Introduction to SQL Joins: A Beginner’s Guide with Practical Examples

SQL joins are a great way to combine data from multiple tables into a relational database. Understanding how to use the different types of joins will allow you to efficiently pull results from your data. Let’s go through the most common SQL joins and explore practical examples—including tips and common pitfalls to avoid—using the popular


5 IT Processes Before and After Event-Based Job Scheduling

Playing traffic cop shouldn’t be a part of any IT job. But that’s the reality when it comes to coordinating the IT processes that keep an organization running—whether they involve batch jobs, scripts, EOD processes, or more. Job scheduling software keeps the traffic of your IT environment moving, but not all solutions are created equal.


Streamlining IT Operations: How Automation Can Save Hours and Money

Today’s IT teams can’t do it all. Once only in charge of that “fancy tech stuff”, practitioners today find themselves strapped as it’s all fancy tech stuff now – and business outcomes are intrinsically related to digital outcomes.  Simply put, if you’re up on your digital processes, the business moves ahead. If you’re behind, so


Cloud Orchestration: ​​Why It Matters in 2024

As much as 87% of enterprises embrace a multi-cloud approach. While this enables flexibility and convenience, it also creates confusion and complexity when managing tasks across multiple platforms.   As companies grow, point solutions organically crop up to solve problems where they arise, eventually creating siloes that require individual attention and maintenance. This slows processes and


What is a Cloud Scheduler? How to Better Schedule Cloud-Based Jobs

Organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud as they build out their IT infrastructure. Cloud adoption has become commonplace as companies look to reduce IT costs from purchasing, managing, and maintaining on-premises infrastructure and hardware. Plus, cloud services can provide greater scalability and increased flexibility for accessing content across the business. By 2026, Gartner predicts


Migration Success: Customized Automation with Fortra’s JAMS 

In many businesses, there is often a deep seeded fear of change. Time and again, a business will dedicate resources just to support an inefficient system, thinking that the sunk cost justifies the effort. The funny part is that even the people who are hired to support a broken process will recognize that the system


Service Orchestration: Optimize Your IT Environment for Greater Efficiency

Looking to optimize the way your entire IT environment runs? As organizations turn to cloud services, maintaining visibility and control across all applications and systems has become a new challenge for IT teams. Traditional job scheduling worked great when most systems were on premises. But as IT teams employ more and more cloud-based services, service


Migration Success: Customised Automation with Fortra’s JAMS 

In many businesses, there is often a deep seeded fear of change. Time and again, a business will dedicate resources just to support an inefficient system, thinking that the sunk cost justifies the effort. The funny part is that even the people who are hired to support a broken process will recognise that the system


Elevate ETL Automation with Workload Automation

Data drives modern businesses, and the volume of data to be processed at an organization just keeps growing. In fact, the amount of data being generated is expected to reach 175 zettabytes by 2025. All this data helps drive the important decisions made on a daily basis, determining everything from how to operate more efficiently


New in JAMS V7.0

Jobs Sequences JAMS V7 introduces Sequences, a powerful tool to manage multi-job, multi-step workflows. Sequences have all the properties of an individual job, plus additional workflow functionality, such as nesting and parallel processing. The Sequences drag-and-drop editor provides utilities for uploading and downloading from file transfer servers, as well as file renaming and deleting. Soft