JAMS 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

JAMS

4.5

(19)

Pricing

Starting at $9,996.00 per year

About JAMS

JAMS is an automation orchestration and job scheduling solution that works across applications, APIs, and scripting languages. Run, monitor, and manage critical IT processes—from simple batch jobs to cross-platform workflows—from a single pane of glass.

JAMS can automate jobs on any platform - Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM i, zOS, and OpenVMS and includes native application integrations to run jobs specific to databases, BI tools, and ERP systems. Its extensive automation features enable you to run jobs on any schedule, as well as trigger off the completion of other events. JAMS centrally monitors the status of all jobs, provides notifications of failure (or success), and maintains a detailed audit trail and log of every execution.

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JAMS Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $9,996.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Core

$9,996.00

per year

Plan includes:

Full IT and data orchestration
Cross-platform job scheduling
Advanced workflow automation
Email notifications
Available on AWS and Azure
24×7 support
Web and thick clients
.NET API, Rest API
Managed File Transfer client

Advanced

$19,996.00

flat rate, per year

Plan includes:

Custom scheduler + agent configuration
Enterprise IT and data orchestration
Advanced security, compliance, & audit
Centralized monitoring & diagram view
Professional implementation services
Migration services available

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JAMS Features

Popular features found in Integration
API
Configurable Workflow
Dashboard
Data Connectors
Data Extraction
Data Import/Export
Data Management
Multiple Data Sources
Reporting/Analytics
Third-Party Integrations
Web Services
Workflow Management
More features of JAMS
Access Controls/Permissions
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
Approval Process Control
Attended Automation
Audit Trail
Automated Scheduling
Business Process Automation
Business Process Control
Calendar Management
Capacity Management
Change Management
Code-free Development
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Management
Compliance Tracking
Customizable Dashboard
Customizable Reports
Data Mapping
Data Warehouse
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
ETL
Event Logs
Forecasting
Gantt/Timeline View
Graphical User Interface
Graphical Workflow Editor
Incident Management
Integration into Third Party Applications
Integrations Management
Issue Auditing
IT Reporting
Maintenance Scheduling
Monitoring
No-Code
Patch Management
Performance Metrics
Prioritization
Process Builder
Process Change Tracking
Process Modeling & Designing
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Remote Access/Control
Role-Based Permissions
Rules-Based Workflow
Scheduling
Self Service Portal
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
Software Development
Source Control
Status Tracking
Task Management
Templates
Ticket Management
Unattended Automation
Workflow Configuration

JAMS Integrations

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SQL Server

Azure VMware Solution

Oracle PeopleSoft

Ellucian

MySQL

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JAMS User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

58%

37%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.5

David W.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

More than just scheduling

We have been very happy with the JAMS product and the Team @ MVPSI overall; the product is very stable and the vendor team is very responsive with issues and helping the customers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We have found the flexibility of the JAMS product to give us a great breadth of use cases. Beyond just doing conditional job execution; we actually use it for workflow orchestration on larger processes where a job can monitor other jobs and continue or fail the larger process.

Cons:

There have been growing pains shifting from the V6.5 to V7.x version of software so much changed in the UI/UX that getting use to the new front end has been tiresome. The installation process has also been problematic over the years; but appears to be more stable in the most recent version.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the great review, David! We hope you continue to enjoy the flexibility and robustness of JAMS, and always be sure to reach out to us if you ever need anything.

Replied June 2019

Scott B.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Using JAMS for 8 years

We heavily use JAMS and love using the product. We run about 30,000 jobs a day and have a production support team of 10 people that manage the jobs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The access to the data - we run SQL queries to easily manage the data - the table structure is easy to understand and is accessible.

Cons:

Sometimes it takes a little time to find a job in complex workflows.

Reasons for choosing JAMS

Cheaper and better features

Reasons for switching to JAMS

Cheaper and better features

Davesh M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Excellent idea for software, clients, and scheduling. However, very buggy and not well executed

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The idea of having JAMS scheduler handle jobs and monitor them is fantastic and is the best solution so far for batch jobs while managing 20-50 servers.

Cons:

Software is extremely buggy, web client is almost unusable, constant updates, clients sometimes crashes leaving an entire system useless until restarted, sometimes updates fail wasting company time in reverting state

Vendor Response

Thank you for the feedback! JAMS is constantly being enhanced and improved, so we hope your overall experience also improves with each release. If you have specific enhancement requests that you feel would help make the product better, please feel free to contact your JAMS account rep or JAMS Support.

Replied April 2019

Bruce C.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Electronics

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

JAMS helps IT do their job

Our team has used JAMS extensively to manage a number of different tasks/processes on several different servers and different operating systems (unix/windows) with a number of different methods such as scripting (bash/powershell) and SSIS calls and calling URL endpoints as well. This is a very flexible tool and it works well for our IT services team.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Jams is a pretty full featured job schedule tool. Jobs can be scheduled to run on repeated (hourly) or one time. Jobs can be tired or chained if you want as well. The interface is well done so you don't spend a lot of time finding what you need to modify or update a job. My favorite feature is the email log for completed or errored jobs, so you can get right to work - from your email tool by viewing the log.

Cons:

I have found that the search/query tool doesn't default to the current day when I'm looking for a job. I realize that some users want to keep the query as they left it - thus the need to keep the previous dates and query string. Perhaps a "reset to default" button to clear everything up and get the query tool ready to use would be helpful.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the great feedback, Bruce! We're thrilled that JAMS continues to be a useful tool for you and the team. The search/query behavior is very powerful, but something we're actively working to improve upon from an end-user's perspective. Be sure to keep a close eye on the Release Notes for an update on that front in the near future! If there's anything else you need, or features you'd like to see added to JAMS that could benefit the user base, please don't hesitate to reach out to your JAMS account rep or JAMS Support.

Replied May 2019

Nancy G.

Verified reviewer

Package/ Freight Delivery

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

JAMS ease of use, ease of understanding

Very positive. It is a great tool for a variety of teams to use. At our site, the non-production JAMS instance is used to insure the jobs / setups work as expected BEFORE being deployed to Production. And once in Production, Setups & Jobs can be visually monitored by the general public. A variety of notifications on a job's status can be sent automatically, thus eliminating the need to involve valuable "production" resources to answer routine inquires of process owners. Win-win!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

JAMS has an amazing amount of processing capabilities available. However, the support team is an invaluable part of the product. The support team has been fantastic in helping me to understand what capabilities are available and exactly how to use them. Response to on-line chat requests are answered very quickly. They offer to set up GoToMeetings for hands on assistance. And, on the rare occasion the technician doesn't know the answer, he will find the answer for you! Amazing! They take customer support seriously! The product is tremendously robust too!

Cons:

It can seem a little clunky when using the UI. Sometimes the response time in viewing the detail screens is slow. However, it is difficult to know if it is the JAMS product or our environment that is slow in rendering results.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review, Nancy! We always appreciate hearing success stories like yours, and strive to provide industry leading support to all of our customers. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you ever need anything.

Replied June 2019

Craig H.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

JAMS Scheduler From HelpSystems

As I stated above, I have been using JAMS since 2009 and here it is now 2019. JAMS is easy to install and once up and running JAMS just keeps on running. JAMS is extremely stable. The JAMS Support Staff is very knowledgeable and respond if needed very quickly. JAMS Support also resolves any issues quickly and resolves the issue the first time.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I am the JAMS Administrator at one of the largest Banking Financial Institutions Worldwide. We have been using JAMS Scheduler since 2009 in our Credit Card Division and Mortgage Division scheduling and running thousands of batch reports worldwide each month with no issues, automatically running all jobs on time as scheduled and as requested. Another vendors scheduler system used in other divisions is called AutoSys. Once Line of Business partners see JAMS they ask: How do we convert from AutoSys to JAMS.

Cons:

CONS would be just that during major upgrades from one release version to the next higher release version, ex: version 6 to version 7 migration, the new version is NOT backwards compatible, thereby causing to have to perform the Big Bang approach to upgrading to the newest release.

Vendor Response

Awesome review, Craig! We are extremely happy to have you as a long time customer, and proud of the fact that JAMS continues to be an integral part of Bank of America's ecosystem. Let us know if we can be of any assistance, and we look forward to continuing to strengthen our relationship with your team.

Replied May 2019

Chris P.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Center of our universe

Using JAMS at last 3 sites I've worked. There is no other competitive product in the price range. And should be included as part of any Direct Commerce system install.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Interfaces with virtually everything we have running, Windows Server, Linux, iSeries and is the central part of the production environment. Proved to be a great catalyst for developing in PowerShell.

Cons:

Clients tend to lose connection with server as it does not refresh consistently (v6), sometimes frustrating that other sessions will show different job statuses. Needs a frequent restart, not just a simple refresh.

Vendor Response

Great review, Chris. Thanks for that! We often compare JAMS to the cardiovascular system of organizations, so your review title is very fitting. The JAMS Client connection can be affected by the network being leveraged, however we've focused development efforts in newer versions of JAMS (V7) to increase resiliency between the JAMS Server and Clients. We hope you get a chance to check it out for yourself soon, as well as experience all the new features that come in V7! Of course, if you need anything, please don't be shy. JAMS Support or your account manager are always available!

Replied May 2019

jeff e.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

JAMS is a must...

Fantastic !!!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software is fantastic in ease of use, reporting and job creating. However, the support is second to none .. I cannot stress how fast and effective their support team is, I haven't seen anything even close.

Cons:

I cannot think of much that I don't like, upgrades are a snap, support is amazing, GUI is amazing.

Michael T.

Verified reviewer

Legal Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

JAMS is a Great Enterprise Workload Automation Solution

JAMS is a very useful and powerful tool, great enterprise solution.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Centralized management enterprise workload automation. Easy setup jobs for different tasks. User friendly interface.

Cons:

JAMS might can provide more user access control.

Greg E.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Best automation software for processing inbound/outbound files.

Great files automation at all levels. Great dependency checking. The new Workflows are a great addition and very useful for full scale "thinking" by the flow or processes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Very configurable with PowerShell and many other languages.

Cons:

When I am in the system and I undock my laptop, the software loses it's connection to the server. So you have to close the software and reopen it. But that is the least of my worries.

Vendor Response

Hi, Greg. Thanks for the review! It's great to hear that you're having success with your file processing and PowerShell jobs. Client connection is something that JAMS Development has been working to improve in newer version of V7.x, so hopefully you're able to upgrade soon for a better experience when undocking. If there's anything else we can do to help, please don't hesitate to reach out to JAMS Support. We're here to help!

Replied May 2019

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