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In Their Own Words We’re refreshing the way enterprises automate. And we measure success by the voices of our customers. JAMS has delivered the robust and flexible solution we needed to develop and fine-tune the job scheduling automation needs for our environment. The JAMS support team has been responsive and most importantly – solution oriented!...Read More

Is Your VM Running? While it may sound like the start of a joke, there’s nothing funny about burning company cash on unused VM cycles – especially when your big data jobs require VMs with substantial resources. Adding dependencies and advanced scheduling logic to VM jobs produces real, measurable cost savings. Workload automation is the...Read More

  A Glimpse at Workload Automation Fundamentals Looking to better understand how workload automation (WLA) can help your organization centralize and automate critical processes in your business? This guide offers an overview of the six fundamentals of WLA and provides innovative ways to manage scheduled jobs in your organization. Use this guide to learn how...Read More

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

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

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

The adage “time is money” certainly applies to modern business computing. Not so long ago, it was acceptable for a computer or a process to be offline for a few minutes or a few hours. Not anymore.  High availability allows systems to continue operating after a failure over a given period of time.   As your Read More

Microsoft PowerShell was created to simplify and automate Microsoft tasks by creating scripts and combining them with multiple commands. While this has helped cut down on some repetitive work, manually deploying PowerShell scripts can still be tedious. With a workload automation solution—like JAMS from Fortra—your PowerShell scripts can reach their full potential by bringing your Read More

If there’s one thing IT and DevOps teams could always use more of — it’s time. With the ongoing talent shortage and ever-increasing project lists, efficiency and a keen understanding of priorities are key. But there are only so many hours in the day and people on the team, which means it’s important to look Read More

Yvette Carpenter is the technical operations manager for a financial services firm that spun off from another company in 2016. Before the transition, the company wasn’t using true enterprise scheduling solutions, and Carpenter was tasked with automating a great number of manual processes. After evaluating potential automation partners, the company selected JAMS, a centralized workload Read More