Redwood RunMyJobs vs Tidal by Redwood comparison

Redwood Software and Tidal Software by Redwood are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. Redwood Software is ranked #16, while Tidal Software by Redwood is ranked #19. Redwood Software holds a 7.0% mindshare in WA, compared to Tidal Software by Redwood’s 4.6% 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 Dec 28, 2025

Tidal by Redwood and Redwood RunMyJobs compete in the automation solutions category. Tidal appears to have the advantage due to its advanced scheduling capabilities and flexible licensing, while Redwood RunMyJobs excels in integration options but faces challenges in interface and pricing flexibility.

Features: Tidal offers advanced scheduling, centralized batch process views, and dynamic execution based on dependencies and calendars. Its permissions management allows for precise control over job interactions. Redwood RunMyJobs supports seamless integration with on-premises and cloud platforms, automated upgrades, and robust error-handling capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Tidal requires enhancements in its Transporter tool for job promotion and improved cloud integration. The interface has a steep learning curve, and performance could be optimized. Redwood RunMyJobs needs improvements in its user interface, reporting and analytics, and integration options. Users also find its pricing model less flexible for smaller businesses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tidal primarily supports on-premises installations with some hybrid options. Users report a learning curve but commend the improved support since transitioning from Cisco. Redwood RunMyJobs offers flexibility with hybrid and cloud deployments. Users desire faster support response times and better documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Tidal offers a transparent, flexible licensing model, supporting scalability with predictable costs, leading to favorable ROI through time savings. Redwood RunMyJobs provides cost-effective automation but lacks flexibility in its execution-based pricing, impacting ROI for smaller businesses due to its less adaptable licensing scheme.

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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 Redwood RunMyJobs is 7.0%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tidal by Redwood is 4.6%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
JAMS	2.8%
Redwood RunMyJobs	7.0%
Tidal by Redwood	4.6%
Other	85.6%

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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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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

"The dashboard is intuitive."

"The product is easy to use."

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

"Getting JAMS in place was a game changer for us back then."

"Fortra's JAMS helped us centralize job management across our platforms and applications. This is critical because we schedule tasks across multiple applications and operating systems, using triggers and start dates to coordinate their execution."

"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."

"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."

"It has definitely drastically improved our capabilities to scale our automation. Before JAMS, there were a lot of manual processes. We had a couple of operators who spent all day doing that. A lot of the time with human intervention and human processes, it is as good as the person who may be following a procedure and human error is a big problem."

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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."

"This program works with every browser."

"Moving to a SaaS solution has a lot of advantages."

"It can centralize and support on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments seamlessly."

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

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

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

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

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"It's very user-friendly, intuitive, and robust, and most people, once you give them a quick tutorial on it, can figure out how to use Tidal."

"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..."

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

"We use the solution for cross-platform and cross-application workloads. That's one of the core reasons we chose it. It's one of a few things in the industry that can be used for cross-platform integration."

"The most valuable feature is the job scheduler, where you can schedule thousands of jobs to execute at specific times."

"The job dependency is something that you cannot have in a regular, simple cron job or simple scheduler dependency. The event-driven jobs are core for us, as we really need that. Therefore, we really need Tidal with its ability to run thousands of jobs per day."

"It has been super stable. There are no complaints on stability. We would not be using it if Tidal wasn't stable."

"It is intended to enable large-scale automation environments, making it appropriate for companies with complicated processes and big data volumes."

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Cons

"The solution is good, it's reliable. But sometimes the UI is not the most responsive I've ever used."

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

"JAMS lacks source control features. Our previous solution had job control language, but JAMS doesn't. When migrating between versions, JAMS doesn't migrate all the data, like job change history, etc. Also, the scheduler doesn't have a way to make jobs invisible, so you can temporarily turn a job off if you decide not to run it today."

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

"The error messages from JAMS often need clarification, hindering our ability to resolve issues swiftly."

"Sometimes the UI is not the most responsive I've ever used. But because it does its job, I don't complain."

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

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

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

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

"Due to the abundance of competing automation technologies available on the market, connectivity with any cloud platform can be improved."

"There is a lack of resources and product documentation which, if included, would help to gain more knowledge about the application."

"It would be nice if Redwood RunMyJobs could work on different systems."

"Having a graphical user interface for the dashboard would be great."

"It lacks some of the common reporting features. I'm a bit surprised that there aren't some standard reports to be able to extract any data on usage. They've described to us that customers have different reporting needs, so they let them develop those, but reporting is a common need. 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."

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"It takes a lot of time to learn the product. I have admins and developers who are working on the products for the last three to four years and still don't know all the functionalities."

"Up until the last few months, the Transporter tool that was offered was not really good at all."

"The job failure alerts can be updated with more details for better troubleshooting."

"My complaint about their pricing model is that every year, or every time technology changes or somebody has a new requirement, I need another adapter."

"I know they are working on improving this already, but there needs to be better reporting."

"The GUI, the graphical user interface, gets a little bit busy."

"One area for improvement is the command-line interface and the API to bulk-load jobs. It's a little bit kludgy, but we still manage without it."

"From an administrative point of view, I wouldn't give really high marks to the solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is a good product at a fair price."

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

"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."

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

"Take advantage of its scalability. You can start small. The initial cost is very reasonable. Once you have started picking up the tool and adopting it, then you can scale up from there and buy more agents."

"Definitely check how many single processes you want to run and count them as jobs. That is how you would work out your pricing on JAMS. For example, if you're running a number of commands and you can put them all into one script and run that script, you can count that as one job."

"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."

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

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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."

"Their pricing seems very fair. It is more than the other solutions, but the functionality and the support are very much there. You pay for the job scheduler, and then they have certain things that are built into it, such as the FTP processes. If you then want to do JD Edwards jobs, you need an adapter. If you want to do SQL jobs, there is another adapter. Similarly, if you want to do Oracle jobs, there is an adapter. It is like there is the base and then there are the adapters for the jobs that you want to do, but it seems that's also how they pay for each of those adapters and keep them up to date."

"Our licensing model for Tidal is on an annual basis. It is very good and works well for us. Tidal's licensing is very transparent and simple. It lets you know, for the amount you use, that's the price that you pay. So, we buy X number of licenses, and we know that this is where we are. I'm very happy with that. I saw the licensing modules on other platforms, and I didn't like them. Other companies and solutions would calculate the connections, adapters, and instances. I think that's the reason that BMC was pretty expensive: They just didn't understand what our needs are."

"The solution’s licensing model in terms of its flexibility and transparency regarding costs is pretty good. A person can buy the license, and if you decide to stop support, you can do that but still have the product. So, it's not like you're paying constantly to keep that license alive. Certainly, you want to keep support going too. Once you buy it, you own it. It's not like I have to keep paying somebody to keep using it."

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

"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."

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

"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 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

15%

Manufacturing Company

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Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Financial Services Firm

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Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	19

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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

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

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