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Some vendors implement proprietary protocols between job scheduling server and agents. However, it is ridiculous to assume a protocol to be secure just because "you don't know". The effort to re-engineer protocols fails regularly is continuously decreasing and only suggests better standards for secure connections.

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• Using the JS7 for central operation of jobs. With support for more than half a million job definitions and more than 30 000 thousands of parallel tasks there is sufficient capacity for central management of larger IT environments.
• At the same time JS7 offers the option for a decentralized architecture by allowing any number of Controllers and Agents to work in parallel and independently from a central JOC Cockpit. Rollout of JS7 components is fairly simple and can be streamlined, for example by use of Docker® and cloud server images. This allows to job management responsibility to be shifted to departments and application management teams. JS7's modern and intuitive user interface and straightforward approach for job design and job dependencies mean that knowledge acquisition for daily operations and job management requires far less effort than that required for other products.

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