Customer Comments
Don't take our word for it, here's what some of our customers have to say about JAMS:
"Our business has become reliant on JAMS for nearly all scheduling and cross-platform application integration. We are impressed to find feature-to-feature parity between JAMS on OpenVMS and JAMS .NET."
Kevin Kuhlwein
Manager of Information Systems
Crane Plastics
"JAMS and OpenVMS have been a tremendous asset to us and fall into the realm of a very few of the the most technically polished and reliable products we operate ..."
Pete Gill
The TriZetto Group
"Because we've been a JAMS customer for so many years at iiX, we've come to rely on the scheduler product as the steady pulse of our batch scheduling operation on VMS, we feel confident and secure in the development of your product prior to public release.
We have only found problems with our installation and application when we've lapsed on ECO installations and are down level by several versions of patches.
The few occasions we've had any problems, the folks in support have been right here for us, day or night, rain or shine, even and especially when our problems are "user failure" related.
Because of the credibility we've experienced in the past with JAMS' historical dependability, we're confident that your product will work in any environment you have tested it in."
Tom Coones
Systems Manager
AMSWorld
"Our business is lending money to developing countries for a wide range of projects. As a result, we run a lot of accounting and overnight pricing jobs plus portfolio evaluation jobs and interapplication daily transfer jobs. There are a number of interdependencies between all of these; the data flows between the various applications; and the accounting jobs have different cycles or periods -like on the third Thursday of the month, you might run a job between two other jobs, but on any other day, those two jobs might run back to back. JAMS takes these complex interdependencies and calendar requirements and makes the whole process much, much easier."
-VMS Administrator
International Lender
"Start up was fast and easy, and it's gone a long way in helping us create the lights out environment we wanted. We went from queues we had to monitor for notification of missed jobs, jobs not running, jobs that died, and things like that to a basically hands-off operation. It's done a lot to improve our efficiency."
-Systems Manager
Financial Institution
"We started out looking at more than a dozen job scheduling products to make sure we covered our bases, with the vendors ranging from some of the largest software vendors in the world to companies with two or three employees. After spending about four months evaluating various products, only JAMS met all of our requirements. We especially liked their 24-by-7 support, which was critical to us since most of our batch processing occurs during non-business hours and on the weekends. We have now been running JAMS for almost two years on over 80 VAX and Alpha systems and the product is performing extremely well."
-Consultant
U.S. Postal Service
"Before, most of our jobs were being submitted by the programming staff, and if someone was out, a job might not run. JAMS takes care of that problem, automating the whole process so we can be certain that jobs will run as they are supposed to. The other big benefit for us is its history capability. It's easy to keep track of what's running, what has run, and what hasn't run."
-VMS Operations Manager
Insurance Company
"The product is incredibly stable, easy to use and set up, has more features than we can put to use, and the software support is very good. JAMS has made it easy to schedule jobs to run multiple times a day, run the same job with different parameters, and set up dependencies so jobs run in the right order."
-Information Systems Manager
Plastic Parts Manufacturer
"We have relatively large recurring tasks that we have to run each week for different sites. These jobs involve a number of dependencies and system constraints which, in the past, required a great deal of operator involvement. Now we've set everything up in JAMS, and for the most part, it's all pretty much automatic."
-Systems Manager
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