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# Page 2 - Reviews of IBM WebSphere Application Server

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SR

Shiva R.  
Sr Director  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "probably the best in class in the market for application development"

January 18, 2018

5.0

application development and deployment

Pros

it is a very stable server for application development and nodes/clusters can be configured/connected. Has a good console interface too.

Cons

it takes longer than usual to start the server and the other thing is that documentation could have been more comprehensive too

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Bharat B.  
Middleware Consultant  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Websphere Review"

May 20, 2020

4.0

Pros

IBM Websphere is one of the highly usable tool in middleware space. The way it integrates with MQ makes it even more popular.

Cons

Only thing which i least like about IBM is its complex features. It takes time to learn and implement this tool.

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PP

Patrick P.  
Manager, Product Support  
Logistics and Supply Chain  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "IBM Websphere Data Interchange"

October 25, 2021

4.0

We use it to send/receive EDI data to/from our customers.

Pros

IBM WDI drag and drop mapping is easy

Cons

send/receive mapping is more complicated than the new DT mapping

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JS

Jonathan S.  
  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "How did this become the enterprise standard?"

October 27, 2016

3.0

I like that it has JNDI support and some Eclipse integration. Other than that, the layout for the administration console makes little sense and changes frequently, the memory footprint is huge (it takes far more resources to run the server than to run an application on the server), and there are generally bugs that result in memory leaks or even storage over utilization before even installing an application.

Pros

JNDI and Eclipse integration

Cons

Bugs that result in using up my server disk space

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Production Support  
Banking  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Recommended, but needs training"

March 2, 2022

5.0

I like it, a loyal user of WebSphere.

Pros

universal use, so easy to find free training materials anywhere; easy to use, and powerful, time saving.

Cons

the configuration takes time, we have a specific team to work on it.

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sG

siddharth G.  
Team Leader  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Being a case manager, navigator dev websphere has been usefull for us for ease of deployment/ config"

May 16, 2017

5.0

Pros

It's very easy to install and as a java supporting web server it can host large scale of applications like filenet and case manager, other supporting tool are also easy to configure and syncing and organizing diffrent nodes in single websphere installation is very good.

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HC

Hemant C.  
Integration Consultant  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "IBM Websphere Platform is a very stable product."

July 18, 2017

4.0

Stable implementations

Pros

Very stable product that can handle large volumes of loads. It is very reliable for large implementations.

Cons

Cost is on the higher side and Issues are sometimes very hard to trace. Working through support can be cumbersome.

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GM

Gopi M.  
  
  
Used the software for:

### "Good Product for small and large enterprises - iBM BPM, Process server, WESB"

April 21, 2017

5.0

IBM Business Process Management Product has benefited greatly from the acquisition of a Lombardi, an industry leading BPM product which specialized in Human workflow oriented business processes. Furthermore IBM had their own legacy BPM product which was pretty strong on the back end integration and process orchestration front. WebSphere Process Server while dealing with the problem of systems integration there often arises an opportunity to incorporate some company-specific business processes to the service bus. In case when a business process requires responses from a number of systems, requests to a number of systems to get some reference information or even some sort of human workflow to receive approval, etc. then such processes may be implemented within one solid medium being able to interact with each and every system using specific adapters. WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus our main focus was to implement integration across a bunch of systems interacting separately with each other. In this context, IBM's service bus came up to be good candidate for reducing the amount of relations between distributed systems. This feature has proved itself as a more or less easy to be set-up, tuned and customized for the specific company means.

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AA

Ashish A.  
Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Best Java EE application Server"

October 23, 2018

4.0

One of our old Java project is deployed on IBM WebSphere. We have found no issues related to deployment and server performance and it have bee very stable so far.

Pros

IBM WebSphere is 20 years old project that aims to provide Java application server for Enterprise applications. Its latest version was released in 2016 that supports Java 8. It works best with Linux systems. Application deployments is easy and fast with WebSphere.

Cons

Being a Commercial Web serve, One has to pay high fees to get the licenses. It takes some time to make grip on using the software.

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Gregory L.  
AE  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "WebSphere review"

December 4, 2018

5.0

Pros

excellent options, pricing, and smooth integrations

Cons

There are not any really significant drawbacks to this

Review Source

BS

Balu S.  
Service desk analyst  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "I would say the best middle ware that anyone can get"

February 9, 2018

5.0

It always prefer Websphere for deploying any Java based application

Pros

the applications deployed in it works awesome and very rarely the servers crashes. It improves the total service of the application deployed in it.

Cons

It is a bit hard to maintain, if the server crashes the applications deployed in it will be halted and it's a big con

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Carolina U.  
Especialista en Sistemas  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Stable application server"

May 17, 2018

4.0

Stability

Pros

We used Websphere IBM for messaging applications, it's satble, reliable, the console is very easy to use.

Cons

lack of documentation, the license fees are high, as any application server has to be well configured to have a good performance. It was well integrated with ibm MQ

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Solutions Architect | BPM/SOA/EAI  
  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "The best Application Server i've used"

January 31, 2018

5.0

Pros

For me it's the most stable application server i have ever used and the integration with other IBM software is bulti in.

Cons

The licensse fee is high, setting the server could be very hard if you're not too experienced in administration

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SP

Suresh P.  
  
  
Used the software for:

### "CastIron-Texans"

October 3, 2016

5.0

My experience with IBM Cast Iron cloud integration tool is too good. IBM Cast Iron integration tool enables you to integrate on premise to on premise, on premise to could and could to cloud application.

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VG

Vasu G.  
Student  
  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Provides secure run time and flexible set of Java Enterprise Applications"

April 21, 2018

4.0

Pros

\* A number of useful applications are provided \* Lightweight Web services and Micro services can be deployed saving time and cost

Cons

\* Other alternatives and opensource middle wares can replace saving cost \* Import file issues due to xml files

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