IBM Workload Automation vs Redwood RunMyJobs comparison

IBM and Redwood Software are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. IBM is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while Redwood Software is ranked #16. IBM holds a 4.5% mindshare in WA, compared to Redwood Software’s 7.0% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Redwood Software users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

We performed a comparison between IBM Workload Automation and Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

Features: IBM Workload Automation provides client-driven feature development, multi-node job triggering, and easy batch application tracking. Redwood Software stands out with its powerful job definition capabilities, simplified job management, error-handling, and integration with multiple systems.

The review highlights areas where IBM Workload Automation can improve, such as performance, navigation, job dependencies, daily schedule refreshes, stability, reporting visibility, and integration with new technologies. Redwood can enhance its reporting features, fix minor issues, improve monitoring and alert service, add role-based access, enhance metrics explorer, incorporate machine learning and AI capabilities, and provide more robust reporting and analytics capabilities.

Service and Support: Customers have praised IBM Workload Automation's technical support, particularly their lab advocacy program for code support. However, some challenges exist in pinpointing the origin of specific issues. Redwood has generally received positive feedback regarding their support, although there is room for improvement.

Ease of Deployment: IBM Workload Automation's initial setup can be difficult for those who are not familiar with IBM tools or application development. However, with help from an IBM engineer or vendor, the process becomes relatively easy. The initial setup for Redwood Software is considered complex and time-consuming due to the large number of jobs and the complexity of the existing system.

Pricing: IBM Workload Automation's setup cost is determined by the customer's contract and can differ based on the number of agents installed. Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has a pricing model that is based on the number of job executions. Users appreciate Redwood's pricing as it is cost-effective and beneficial for trying out new platforms. Furthermore, Redwood's setup cost and pricing are notably lower compared to competitors such as Control-M and UC4.

ROI: It is difficult to assess the ROI of IBM Workload Automation. However, Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has demonstrated positive outcomes with a 10% return on investment.

Comparison Results: IBM Workload Automation is the preferred product compared to Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition. Users appreciate IBM's ability to incorporate requested features based on client voting, as well as its capability to trigger jobs in multiple nodes and pre-schedule them.

To learn more, read our detailed IBM Workload Automation vs. Redwood RunMyJobs Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of JAMS is 2.8%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Workload Automation is 4.5%, down from 7.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Redwood RunMyJobs is 7.0%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
JAMS	2.8%
IBM Workload Automation	4.5%
Redwood RunMyJobs	7.0%
Other	85.7%

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reviewer2770605

Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Has streamlined complex job scheduling across scripting languages while reducing manual effort

JAMS could be improved with a web client that is accessible and as fast as a normal website, eliminating the need to RDP to the servers to access the JAMS client. A functionality running on the JAMS server to continuously check the JAMS agents would ensure they are working properly. If an agent is not responding, a feature to restart the service from the job server machine would be beneficial. The upgrade process, particularly when switching from V6 to V7, could be clearer in terms of documentation, ideally with screenshots showing exactly what needs to be done on each screen.

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reviewer2701716

Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dynamic workload balancing facilitates efficient job scheduling and ensures continuity with a master-slave setup

One valuable feature of IBM Workload Automation is the ability to combine different applications and platforms to organize jobs together, creating dependencies. It's akin to an orchestra. Another feature is dynamic workload balancing, which I find enhances efficiency by automating job setup to run daily. Moreover, having a backup setup allows for immediate recovery if the master setup fails.

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reviewer2138001

Sr. Demantra consultant at Capgemini

Easy to organize, monitor, and control all jobs

The most valuable aspects of the solution are: 1. The ability to schedule tasks and jobs on multiple platforms (SAP and Non-SAP) and monitor the jobs. 2. Its ability to organize, monitor, control, and schedule all jobs and activities. 3. Redwood is a more powerful tool and provision to automate any tasks/jobs than any other tool in Batch scheduling (automatic and other tools). 4. It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics. 5. It has an alert mechanism feature; if any job fails, it triggers notifications. 6. Different security functionality for restricting users to certain functions (read/write). 7. Cost Reduction, complete automation, optimized resource usage, and full audit trail. 8. Vendor support. 9. Logging and statistics.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It's worth its weight in gold and we cannot get rid of it now."

"The fact that we no longer need to use Excel spreadsheets is huge. Before JAMS, every group was keeping track of their own batch jobs. Nobody really knew what the other jobs were. So, if jobs failed, other groups wouldn't necessarily know. With JAMS, everything is done through a single scheduler. You can choose who to notify."

"The feature or capability to import a job is most valuable. We can import an existing job from different platforms, and all the configurations get migrated as well without modifying the code, job schedule, etc."

"JAMS is easier to use and cheaper than our previous solution. The installation is more straightforward, and JAMS has a graphical user interface, so it's more accessible."

"The most valuable feature is the easily accessible data in the database because we run a lot of SQL scripting against the database."

"It's a full-featured job scheduling tool. The part that I liked the best was the support team. This tool was new, and we were all learning it and setting up the different jobs that were complex in nature. Their support team was very responsive in helping us out through the setup and resolving the issues. They have been incredibly awesome."

"Being able to create a series of chained jobs, which are basically linked jobs is valuable."

"The alerting in it is really targeted... you can set specific alerting so that if jobs in a given folder fail, certain people are alerted. You can also set security at the folder level, so that only people in those areas can go set them. That means that the alerting and security can be set at a very granular level."

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"IBM Workload Automation provides good performance and monitoring."

"The most valuable feature of IBM Workload Automation is its holistic view, which helps me find technical solutions quickly. For instance, if a customer has an issue completing their workload within a specific time frame, the tool provides enough information to identify and resolve the issue. One of the main challenges is dealing with data infrastructure problems and pending updates. Workload Automation helps me leverage current AI capabilities to recommend architectural updates to avoid these issues. It also allows me to balance CPU usage effectively, ensuring service level agreements are met. The interface is user-friendly and facilitates this process smoothly."

"As an enterprise scheduler, I have more control over most of the enterprise applications to which it is connected."

"This solution has a request feature where users can request the added features they need to have developed. Based on client voting for those features, these are developed and released."

"Technical support from IBM is very good."

"The TWS GUI was an excellent feature."

"I have supported this product in literally 100s of different environments and its unmatched in its ability to scale to any size."

"It has definitely improved many different processes in our organization."

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"The best feature I love about Redwood is the real-time event monitoring and alerting."

"We can create and test micro-workflows to find defects sooner."

"Redwood is more flexible and we can schedule the tasks based on different time zones."

"Redwood RunMyJobs has been very useful for job scheduling and checking and monitoring jobs."

"Error handling and the recovery feature ensure that my job processes are not stopped if any error occurs."

"This product is simple and easy to use."

"Redwood helps us to schedule batch jobs on a daily, weekly, and yearly basis to keep the business running smoothly."

"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."

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Cons

"The client is horrible. Every time JAMS puts out a survey on what they can improve, I always say, "The client: When you are setting up jobs, it is quite horrible." The response has been, "Well, we are just using the Windows foundation," and I am like, "Why isn't it only your product?" We can get around it now that we know its quirks, but it is not the most user-friendly of tools out there. The UI is completely unintuitive. We had to go and open up a support ticket with JAMS just to get something back. It is not user-friendly at all."

"The documentation is not super... It's not as quick and slick as I'd like it to be."

"JAMS could be improved with a web client that is accessible and as fast as a normal website, eliminating the need to RDP to the servers to access the JAMS client."

"The search capability needs to be improved because when we try to search for a job, it's hard to do."

"As an admin, I would like to have a web-based GUI instead of a client application that we have to install on our PCs."

"I would like to see the ability to interface with Microsoft group-managed service accounts, but they're still in the research phase. They need to ensure everything's legit and safe. The report designer and dashboards could also be improved. We're running 7.3, so I don't know if they have updated the reporting in 7.5, but I think the reports and dashboards could be better."

"I'm not sure if they have fixed it in a newer version, but there is no global search in the version I have. If I have multiple sub-folders that are named for business units, like HR or IT, and I have to search for a job, I cannot search from the top. I have to go to the HR folder to search for a particular job, or to the IT folder."

"The only thing that they could improve on is the fact that they don't have a browser version of JAMS. They've got all the bits and pieces there if you want to build your own web version of it. It does come with a web client, but it's pretty clunky. They could improve on that."

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"One area of improvement is the user interface. While it is extremely functional, it’s not very user friendly and it’s difficult to visualize the flow of a complicated job schedule."

"Technical support is 4/10."

"I would like to be able to access the return value or result from one job, in the following job."

"It should support other schedulers that aren't IBM products."

"A few things are missing but I can manage without them, such as a cross-reference report."

"The solution's installation could be improved because the customers have to do it all the time."

"IBM needs to move away from its native terminology and adopt a more cloud-centric approach."

"8.5.1 is not stable, we've since moved to 8.6 but the front-end GUI was very slow."

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"The price wise, it is not affordable. When we compare with other industry leading softwares and even the same scale, there are certain softwares that can compete with Redwood, but Redwood is very highly paced.So it is more SAP friendly, I would say, at this point. Since it was owned by SAP for very long time, they have made it SAP friendly. But if you look at the tool as a enterprise tool. Like, in general, it is not really that great as a tool. So you can you have better options when you couple it with SAP. But if you would like to control your enterprise level applications, anything after that, like, Azure AWS and things like that Oracle."

"The only issue at first was that we had to manually delete or raise the event in order to run some of the events and wait for jobs, even if the file was kept at the correct AL11 position."

"I have not noted any downsides."

"The product can improve customer service."

"We'd like to see an integration with ServiceNow to raise the tickets/incidents in ServiceNow."

"The documentation for this product is limited, which can be improved in the future."

"The reports are downloaded in .CAR file format, which makes it difficult to convert to an Excel file."

"The user interface of Redwood can be improved a bit to make it more user-friendly and interesting."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Fortra's JAMS pricing structure has deteriorated significantly since its acquisition by Fortra."

"JAMS is priced competitively compared to similar solutions and offers flexible licensing options to cater to user needs."

"The licensing model for JAMS is straightforward and based on the number of agents, not the number of jobs you run. It's cheap and fairly simple."

"JAMS is relatively inexpensive, with additional costs only incurred for tags, other services, and optional support renewals."

"It's expensive, to be honest, but it does the job."

"It was $10,000 for the first year. Then, there is a maintenance cost for licensing every year that we get billed $5,000 for every year."

"All licensing models are a little overpriced, but JAMS offers a good value, especially given their support response times and ability to handle unforeseen issues like the SFTP transfers. I hope to find more use cases to get a better bang for our buck."

"In the end, you'll find that it's really worth the price. There is some sticker shock, but it's worth every dime."

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"Pricing depends on the number of agents that you install."

"The contract is with the customer with whom we are working, so IBM is not directly involved in this."

"The solution's pricing is affordable."

"The solution is a little bit expensive."

"We transitioned from a server license to per job license, and that saved us a lot money."

"To my knowledge, IWA is the only WLA product that will provide "parallel tracking" capability to assist in upgrading from one platform to IWA."

"It is about one-third of the cost of a controller."

"It initially surprised me because we went from an application that was priced by connection to agents/the number of agents to an application that was priced based on the number of job executions. At that time, many of the products we looked at were also priced on job execution. That seems to be more common in the business or in the vendors that provide solutions out there, but that was probably our biggest difference."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

25%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Performing Arts

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	19

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	29

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Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	55

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about JAMS?

I find the historical tracking feature of JAMS invaluable for reviewing past events.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JAMS?

My thoughts on the pricing of JAMS are that I won't say it is cheap, but it is cost-efficient, and that should be acc...

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What needs improvement with JAMS?

An area that has room for improvement is related to the AWS RDS and database part, where they said that is in progres...

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What needs improvement with IBM Workload Automation?

IBM Workload Automation could be improved by reducing its cost. The maintenance charges have increased significantly,...

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What is your primary use case for IBM Workload Automation?

We use IBM Workload Automation ( /products/ibm-workload-automation-reviews ) as a scheduler. We install agents on the...

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What advice do you have for others considering IBM Workload Automation?

I recommend IBM Workload Automation as it's a well-established and stable product. However, the cost is a concern. Th...

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Comparisons

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Control-M vs Redwood RunMyJobs

Compared 30% of the time

Automic Automation vs Redwood RunMyJobs

Compared 17% of the time

Stonebranch vs Redwood RunMyJobs

Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, IBM TWS

Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition, Redwood Business Process Automation - Workload Edition, RunMyJobs, Redwood RunMyJobs

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Overview

JAMS is an automation and job scheduling solution designed for workflow optimization, catering to businesses large and small with flexible licensing and integration options.

Offering both Core and Advanced packages, JAMS supports a range of environments from small teams to large-scale operations. Its standout features include integration with platforms like PowerShell, SQL, and SAP, coupled with capabilities such as dependency management and natural language scheduling. JAMS simplifies job management, centralizes workflows, and boosts productivity with its robust automation features. Customizable workflows and insightful logging make it adaptable for diverse needs, supported by responsive customer service ensuring seamless operations.

What are JAMS's key features?

Automation & Scheduling: Flexible automation helps manage complex job schedules efficiently.
Integration: Connects seamlessly with platforms like SQL Server, SAP, and Python for diverse applications.
Centralized Job Management: A unified interface for handling thousands of jobs daily.
Dependency Management: Supports complex workflows with efficient dependency tracking.
Insightful Logging: Provides detailed logs and notifications for precise task execution.

What benefits should users look for in JAMS reviews?

Enhanced Productivity: Automates repetitive tasks, freeing up resources for strategic initiatives.
Scalability: Flexible licensing models grow with business size and needs.
Efficient Workflow Automation: Streamlines job orchestration across environments.
Responsive Support: Helps ensure smooth operations with quick troubleshooting.

In industries, JAMS is employed for automating workflows and managing batch jobs. Organizations utilize it for SSIS, SQL Server tasks, file transfers, and integrating with vendor systems, achieving efficient file automation and data management. Scheduler enables precise execution of thousands of tasks daily, enhancing operational efficiency.

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IBM Workload Automation streamlines scheduling with automation and dynamic workload balancing. It integrates multiple platforms, offering efficient management across diverse systems, enhancing operational productivity.

IBM Workload Automation provides end-to-end control in managing tasks across varied platforms, supporting event-based scheduling and real-time updates. Its intuitive GUI allows seamless scripting and monitoring, facilitating integration with applications like SAP and Oracle. The inclusion of FTA agents ensures efficient local dependency management, while offering versatile scheduling options. Its capability to provide a comprehensive view, manage CPU usage, and meet service level agreements positions it as a valuable tool for large-scale operations.

What are the most important features?

Automation with Dependencies: Allows integration of complex tasks and workflows across multiple platforms.
Dynamic Workload Balancing: Ensures optimal resource utilization by adapting to changing demands.
Event-Based Scheduling: Initiates processes based on real-time events for timely task execution.
Real-Time Updates: Keeps users informed with instantaneous status changes and alerts.
User-Friendly GUI: Facilitates custom scripting and monitoring with ease.
Application Integration: Supports seamless connectivity with SAP, Oracle, and more.
FTA Agents: Efficiently handle local dependency resolution for consistent workflow operation.

What benefits or ROI should users look for in reviews?

Operational Efficiency: Streamlines workload management and reduces manual intervention.
Improved Resource Management: Balances CPU usage and avoids bottlenecks.
Enhanced SLA Compliance: Assures adherence to service level agreements, boosting reliability.
Scalability: Supports expanding operations with robust scheduling capabilities.
Integration Flexibility: Adapts to evolving technological landscapes with ease.

Industries such as government, banking, and large enterprises implement IBM Workload Automation for automated scheduling, workload balancing, and batch processing. It assists in migrating from legacy systems to web-based services, integrating with numerous applications, and managing extensive daily job lists. Key functions include offshore management and backend data collection, crucial for effective resource tracking. This adaptability enables organizations to efficiently support operations while scaling workloads as needed.

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Redwood Software is a prominent player in the enterprise automation space, known for its robust and scalable solutions. It caters to a wide range of industries, offering tools for IT and business process automation. Redwood Software users on PeerSpot often highlights the flexibility and robustness of the solutions. Many users commend the platform for its ability to automate complex and time-consuming processes, which has led to significant time and cost savings. Additionally, the strong customer support and continuous updates are frequently mentioned, indicating a commitment to evolving with customer needs and technological advancements.

Redwood Software offers a holistic suite of automation tools, covering areas such as finance automation, IT process automation, and robotic process automation (RPA). This comprehensive approach ensures that various aspects of business operations can be automated, leading to increased efficiency and reduced manual intervention. Redwood Software is a cloud-native platform, which offers scalability, flexibility, and reduced infrastructure costs.

Redwood Software users shares that its user interfaces is intuitive and this is reducing the learning curve and enabling users across different departments to leverage automation tools effectively. The platform offers sophisticated scheduling and workflow capabilities, allowing for the automation of complex processes.

Redwood Software excels in its ability to integrate seamlessly with a wide range of systems and applications. This integration is key for enterprises that operate in diverse IT environments, ensuring that automation can be implemented across different platforms and applications without compatibility issues. Another important factor for enterprises, is focus on compliance and security, Redwood Software incorporates robust security measures and compliance protocols.

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Sample Customers

Teradata, Arconic, General Dynamics, Yum!, CVS Health, Comcast, Ghiradelli, & Boston’s Children’s Hospital

Standard Life Group, Banca Popolare di Milano, A*STAR, ArcelorMittal Gent

AMD, American Home Shield, Avaya, Burberry, Centrica, City of Dallas, The Container Store, Core & Main, Daikin, Dart Containers, Deere, Energizer, Epson, Halliburton, Keen Foodware, National Gypsum, Rockport Group, Ryder, Technicolor, The University of Michigan, Virgin Money, Whitbread

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