Destination XL Group, Inc. (DXLG) is a long-time Ecometry (JDA Direct Commerce) user. When Ecometry dropped HP 3000 support in favor of Windows, DXLG needed to find a job scheduler that could mirror current processing and boast a robust feature set to grow with the company.
Maritz, Inc. relied on a highly-customized legacy scheduling tool to handle batch processing across the organization. When the tool’s integrity and future came into question, Maritz set out to find an enterprise job scheduler that would solve their complex requirements and a team that could successfully migrate Maritz.
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.
When the University of Mary Washington (UMW) first moved to a Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL) net tuition discounting program, it took their team 8-10 hours a day to manually run ISIR loads through the 55 aid packaging groups (each a Banner process) to produce letter files. The University found they needed to automate the aid process in order to scale – hiring more personnel wasn’t an option.
With JAMS, a file trigger automatically kicks off the ISIR load import once a new file is ready, moves the ISIR load through hundreds of decision points and 120 packaging groups within the RNL matrix, and even creates letter files for the University to print letters. The whole end-to-end process runs in JAMS, and only takes about 20 minutes for each ISIR file – no manual processing necessary.
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.
Maritz designs and operates employee recognition and reward programs, sales channel incentive programs, and customer loyalty programs. To execute thousands of daily file transfers and the batch processes necessary upon receipt required an application stack that spread across 3 separate applications. JAMS consolidated all scheduling and automation – both Windows and Linux jobs – into one console, saving the company hours of overhead.
JAMS runs more than 800 jobs with excellent reliability. Maritz leverages JAMS central monitor to view its entire schedule of jobs and keeps business users informed of the status of critical jobs with JAMS alerts and notifications.
Reinhart Foodservice used various processes to distribute financial information to its distribution centers, and to send sales data reports to assorted customers. The company had previously used OpenVMS scripts (DCL) to schedule each step of the business process.
JAMS helped Reinhart’s IT team bring each subprocess into highly structured sequences that are easily modified to match the contract specifications of customers.
TGW (The Golf Warehouse) needed an efficient method to move orders from its ERP system to its warehouse system. This process uses an EDI to gather related data from the ERP database and transfer it (via SFTP) to cloud-based tools for a comprehensive customer experience.
TGW uses JAMS to combine PowerShell, SQL*Plus, and Ecometry jobs into unified business processes. Their ability to build workflows in a single console has greatly reduced the manual hours needed to connect jobs on different platforms.
A U.S. government agency’s infrastructure group was inundated with many menial tasks, and needed its complex processes to have “reliability of programming”. With JAMS orchestrating each task, the agency has brought uniformity to the time and conditions under which processes execute.