As IT environments grow in complexity, companies are looking for ways to get a better handle on their workflows. While batch processing emerged as an early way to process more data without maximizing resources, businesses and technology have evolved and a new type of software has emerged—workload orchestration. Learn how we’ve entered this next chapter, Read More
Posted in JAMS What is a Batch Scheduler? A batch scheduler is a tool to execute multiple processes and enable automated batch processing. These batches can include anything in your IT environment like scripts, loads, tasks, multi-step workloads, and file transfers to name a few. Batch processes are executed via scripts and run in the background of your Read More
Posted in JAMS Workload Automation terms have gone largely unchecked over the last few years. What was once simply referred to as “batch processing” has now evolved (or devolved) into a multitude of terms such as “application automation,” “runbook automation,” “resource automation,” and more. What are the differences? Largely, there are none! Whether you’re running Hadoop shell or pig Read More
Posted in Analysts 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 Read More
Posted in Uncategorized Let’s face it. Scheduling batch jobs with native batch automation tools isn’t easy, or flexible. Whether you’re wrestling with the complex format of cron, or dealing with the limited features in Windows Task Scheduler or SQL Agent, it is never as easy as 1-2-3. Let’s break down some real-world examples of scheduling batch jobs with Read More
Posted in Automate Smarter, JAMS, SQL, Windows Task Scheduler 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 Read More
Posted in Uncategorized Enterprise job scheduling is a must-have for modern enterprises. The pace of business continues to increase, the volume of data continues to grow, and new technologies make IT environments more complex all the time. New technology and new IT trends are changing the way enterprises are run. Enterprise job scheduling software may have once been Read More
Posted in Automate Smarter, Workload Automation Core Concept 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 Read More
Posted in JAMS, Uncategorized Once you’ve experienced the efficient cadence that goes along with smart workload automation and service orchestration, it’s difficult to imagine life without it. Employing best practices when you define a batch process can save you hours of time in the future. JAMS is designed to help enterprises maintain good habits across every batch process on Read More
Posted in Uncategorized Most of the time, you run Windows batch files using the Command Execution Method, which replicates running them in a command prompt window (cmd.exe). But, what if you need to perform additional processing within the same job and you are running that batch processing in PowerShell? You have several methods to launch Windows batch files Read More
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