MVP Software is a company that develops the JAMS Scheduler Workload Automation

Workload Automation

The concept of Workload Automation is an evolution of traditional job schedulers which needed to react to the dynamic demands of IT. Workload automation needs to be able to coordinate—in real-time—a varied set of workload types with complex dependencies across a broad spectrum of operating systems...

 and enterprise job scheduling

Job scheduler

A job scheduler is a software application that is in charge of unattended background executions, commonly known for historical reasons as batch processing....

 software used to automate IT processes. Headquartered in Connecticut, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 MVP Systems also has office locations in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Competitors include: CA, BMC Software

BMC Software

BMC Software, Inc. is a multinational corporation specializing in Business Service Management software, with record annual revenue in fiscal 2009 of $1.87 billion...

 and open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 tools.

The JAMS Scheduler uses a master/agent configuration and automates application processes on a variety of operating systems and architectures. It specializes in the Windows space, but was originally developed for OpenVMS

OpenVMS

OpenVMS , previously known as VAX-11/VMS, VAX/VMS or VMS, is a computer server operating system that runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium-based families of computers. Contrary to what its name suggests, OpenVMS is not open source software; however, the source listings are available for purchase...

 users. The vendor claims over 700 customers worldwide. JAMS offers tight integration with Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 scripting environment Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on top of, and integrated with the .NET Framework...

, and they are a Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 partner.

Recent

JAMS has been favorably compared to some of the larger players, namely BMC Control-M, CA Austosys, and Tidal Enterprise Scheduler in the job scheduling arena.

SystemiNetwork.com featured the JAMS Scheduler in a brief note announcing the release of version 4.8 of the software and its improved file-transfer capabilities.

The JAMS Scheduler was featured in an ITJungle article, JAMS Brings Scheduling and File Transfer Capabilities to i OS.. This article describes the difficulties faced by AS/400 and System i users in automating file transfers and batch scheduling, and suggests that JAMS is worth investigation.

In a Powerscripting Podcast

Podcast

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from March 2008 , JAMS was featured as a useful tool that users of Windows PowerShell can leverage to automate processes.