Under Wilson HTM Investment Group’s old method, there were no dependencies in place between jobs, which increased the business risk of jobs potentially running out of sequence (or not at all). If this occurred, then the result was a significant effort the following day to remedy the situation.
Stater not only wanted to move their core batch scheduling system to a Windows platform, but also needed to centrally manage all of these decentralized tasks and processes.
One of the main issues that Zong faced was that there was no centralized control or management of their processes. Zong also had no way of being notified if remote jobs failed.
Jupiter is a fund management group, with institutional and retail clients in the UK, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. They were using a mixture of SQL Agent, Windows Task Scheduler, ad-hoc PowerShell Scripts, and Biztalk to run over 1,000 EDM, FTP, and ETL processes across hundreds of servers. The decentralized processing meant Jupiter had to spend considerable manual time just to monitor what was running, ensure processes were secure, and verify that they were compliant.
With JAMS, Jupiter’s processes are managed and visible from a single console. The run-time encryption, native history logging and audit trail, and Active Directory integration in JAMS ensure Jupiter’s processes run securely. JAMS has given the business room to scale from 1,000 to 36,000 daily processes spread across CashView batch jobs, It Ops, SCOM Alerting, Trading Systems, BI, Managed Fund Accounting, and even API-based self-service jobs that business users can launch from a SharePoint site.
Camden Asset Management needed to continuously convert accounting and trading data, pull in financial data from various sources, and distribute P&L reports to its internal and external customers. They used a mix of SQL Agent, Windows Task Scheduler, and open source scheduler SOS to run the thousands of jobs necessary for these business processes, but “simple timed schedulers” made error handling nearly impossible.
Securities America collects daily market data from a variety of sources, processes it in several databases, then distributes customized reports to its customers. Behind the scenes, more than 10,000 jobs are run to transfer files securely, encrypt/decrypt files, and generate reports. The IT team had to manage an abundance of servers to run individual tasks, which created mounting overhead as the business grew.