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MIGRATION SUCCESS: CUSTOMISED AUTOMATION WITH FORTRA’S JAMS 

April 4, 2023 | Posted in Uncategorized
Table of contents

 1. Fear of disruption
 2. Flexible, customisable scheduling 
 3. Tailored automation and integration 
 4. Visibility into processes 
 5. Why Make the Switch to Fortra’s JAMS? 
 6. See How JAMS Can Modernize Your Automation 

In many businesses, there is often a deep seeded fear of change. Time and again,
a business will dedicate resources just to support an inefficient system,
thinking that the sunk cost justifies the effort. The funny part is that even
the people who are hired to support a broken process will recognise that the
system is not optimized and needs a total overhaul. Yet they continue to support
it because it has been the status quo for years and is part of their role. The
real truth is, in business, anything not optimised, is broken. And not
optimising is not a sustainable business model. 


FEAR OF DISRUPTION

One of the most salient examples of inefficient processes is seen with companies
using legacy workload automation solutions. Technology is constantly evolving.
Companies have to adapt to stay competitive. Enterprise applications have to
adapt also. Where schedulers are concerned, that is not always the case. What
might have worked really well initially can very quickly become not fit for the
intended purpose.  

Customer requirements have evolved beyond the capabilities of the scheduler. The
team has changed. The technology stack has changed. There are many reasons why a
legacy workload automation solution cannot keep up with what is required in a
modern business environment. Despite this, the business leaders, the
stakeholders, the decision-makers, all face high barriers when considering
moving to a new scheduler system.  Far too often we come across organisations
that have tolerated poor performance for fear that switching to a new solution
is an arduous task.  

Don’t let fear get in the way of growing your business. Lack of visibility into
what is going on with your IT tasks and processes, lack of control over the
processes that you’re managing, and lack of enterprise capabilities—like
dependencies, triggers and alerting—are all problems that are solved with
Fortra’s JAMS, a job scheduling and workload automation solution. While some of
this functionality may exist partially with other systems and solutions, it may
not work as well as it does in JAMS.  Those who have chosen to make the switch
can attest that the benefits far outweigh the struggles. 

Below we’ll take you through three examples of customers who have recently made
the switch to Fortra’s JAMS.  


FLEXIBLE, CUSTOMISABLE SCHEDULING 

One customer in Germany who operates in the financial services space came to
JAMS after years of working with a competing product. The other product just
couldn’t support the over 4,000 individual job definitions that were executed
more than 40,000 times per day. The software was having technical problems, and
they weren’t getting an adequate response from the support provided by the
vendor. 

The JAMS migration services team worked effectively with all the stakeholders to
fully understand the customer requirements, their deliverables, and timeframes.
They were able to break down the tasks into manageable components. They
implemented a strategy to help the customer make the shift with zero downtime in
their mission-critical daily processing. The customer loved how JAMS supports
multiple non-production environments and commented that the ease with which JAMS
jobs can be moved through the software development lifecycle was one of the
factors that helped them make the move. 

This functionality allowed them to better integrate their job creation and
scheduling into their DevOps pipeline. Another compelling benefit for this
customer was how JAMS is able to work with PowerShell. They were no longer
limited to working with a vendor’s proprietary code, and could leverage the
existing knowledge base of their in-house coders and developers. s proprietary
code, and could leverage the existing knowledge base of their in-house coders
and developers.   


TAILORED AUTOMATION AND INTEGRATION 

Another success story is from a large insurance company that was seeking to
migrate from another industry competitor. They were having difficulties with
certain job types, mainly a ServiceNow integration pack that was not working as
advertised, and they had to fall back on using scripts to manage their
ServiceNow jobs. Writing, testing, debugging and maintaining scripts can consume
a lot of time. Making small changes can result in unexpected behaviour, which
can lead to downtime.

They made the decision to move to JAMS after running a short “Proof of Value”
trial. The flexibility of the custom execution methods offered by JAMS was a
huge factor for them. This functionality allows users to create their own
integrations with any system that supports an API or CMD Line connection. This
is powerful functionality for any JAMS customer.  


VISIBILITY INTO PROCESSES 

This success story comes from a customer who operates in the banking space. They
were using a competitor’s product for over a decade, but ultimately found that
it lacked basic modern IT architecture principals, like support for installation
in the cloud. They were going through a significant transformation, moving all
of their on-premise systems into the cloud. Not having cloud capabilities for
the scheduler seriously impacted this business-transforming project. 

Being able to install JAMS on any public or private cloud provider was an
immediate advantage. Another significant benefit, according to their IT manager,
was the ability to build complex, multi-step processes with dependencies and
logic-based decision-making. The bank has dozens of complex, overnight processes
that have hundreds of steps. With JAMS, they were able to leverage the
enterprise feature set to build in much more granular control over the nightly
batch. They could also visualise this complexity using the unique relational job
diagram view in JAMS. This allows customers to see all the upstream and
downstream relationships between dependent jobs. In a complex IT landscape,
having this degree of visibility into your processing is key to ensuring your
batch is set up correctly.  


WHY MAKE THE SWITCH TO FORTRA’S JAMS? 

Organisations that are looking for a modern and reliable scheduler will benefit
greatly from JAMS. Our comprehensive enterprise feature set, ease of use, and
exceptional support make JAMS a top-rated solution in the industry. Don’t
believe us? See what our customers have to say on G2, TrustRadius, and
PeerSpot. 

You are not the first, and you definitely won’t be the last customer wanting to
migrate to JAMS. The JAMS team has successfully migrated hundreds of customers
off various legacy scheduling systems. Our team is experienced in migrating
customers from Control-M, ActiveBatch, Redwood, Tidal, and Broadcom’s Automic,
Autosys, and UC4.  We use a wide range of conversion utilities to help automate
all or part of the process. These are supported by proven, product-specific
methodologies that can be adopted to each customer’s unique environment.   

Isn’t it time to graduate to the most efficient and versatile enterprise
scheduling system available? Customers that have already made the move have not
looked back. JAMS is the answer you’ve been looking for. 


SEE HOW JAMS CAN MODERNIZE YOUR AUTOMATION 

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