Resources

Job history is an important topic of conversation in the job scheduling world. In recent articles, we’ve talked about the importance of having reliable and thorough audit history reports of your job schedule, which serves as an important security feature. When you know who is changing your job schedule and how they’re changing it—when you are armed Read More

Reining in the source of all your jobs is an essential step in your transition to centralized workload automation. Even if you are not writing code all day, you must think of yourself as a developer. Your “application” is the business. And, the features of your application are its automated workloads. Silos are for Farms, Read More

Let’s face it: not every one of your jobs runs on a perfect schedule—your schedule isn’t filled with jobs that run on the hour, every hour, every time. What’s a busy system administrator to do? Set up job monitor statuses, that’s what. Real businesses are complex and dynamic environments, in which job schedules are based Read More

What’s the Difference Between Workload Automation and Job Scheduling Tools? The terms workload automation and job scheduling are often used interchangeably. Workload automation and job scheduling are in fact closely related; however, workload automation tools cover a broader range of capabilities than traditional job scheduling tools. In short, workload automation is an advanced, flexible form Read More

There are a few qualities you want everyone working within your company to have. They should be able to prioritize a workload, utilize resources effectively, and shift tactics based on a changing situation. These traits are as important in your workload automation solution as they are in your employees. What is a Job Queue? At Read More

Companies across market segment, size, revenue, and industry have one thing in common: credit card data breaches. It’s no secret that recent years have seen record numbers of security breaches, keeping consumers and retailers alike on the edge of their seats wondering if their data was secure. Of course most companies have security measures in Read More

How to calculate return on investment (ROI) for automation projects 1. Determine your Business Requirements 2. Start your Research 3. Start a Trial 4. Get a Quote 5. Calculate Soft Costs 6. Calculate Costs and Savings over 5 Years According to a survey on IT spending priorities, many IT departments are overpromising the ROI for Read More

The latest build of JAMS V7 provides users with a new database option – Azure SQL. For most enterprises, SQL, or even SQL Express, has plenty of horsepower to handle data on the back end of JAMS. We specifically designed JAMS to consume as few resources as possible – an efficient database structure, small payloads, Read More

We often think of invoice processing as the responsibility of our accounting department and their ERP system. They should have this process locked up, right? But, IT teams can be deeply involved, especially when invoicing involves multiple platforms and systems. To generate invoices repeatedly and accurately requires a holistic view of every step of the Read More

Cron is our old frenemy: we love to hate it and we hate to love it. Cron, the simple job scheduler, has been shipped with UNIX and Linux since the dawn of time…or at least the dawn of the computer age. The crontab scheduler is great for simple tasks, but there are three primary problems Read More