Case Study: Frontline Technologies achieves enterprise-scale secure SQL scheduling and robust disaster recovery with JAMS

Frontline Technologies - Customer Case Study

Frontline Technologies, a leading workforce-management software company whose products serve thousands of schools and organizations, relied heavily on SQL Server for time-sensitive payroll, attendance and other batch jobs. Native SQL scheduling created three key problems: it required granting broad database permissions to developers and support staff, suffered from blocking and resource contention when application-level jobs ran, and lacked reliable disaster-recovery synchronization—risking loss of recent job changes between data centers.

Frontline adopted JAMS Job Scheduler to centralize and harden scheduling. JAMS uses Active Directory roles for fine-grained permissions, decouples job orchestration from SQL to eliminate blocking and preserve database resources, and supports frequent log shipping (every five minutes) and mirroring for near-zero-latency DR. The result was a scalable, enterprise-grade automation layer that extended the useful life of Frontline’s SQL investments, improved reliability and security, and integrated with internal monitoring for proactive operations.

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Eric Butler

Frontline Technologies