasks without needing programming skills.
Integration: Connects with databases and multiple systems to streamline operations.
Alerting: Notifies users about tasks and system statuses.
Task Scheduling: Allows interactive management of automated tasks.
Credentials Management: Enables cross-platform operations securely.

What benefits can users expect when evaluating VisualCron?

Increased Efficiency: Reduces the time spent on manual processes.
Cost Reduction: Eliminates the need for multiple tools by consolidating functionalities.
Enhanced Support: Offers robust post-sales support for quicker assistance.
Streamlined Workflows: Simplifies complex task automation.

Organizations leverage VisualCron in industries like finance and logistics to automate tasks such as encryption and secure file transfers. It's also integral in managing data operations, facilitating communications between systems, and executing SQL jobs, enhancing operational efficiency across sectors.

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Sample Customers

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

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7 Eleven, ABB Sécheron SA, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Amazon Europe Core, Apple, Assa Abloy, Aston Martin, Banco Santander, BMW (Australia)

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