The DSE previously used tools causing several pain points for the department’s IT staff. Failure notifications were frequently unreliable, and lacked sufficient information to identify specific points of failure.
Although native SQL tools provide basic scheduling capabilities, Frontline recognized that leaning on SQL for automation was a less than ideal solution.
ESCO Advisors’ proprietary applications draw content from multiple data stores and run millions of calculations against the data every day. For each energy retailer, they collect data such as weather forecasts, usage history, market prices, energy supply, and billed revenue per customer.
Southwest Power Pool took advantage of the ability to run any kind of script in JAMS. They leveraged JAMS to run their batch scripts, SQL SSIS packages, PowerShell scripts and C# code all within the larger context of their enterprise workflows.
Uptime and on-time refreshes are critical for companies moving at the speed of retail business. When Windows Task Scheduler could no longer keep up, SharkNinja knew it was time to implement workload automation software. The requirements were simple – rapid implementation, and a robust out-of-the-box feature set.
Hosting critical applications and business processes on multiple platforms had created a variety of pressure points for UVA Health’s workload automation tools. Failures and delays caused by the shortcomings of these tools were unacceptable.
When Kansas City Public Schools moved to Windows, they knew they would need automation solutions robust and flexible enough to handle the needs of the district’s 35 centers and 15,000 students. By combining JAMS Workload Automation and GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer, KCPS was able to…
Seminole Electric Cooperative is one of the largest electric power generation and transmission facilities in the United States. Initially, Seminole would run its Dynamics AX batch jobs at 11:00 PM, in the hopes that other processes would be done by the time Dynamics jobs started. A Thursday backup that included weekly consolidation of several databases frequently ran long, causing Dynamics jobs to fail. The Seminole team would often spend Friday mornings troubleshooting and re-running jobs.
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.
U.S. Sugar used a combination of the SAP Job Scheduler and various FTP applications’ jobs to execute its data extracts and data processes. To run jobs reliably, the team needed to build ample padding into the schedule to allow the SAP jobs to finish before the file transfers started.