Basics of Workload Automation

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This recording covers a comprehensive review of the core building blocks of workload automation and explores practical ways to manage, monitor, and optimize your scheduled jobs


 

What’s Covered

  • Understanding Automation Tools – Explore the automation maturity curve to understand where basic scheduling tools fall short and how Workload Automation fits into the broader IT landscape.
  • Developing a Longer-Term Strategy – Learn why a cohesive WLA strategy beats a tangle of scripts, and how to build a foundation that scales with your organization.
  • Workload Automation Best Practices – Dive into hands-on best practices around dependencies, alerting, monitoring, and more to help you run workloads reliably and efficiently.
  • What to look for in a WLA Solution – A practical checklist of the key capabilities that separate a true WLA solution from basic job schedulers.
  • Interactive Discussion – Open Q&A session for questions and feedback

Duration: 30 mins.

Speakers:

Rob Newman

Rob Newman is a Solutions Engineer at JAMS Software, bringing decades of experience specializing in infrastructure support and systems integration across both small and large organizations. He is a technical lead professional providing customer-centric technical demonstrations, custom designed solutions and proof-of-concept installations. His technical expertise, problem solving and strong communication skills guides customers through the seamless integration of workload automation across hybrid IT environments with the goal of building a strategic partnership.

Adam Hoover

Adam Hoover is a Product Marketing Manager who joined JAMS in 2025. Having spent his career in a number of different customer-facing roles, he has worked directly with companies in numerous industries to solve their most complex automation and workflow challenges. He now leverages his technical background to drive awareness about the importance of robust workload automation solutions, and provide customers with clarity about the tools and best practices that are available to them