Redwood RunMyJobs vs Tidal by Redwood comparison

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Redwood Software and Tidal Software by Redwood are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. Redwood Software is ranked #18, while Tidal Software by Redwood is ranked #19. Redwood Software holds a 3.5% mindshare in WA, compared to Tidal Software by Redwood’s 3.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Redwood Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Tidal Software by Redwood users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Tidal by Redwood and Redwood RunMyJobs are both competitors in the automation and system integration category. Tidal showcases a broader versatility given its compatibility and robust scheduling features, while Redwood RunMyJobs stands out with its security and cloud integration capabilities.

Features: Tidal by Redwood offers the ability to run a diverse range of scripts and supports event-driven and dependency-focused scheduling. Its integration with SQL Server and ERP platforms makes it versatile. Users find its alerting features and single-pane management valuable. Redwood RunMyJobs excels in event-driven automation and security features, making integration with other software systems seamless. It supports cloud automation and third-party integrations, providing versatility for complex workflows.

Room for Improvement: Tidal by Redwood could enhance its reporting capabilities, user experience, and cloud integration. Users also desire more intuitive navigation and detailed logging features. Redwood RunMyJobs needs improvement in reporting, alert services, and user accessibility. Enhancements like an updated interface, better documentation, and streamlined setup processes would raise user satisfaction.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tidal by Redwood deploys efficiently on-premises and offers hybrid and private cloud options. Customer service is praised for responsiveness and knowledge despite past ownership transitions. Redwood RunMyJobs, with extensive cloud deployment, has positive support feedback, valued for attentiveness and problem-solving capabilities. Both facilitate complex integrations well.

Pricing and ROI: Tidal by Redwood provides a flexible licensing model for cost management and is seen as offering good value due to its capabilities. Redwood RunMyJobs, though with a higher initial setup cost, offers a cost-effective pricing structure especially suited for smaller organizations. Both enhance productivity and reduce manual effort, promising positive ROI.

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JAMS Scheduler

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of JAMS Scheduler is 3.4%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Redwood RunMyJobs is 3.5%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tidal by Redwood is 3.4%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
JAMS Scheduler	3.4%
Redwood RunMyJobs	3.5%
Tidal by Redwood	3.4%
Other	89.7%

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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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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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Jim Gillingham

Batch Production Manager at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

Its versatility, ease of use, scalability, and cost-effectiveness make it a 10/10 and the best of the breed

The company is not really big. One of the areas that they are working on is improving the process of migrating jobs from the lower environment to the upper environment. They had used a tool called Transporter, which was a little difficult to use, but they've now released a new tool in August, which I've not yet used, to do that. It's probably called Repository or something like that, but it's a tool for migrating jobs from the lower environment to the upper environment. That's where they needed to improve, and it looks like they may have, but I haven't tried the tool yet. They can do better reporting in terms of production statistics reporting.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"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."

"The code-driven automation for more complex scheduling requirements frees up time because it's really easy to use... It's almost like a stand-alone software that we can't live without."

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

"JAMS has improved my organization by taking a myriad of manual processes and allowing us to automate them. It enables our folks to focus more on tasks that require their human intelligence and their creativity and less on just mundane tasks. It increases efficiency, accuracy, and consistency."

"Our company is based on data. Everything we do is data-driven, so it has been very valuable having one place where we can process all of the data and do batch schedules with chunks of data."

"JAMS Scheduler helps centralize the management of jobs across all platforms and applications, which is very important for our organization because it has improved scalability and reduced costs."

"We also use the solution’s Interactive Agents. If we need to push something to our dealer portal, we can just drop a file in a folder and it goes. Running interactive tasks helps me users focus on business processes since I don’t have to take care of running the jobs manually."

"While I appreciate the other features, the agent stands out for its ease of installation and configuration for JAMS monitoring."

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"In Redwood Automation, we can easily fetch the daily reports from the system as per the client's requirement and track the status of every job which is running, aborted, or canceled."

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

"It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics."

"Its monitoring and alerting features are what I found the most valuable."

"It conjures simplicity from the depths of complexity, effortlessly shouldering burdensome workloads."

"Installing and configuring Redwood agents are easy, and scheduling jobs on Redwood helps in triggering the batches as per business requirements."

"This program works with every browser."

"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."

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"The versatility of being able to run on many different types of servers is valuable. There is also a versatility of different services that you could run jobs on. It's highly versatile. You can run a lot of different types of scripts on a lot of different types of servers. It interfaces with all of them."

"The core of the product is great and I would certainly recommend it."

"Especially in the newer versions of Tidal, the segmentation of user permissions enables us to give people operator permissions for their jobs, to rerun jobs, but view-only for other groups' jobs. We're able to keep people from hurting themselves or other groups accidentally. The permissioning is really good."

"We had a number of different schedulers in this organization and we've been porting everything that was running out of these other, unrelated schedulers into this scheduler. That has afforded us the ability to set up direct dependencies between processes that couldn't talk to one another before. Over the 15 years, we've definitely gained a lot from that. What had been manual controls have become automated controls..."

"We use the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads. The solution’s ability to manage and monitor these workloads is very easy and accurate. We have file dependencies for running jobs. The job does not start until a file exists on a completely different server, then where the job will run. So, it is cross systems."

"With other tools, you do not have the ability to schedule jobs on their own. You need to create a group and then assign everything to that group. Only then will the job be able to execute. In Tidal, you can schedule a single job and there is no need to create a group. That's what I like the most."

"Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution."

"From a management standpoint, when using the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads, I've never had a problem with the application. It's very interactive, especially with the different security levels that they offer."

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Cons

"For the most part, JAMS is very stable. Occasionally, if you leave multiple windows open over a period of time, it is necessary to end that task and restart."

"For scalability, I would rate it as seven because when we have a huge volume, sometimes the tool is not so responsive."

"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."

"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?'"

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

"With no programming experience, I find JAMS code-driven automation challenging due to the required PowerShell scripting."

"I would enhance the compatibility feature of JAMS because sometimes when the server is under high load, it does not inform us and we cannot get answers."

"Fortra is getting much better with documentation and examples, but there is still room for improvement."

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"Currently, our developers aren't able to access their own objects in the user acceptance testing server and production system server as they are assigned the developer access role, which is kind of a solid role, and no changes or additions can be made to it."

"It lacks some of the common reporting features. It would be helpful to have it as part of the solution."

"Redwood Software has a high price tag, especially for small and medium-sized businesses that might not have the funds to engage in a complete automation system."

"Redwood automation software could be made more user-friendly and intuitive, making chores and automation processes easier for users to complete."

"The product can improve customer service."

"I have not noted any downsides."

"Adding machine learning and AI capabilities would enable Redwood to automate more complex business processes and tasks."

"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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"There is, unfortunately, no way to extract that into an actual output email or failure email."

"I don't know if Tidal wants to get into the business of monitoring long-running jobs, but that could be a feature for the future: a job launching and monitoring tool. Using Tidal for monitoring doesn't seem like a good fit, but if they could offer something that did that as an add-on or include it, it might be helpful."

"The solution needs more advanced reporting and data visualization capabilities to enable deeper analysis of job performance and trends."

"My complaint about their pricing model is that every year or every time technology changes or somebody has a new requirement, it usually means that I can schedule that with Tidal, but I would need another adapter. So, every time there is a change, I need a different adapter that I don't have. That's why it is harder to plan for Tidal growth because you have to buy a new adapter every time."

"I would like more involvement with the cloud."

"The UI might have the potential to provide a more polished and user-centric encounter, promoting seamless engagements and simplifying the navigation process for individuals interacting with the software."

"The other thing is that the performance of the web interface has not been great; the web interface can be sluggish at times and we've got to recycle it to get it to be more responsive."

"I'm still hoping with Explorer to be able to see end-to-end job streams. That's not really something that's easy to see today in the web client. However, I haven't worked with Explorer yet. One of the things that we have found frustrating is not being able to see an end-to-end job stream across multiple applications within Tidal. We use jobs for that right now, but I have high hopes that we'll be able to see that in Explorer."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is reasonable."

"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."

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

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

"It's certainly a lot cheaper than Tivoli and Control-M. In comparison to them, you get a lot more bang for your buck. You get pretty much the whole functionality and more, in some cases, when compared to Control-M, but at a fraction of the price."

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

"The pricing of JAMS has not been an issue for us, as it has allowed us to save time."

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

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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."

"BMC is really expensive. The other solutions are about the same price. I think Tidal is even cheaper than the others, such as CA, Stonebranch, and JAMS."

"They work with you on licensing. So, it has been great. Everybody has different licensing, but I've had good luck with the licensing. They've been very accommodating. You basically need to buy a license for each physical server, but then you're allowed an unlimited number of virtual servers."

"There are project, system, and server costs. Some of the things that they are doing is introducing new products. They are introducing what they call their Repository, which is a way for you to move a job. That doesn't cost anything to us, because it is reusing a tool called Transporter. The repository is the successor to Transporter, so we already own it and are sort of grandfathered in. But that new product requires a server and database, so now we have to go out and get a server and database. So, there is a cost there."

"The solution enables admins and users to see the information relevant to them, but this is bundled as an add-on that we would have to pay for."

"This solution is a bit expensive in the current world where everybody is trying to cut down on certain things."

"The price is reasonable in terms of the product’s functionality."

"The new prices that we've received seem reasonable and comparable to the marketplace."

"There have been pricing increases, but with the reduction that our company obtained from Tidal this year, the pricing has become very acceptable for this type of product."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

16%

Construction Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Construction Company

11%

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Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	16
Large Enterprise	24

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Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	55

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Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	38

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

Tidal Workload Automation, Cisco Workload Automation, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler

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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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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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Tidal Software is a leading provider of enterprise workload automation solutions that orchestrate the execution of complex workflows across systems, applications and IT environments. With a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, Tidal optimizes mission-critical business processes, increases IT cost efficiencies and satisfies legal and regulatory compliance requirements. Hundreds of customers around the world count on Tidal for modernizing their workload automation and driving their digital transformation. Tidal Software is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Houston, London, Minsk, Belarus and Chennai, India. For more information, visit tidalsoftware.com.

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