OpCon vs Redwood RunMyJobs comparison

SMA Technologies and Redwood Software are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. SMA Technologies is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.5, while Redwood Software is ranked #18. SMA Technologies holds a 2.4% mindshare in WA, compared to Redwood Software’s 3.8% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of SMA Technologies 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 Feb 8, 2026

OpCon and Redwood RunMyJobs provide robust solutions in the automation market. OpCon has a particular advantage in the credit union sector through its Corelation KeyStone integration, while Redwood RunMyJobs holds its ground with strong cloud integration capabilities and effective error handling.

Features: OpCon is notable for its auto-scheduling capability, allowing for seven days in advance scheduling, integration with Corelation KeyStone, and a self-service solution manager that enables staff to execute complex automation without direct access to the system. Redwood RunMyJobs offers powerful error-handling, real-time monitoring, and seamless integration with various cloud platforms, all of which enhance its task scheduling and recovery features.

Room for Improvement: OpCon could improve user authorization, graphical interface, and reduce the complexity of training new staff due to its steep learning curve. Redwood RunMyJobs would benefit from enhanced third-party integration, a more streamlined UI, and incorporating machine learning for better process automation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpCon's primary on-premises deployment benefits from highly rated support, although users report a learning curve with initial deployment. Redwood RunMyJobs provides deployment flexibility across cloud and hybrid environments, with positive feedback on their support services despite occasional slow responses affecting deployment efficiency.

Pricing and ROI: OpCon offers varied pricing with multiple licensing options, considered cost-effective against employee costs, though recent pricing changes may increase expenses. Redwood RunMyJobs is seen as cost-efficient, especially for organizations focused on scalability, despite some users finding initial setup costs high. Both systems deliver strong ROI through process automation and reduced manual operation time.

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of JAMS is 3.1%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpCon is 2.4%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Redwood RunMyJobs is 3.8%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
JAMS	3.1%
OpCon	2.4%
Redwood RunMyJobs	3.8%
Other	90.7%

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Featured Reviews

Latha Viswanathan

Principal Data Base And Infrastructure Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees

Automation has replaced nightly monitoring and delivers reliable, unified job scheduling

We have really enjoyed working with JAMS in terms of notifications, alerts, and streamlining. There used to be a process with Automate, which is another product from Fortra, but even before that, the other division of the company that we were merging with had a tool that was built in-house called a file handler or file distributor. It was an in-house developed tool, but it was not as streamlined or as efficient as JAMS is. We literally had to have a dedicated nighttime person monitoring. Although we are 24/7, the divisions of the company that we were using JAMS for have been small scale. While we have automated it, we have streamlined it in such a way that notifications go out and alerts go out, but if there is anything, then we get paged and alerted, and if anything needs to happen at midnight, we can wake up. On the other hand, with the tool I mentioned, the file handler and distributor, we used to have a dedicated nighttime person that had to be sitting and monitoring it to see when a file arrived, whether it met the conditions, and then execute the next particular job. By using JAMS, we have gained a lot more efficiencies in terms of all of those to streamline it, and there is no necessary need for having an overnight engineer just keeping an eye on all of this.

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Jose Rivera Hernandez

Senior VP of Technology at Triangle Credit Union

Helps automate all kinds of jobs and it's worth the price because it saves a lot of time and money

One problem that I had with them when we got SMA Technologies is that sometimes the jobs fail, but they automatically restart. SMA Technologies automatically gets a notification that the job has failed, and they restart it on their end, so now, we have the job restarting twice. There were times when we came into the office in the morning, and we had two files because the job ran twice. I do not know if the system can prevent a job from running the second time. If a job has run successfully, or it is running, it should not run again.

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MaheshKumar6

Senior Analyst at Electronics For Imaging, Inc

Future-proof and powerful with great support

Improvements include: 1) Cost of the Software. Redwood is more expensive than most of the other Automation Software available today; they could make it budget-friendly. 2) It has limited reporting features. Some basic reporting features are missing. 3) There is no option to extract data in Excel. This feature could help in finding errors in the data. 4) Integration with ServiceNow is not supported. 5) The cloud platform compatibility is not up to the mark. 6) Security standards need to be improved. 7) Handling failure is not great; the workflow stops when a job fails and human intervention is required. 8) Configuration and set-up are difficult for someone with less coding knowledge. 9) They need to provide more documentation to assist new users.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Previously, we manually managed file transfers by writing our scripts. The automated MFT feature is great for me and the company. It helps us know where the files are going and enables us to track errors if anything fails. It also makes the connection seamless for third-party vendors."

"By using JAMS, my company has seen benefits such as getting to know about Google products and the latest features that are newly launched by Google, and they help me in building my projects portfolio and engaging with knowledge."

"JAMS gives operations teams a single place to manage, monitor, and track job execution, which from my perspective as a developer improves coordination between teams because everyone has visibility into the status of critical workloads and simplifies troubleshooting since job history, execution status, and other relevant information are all easily accessible, ensuring that business-critical processes are executed consistently and reliably across the organization."

"The most valuable feature for us is that it's DR-ready. With respect to disaster recovery, it has the built-in capability for failover to our DR site. If all of the required ports are open, it can be done seamlessly."

"The built-in triggers are great."

"The user-friendly and adaptable scheduler allows us to manage various scheduling scenarios."

"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."

"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."

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"The stability of this solution is awesome. It's the only product I've ever seen that you can actually build to fix itself if it has a problem. You'll build something and, if you find an issue, you can say, 'Hey, if this happens again, do this to correct it.'"

"It has streamlined operations, specifically with the timing of our processes. We don't have to worry about if things are going to run at a certain time. The automation allows us to say, "Okay, we want this to run at this time, and this to not run until that is done." So, it has really streamlined the accuracy and timeline of when jobs run throughout the day."

"We have absolutely seen ROI and it's probably the most critical system to our organization, after Active Directory and email."

"I find OpCon's ability to monitor files and folders, and its integration with other software to be the most valuable."

"File Watcher can run jobs when files are made available in a folder."

"The solution has definitely streamlined our operations and makes onboarding of new applications very easy, and OpCon has most certainly freed up some 50 to 75 employees to do more meaningful work as a result of automation."

"It allows us to organize everything into a process flow throughout the day for our different tasks that we have to run. So, it keeps everything organized. It is easy to monitor and adjust, if we need to."

"The automation of processes has taken tasks that would have been done manually by somebody and moved them to a platform without us having to think about them."

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"This tool helps us to monitor the job related to SAP modules."

"REL expressions are quite helpful for setting up the preconditions."

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

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

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

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

"Redwood is of value to our organization due to of its ease of use and the ability to automate and orchestrate any platform that we utilize today."

"One of Redwood Software's features that I liked was its event-driven automation, which allows IT teams to respond to real-time events, alerts, and notifications from numerous systems."

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Cons

"The cost has definitely gone up tremendously. That is where I do know, as much as the feature sets are there, and if the newly acquired company is going to be doing a pushback, they might just say, 'Do we still need to pay this much? Or at that point, should we look into an alternative?'"

"All my machines at work are Macs. JAMS client is a Windows-based thing. It is all built on .NET, which makes perfect sense. However, that means in order for me to access it, I need to connect to a VPN, then log onto one of our Azure VMs in order to access the JAMS client. This is fine, but if for some reason I am unable to do so, it would be nice to be able to have a web-based JAMS client that has all the exact same functionality in it. There are probably a whole bunch of disadvantages that you would get with that as well, but that is definitely something that would make life easier in a few cases."

"I want JAMS to implement a global search function."

"It does validations when you try to delete an object and if there are any dependencies in place, the deletion process will not proceed... there is no information provided as to what it was that caused the validation to fail... it's quite a tedious process to find which object is getting in the way."

"Improvements could be made in the service desk's knowledge and communication skills among engineers to better address customer needs and ensure issues are fully resolved."

"The UI is completely unintuitive. We had to go and open up a support ticket with JAMS just to get something back."

"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."

"The ACL or access permission area needs to be improved. When it comes to defining and providing security permissions, it's a bit confusing if you are new to JAMS. JAMS needs to improve the features for security access or permissions."

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"I would like to have an interface with PowerShell. PowerShell has a lot of functionality. We use it a lot because we're a Windows shop. Having a built-in tool or interface with PowerShell would go a long way."

"The calendar interface and the frequency interface is a very powerful, yet complex, section of OpCon in which all our staff have made mistakes."

"The image-scanning features need improvement."

"The biggest area where there is room for improvement would be integration with their code. They've got a function for embedded scripts and it would be nice if that worked with a code or versioning management system, like GitLab."

"We sometimes have a large number of jobs on the SQL Server and we can experience a very light lag in job starts. The lag can be a few seconds. It's never more than one minute, but sometimes we can experience some lags."

"We have not explored the possibility, but one of the areas for improvement would be more integration into Active Directory, to where it could do the creation of user accounts and the additional work to integrate third-party systems into payroll systems."

"Upgrading to newer versions remains complex."

"One problem that I had with them when we got SMA Technologies is that sometimes the jobs fail, but they automatically restart. SMA Technologies automatically gets a notification that the job has failed, and they restart it on their end, so now, we have the job restarting twice. There were times when we came into the office in the morning, and we had two files because the job ran twice."

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"We need the ability to pull data into an Excel format."

"The product can improve customer service."

"It has limited reporting features; some basic reporting features are missing."

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

"Redwood RunMyJobs should add more good features."

"The addition of machine learning capabilities could help Redwood Workload Automation Software better predict job and workflow performance, detect anomalies, and optimize operations based on historical data."

"We need the automatic creation of incidents for failed jobs."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our licensing is pretty cheap because we have a state solution. So, we pay only $1,000 a year."

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

"The product is reasonably priced, and we don't have any add-ons."

"For what it does, the product is priced very well."

"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."

"The pricing is very fair. We have seen very minimal to no price increases over the years. We are not banging down the door of support all the time either. I would imagine if we were a company that submitted a dozen support tickets a week for the last nine years, then it might be a little different because we would be eating up everybody's time. However, for what we get out of it, the pricing is extremely fair. Back when we were originally looking and brought in JAMS, we were looking at a couple of the other competitive products that were in this space, but the pricing from JAMS was far and away better than what the other competitors could offer for the same functionality."

"The product is reasonably priced, and we don't have any add-ons."

"I haven't been involved in the financial side for several years, but we buy one host and unlimited agents, and we get a reasonable price for that. We're happy with the amount we pay and the scalability it provides."

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"The purchasing price was in the $30,000 or $40,000 range, but I don't remember how much of that was licensing or installation and how it was broken out."

"Yearly, it's around $30,000."

"While the base pricing is reasonable, the à la carte options are making the overall cost more complicated and potentially problematic."

"Our annual maintenance costs are $45,000. The initial cost is separate."

"I believe our cost is about $150,000 annually."

"It is at a decent price for the work that it does for us."

"It's definitely worth the cost."

"We currently renewed with one of their new technology bundles. It's around $36,000 annually. We run a query of our SQL in our SQL database to see how many jobs we run. They're charging us per usage and whatever add-ons you want to use with OpCon."

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"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

16%

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

16%

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	23

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Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	29
Large Enterprise	19

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Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	55

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JAMS?

I was not really involved in the pricing, setup cost, and licensing at that level. I am more involved in the technica...

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What needs improvement with JAMS?

To improve JAMS, it should resolve the issues with the JD Edwards application and the need for the SSH client connect...

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What is your primary use case for JAMS?

My main use case for JAMS is to install, set up, and configure for customers working with JD Edwards application. A s...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpCon?

I am the one who signs the contract. In the beginning, when I started working here, it seemed very expensive, but aft...

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One problem that I had with them when we got SMA Technologies is that sometimes the jobs fail, but they automatically...

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In this credit union, we use OpCon for automation. That is the main use of it. We have over 3,000 jobs and schedules ...

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Overview

JAMS is an automation orchestration and job scheduling solution that runs, monitors, and manages critical IT processes from a single console, from simple batch jobs to complex, cross-platform workflows. JAMS automates jobs across Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM i, z/OS, and OpenVMS, with native integrations for the databases, BI tools, and ERP systems already running your business, including SQL Server and SAP. Jobs run on any schedule or trigger off other events, and dependency management keeps multi-step workflows in the right order.

Every job is centrally monitored, with notifications on success or failure and an audit trail of every execution. Built-in conversion tools migrate existing jobs from Windows Task Scheduler, SQL Agent, or Cron without rebuilding them, and JAMS replaces homegrown, single-platform scripts with one centrally managed system.

JAMS includes two AI capabilities at no additional cost. JAX is an AI agent built into the JAMS Web Client. Ask it a question in plain language, and it finds a job, troubleshoots a failure, or looks up how to do something, grounded in JAMS documentation, not general AI guesswork. It acts only when asked, and every change waits for your approval. JAMS MCP brings JAMS into the AI coding tools teams already use, including Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Desktop.

Both run inside the customer's network with the signed-in user's permissions and no elevated AI account, and every action, AI-driven or not, lands in the same audit trail as everything else in JAMS.

For teams managing thousands of jobs across SQL Server, ADF, Airflow, SAP, JDE, and Banner, this cuts tribal knowledge and middle-of-the-night troubleshooting. Knowledge that once lived in one person's head becomes something any team member can ask about directly.

The AI lives in the product, not in the support queue. Support is staffed by humans JAMS will never outsource, based in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. New tickets go to long-tenured engineers, and every JAMS customer has the CEO's cell phone number.

JAMS' mission is to reduce the operational burden of critical automation, so teams spend more time on the work automation was meant to free them for.

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OpCon empowers organizations with its extensive automation capabilities and seamless integrations, particularly appreciated in financial institutions for managing and optimizing batch processes and operational tasks across platforms such as core systems, Windows, and the cloud.

OpCon offers reliable scheduling and management of workloads, crucial for reducing manual interventions and errors. Its robust automation and integration features with systems like Corelation KeyStone and Symitar support efficient operations, contributing to significant time savings and increased productivity. Users find its ease of use beneficial, although some aspects like web functionalities, integration with third-party systems, and flexibility could improve.

What are key features of OpCon?

Automation Capabilities: Advanced tools for automating diverse tasks and batch processes.
Seamless Integration: Compatible with KeyStone and Symitar, enhancing system functionality.
Self-Service: Enables independent initiation of processes by users.
Scheduling Functionality: Efficiently manages workflows, minimizing manual interventions.

What benefits can users expect?

Time Savings: Streamlines tasks, reducing operational time.
Enhanced Productivity: Increases efficiency across departments by simplifying processes.
Reliability: Delivers dependable automation with minimal errors.
Ease of Use: Simplifies task management with intuitive operations.

In financial institutions, OpCon enhances efficiency by automating batch processing, file transfers, and core processes like reporting and ACH processing. It integrates third-party tools, enabling job scheduling across environments from mainframes to cloud, thereby improving operational performance and reducing manual work.

SMA Technologies

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

LOHR, Carnival Cruise Lines, Herbalife, Digital Federal Credit Union, Synergent, Frandsen Bank & Trust

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