# IBM WebSphere Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Application Server Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-server) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 159 ## About IBM WebSphere IBM WebSphere Liberty and Application Server (WAS) are part of JSphere Suite for Java, a portfolio of products including application runtimes, modernization tooling, and developer productivity IDE extensions that enable you to rapidly modernize enterprise Java applications and create new cloud-native applications, with support for on-premise and major public cloud deployments; in virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes. IBM WebSphere Liberty is a next-generation, enterprise-grade application runtime that accelerates the delivery of cloud-native applications, allowing your team to rapidly deliver differentiating innovation. Whether you're running microservices in a serverless environment or a traditional always on application, Liberty requires less infrastructure, memory, and compute resources, providing the flexibility your organization needs to deploy on any cloud in a trusted, secure and open environment. Liberty empowers your development and platform engineering teams to continuously deliver code that meets and exceeds your customers' expectations. Adopt Liberty today and experience up to a 99% reduction in time to deploy code. Traditional WebSphere runtimes, include IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core, IBM WebSphere Network Deployment (WAS-ND), Reviews for any of these components can be done here. ## IBM WebSphere Reviews ### 1. Exploring the Development Journey: Collaborating with IBM WebSphere in Software Development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harshavardhan B. | Sr. Full-Stack Java Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Scalable and flexible deployment options across on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments. Robust Java EE runtime environment for developing and deploying enterprise applications. Lightweight and modular Liberty runtime optimized for microservices and cloud-native development. Integration with modern DevOps practices and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Strong security features, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and compliance support. Extensive integration capabilities for seamless interaction with enterprise systems and services. Enhanced development productivity with rapid startup times and efficient resource utilization. Comprehensive tooling and automation support for streamlined application deployment and management. Industry-standard compliance and support for messaging, connectivity, and integration standards. Continual innovation and updates from IBM to meet evolving application development needs. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Complexity: Some users have found WebSphere Hybrid Edition to have a steeper learning curve and complexity compared to other application server options. Resource Consumption: WebSphere Hybrid Edition may require more resources compared to lighter-weight alternatives, which could impact performance and scalability in certain environments. Licensing Cost: IBM WebSphere products, including the Hybrid Edition, are known for their higher licensing costs compared to some open-source alternatives, which may be a consideration for budget-conscious organizations **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition solves the problem of deploying and managing scalable, secure, and flexible enterprise applications across diverse environments, benefiting organizations with simplified application development and deployment processes. ### 2. Still Very Useful and Quite Fast **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geoffrey K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** I like that this edition can run on both cloud and on premise. We use it to quickly build and run our applications and it has been used a lot when modernizing our old legacy solutions. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The thing that I do dislike about this solution is finding software engineers and analysts that that the techincal knowledge to help us. I guess this is a common problem these days with many applcations. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to build and modernize or legacy applications and solutions. We have been able to quickly do this and are glad that we have a choice of whether to keep them on premise or in the cloud. ### 3. Solid Web Application Server from a World Class Vendor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjay D. | Head Enterprise Technology Architecture, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Strong Operational and admistration capabilities Open standarsd are well supported Enhanced security features Well supported product **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** IBM products are gerenally high in terms of cost as compared to other vendors. Also consulting costs tend to be higher Root Casue analysis for complex issues is very difficult and needs consultancy most of the time **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployment of key web applications for various Business domains. Several Business applications are leveraging this platform and Business is happy with the robustness, performance and security features ### 4. Easy configuration and cost effective way to manage your applications on cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manoj K. | Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Its very simple and flexible when it comes to deployment. This is very cost effective as well. Very easy to configure our data sources. Provides Hybrid and local installation **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The biggest challenge as a leader using this tool is lack of documentation, the documentation are not great and doesnt cover everything. This is really suprising given the vast feature this provides. Support is really pain to reach and get queries resolved, very time consuming **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM Webspehere has helped us in setting up application servers both locally and via cloud. Ease of creating multiple applications.The security it provides is also top notch ### 5. Best use case ibm websphere for transaction management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arabinda D. | VP - Technology Services and Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Easy to manage app server , simple configuration can reduce the load on the code **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Though.i don't dislike but every product has it pro and simultaneously its has cons , since no product is silver bullet for all designs, websphere has same like learning path initial slightly dofficult **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Java or enterprise based transaction management smoothly handled using websphere ### 6. Excellent Product for your application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** It´s versatility, easy to manage it, to implement, I have a lot of applications using it. The IBM Support is also good. It is easy to integrate with other Products. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Nothing, really I cannot find a reason not to use this Product comparing to others in the market. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** HR Applications, Finance applications ### 7. IBM WebSphere brings seemless gate way to enterprises **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveenkumar H. | Hardware Technical Expert, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** IBM WebSphere hybrid edition comes with lot more easy integration of gate way applications. Java based server application make UI lot more easy and responsive. Communication between the server application is seemless. Its light weight application makes easy to deploy in cloud. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Gateway middleware is resource intensive causing performance impact. Intergating middleware to existing systems and applications can be sometimes challenging due to compatibility issues. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its end user application are simply amazing, it cover almost entire ecostucture updates. seemless communication between the system make it to stand out of the crowd. ### 8. WebSphere Hybrid Edition helps your modernization journey to WebSphere Liberty and the cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean B. | Senior Systems Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** WebSphere Hybrid Edition is helping us modernize our WebSphere runtime from 'traditional' WebSphere Application Server (tWAS) to a much simpler, lightweight, fast and easy-to-use runtime in WebSphere Liberty. While tWAS is a great product and has served us well over many years, WebSphere Liberty is better. WebSphere Liberty is suitable for not only traditional VM environments - where most of our workload is today - but WebSphere Liberty has been purpose-built for the cloud, with super fast startup times and low memory requirements. And once your transition from tWAS to WebSphere Liberty is complete, should you wish, the next step to containerize your apps is effortless. Of course, not all apps in their present form are suitable candidates for the cloud. That’s where Mono2Micro comes to the rescue. Mono2Micro helps you refactor your apps to microservices. I will admit that while I have tried the product, and it is pretty impressive with what it did, coming from an admin rather than a development background, I did find it somewhat challenging. Placed in the right hands, though, I could see it considerably simplifying and reducing the risk and effort in this refactoring process. I’m not sure how you could refactor a monolithic app any other way. Much, if not all, of the complexities of creating and managing tWAS environments are eliminated when using WebSphere Liberty. I cannot stress this enough; you should start using and moving (from tWAS) to WebSphere Liberty today. You won’t look back! If you’re an admin, your app teams will thank you for it. As an admin, creating a WebSphere Liberty server in one second sure beats the manageProfile and addNode commands. Even the ability to rename a WebSphere Liberty server with a Unix ‘mv’ command is a win for me. Or being able to clone an existing server with a Unix copy command saves too much time and effort. Many years back, I had difficulties convincing teams to use WebSphere Liberty rather than tWAS, but now they are asking me for it! And to help you on your journey, WebSphere Hybrid Edition provides Transformation Advisor (TA), which scans your code to identify the suitability of using WebSphere Liberty, identifies what needs to change, provides an estimate on the effort required and helps generate your server.xml file. TA can also help identify apps using WAS-ND that could run in WAS-base, thereby saving considerably on licensing charges - this is helping us in such an exercise. Then there’s the complex world of managing licenses. Using WebSphere Hybrid Edition has simplified our licensing model and is helping alleviate our concerns about exceeding our rights. Now we can have one pool, not a WAS-ND pool, a WAS-base pool, and a Liberty core pool. Just one license pool to manage them all. WebSphere Hybrid Edition has allowed us to convert our expensive WAS-ND licenses to WebSphere Hybrid Edition licenses for a small cost without discarding our WAS-ND licenses entirely. Now we can transition appropriate apps from WAS-ND to WAS-base, Liberty-base or Liberty-core without wasting our WAS-ND licenses and purchasing new WAS-base or Liberty-core licenses. Strange as it sounds, we have several apps using WAS-ND without using any of the WAS-ND features. And lastly - this is not a sales pitch, just my opinion - I do like IBM’s commitment and investment to making WebSphere Liberty the best product possible, with a particular focus on the cloud. This investment can be seen with what appears to be a fantastic feature in Liberty InstantOn. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** My least-liked feature isn't easy to answer as there is so much to like about WebSphere Hybrid Edition, particularly WebSphere Liberty. Of all the features of WebSphere Hybrid Edition, while I like Mono2Micro, it was somewhat overwhelming. It should be noted that this is not a reflection on the product - which is quite impressive - it’s more a reflection of the difficulties an admin like me has with the product. As mentioned earlier, I’m sure the feeling would be different in the hands of a developer. Similarly, nothing to do with Mono2Micro, but I feel WebSphere Hybrid Edition truly shines when moving from tWAS to WebSphere Liberty - this is where the mix-and-match licensing helps - rather than Mono2Micro. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** WebSphere Hybrid Edition, both tWAS and WebSphere Liberty, allows us to run our critical business applications in a high performing, robust, and reliable application server. While we have intermittent problems, these generally relate to the apps or sizing issues - Java heap size, pool sizes, etc. I cannot think of a time when the WebSphere product was the issue. And with WebSphere Liberty, one of the more challenging issues around web container thread pool sizes is solved with the auto-scaling default executor thread pool. ### 9. Reliable platform for hybrid clouds and scaling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajni Kant S. | Strategy and Expansion, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** - Security and compliance is really good - Integration of hybrid clouds and management is what we love the most **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** - Documentation is very technical and lengthy - Containeraization is still very nascent **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's solving the hybrid cloud integration for us ### 10. Good combination of two products **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joao A. | Senior Lead Infrastructure Specialist at Kyndryl, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** With Application Server we can have a full JEE with a nice admin console that faciliates its administration and also an API to administer it using python and automate several monotonous tasks like deployment of applications. With Liberty you have a very fast working environment executing only what you need. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Nothing to dislike. Even the support is great. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have an entire Bank solution implemented using Application Server. ### 11. Recently one of the project was transmitted from IBM to Tcs ..so in that we are having IBm wmB **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavani D. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** It is very helpfull while using in our project ..easy to complete the tasks and understand IBM WMB is used for devloping and for testing the code . Using since a year **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Every thing was good.i like this eveything **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benifiting through time saving and easy to explain ### 12. lightweight but robust solution to meet enterprise needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Liberty provides a lightweight solution to support Java applications, and I love its fast rollout of an application/production and the fewer efforts for support and maintenance. Application Server still provides a powerful and robust solution to meet enterprise needs. The security and transaction management features are still much appreciated for complicated business requirements. I love the convenience of configuring data sources, and creating different types of application servers and applications in the Application Server. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The lack of a convenient way to test the data source connection in the Liberty. For the Application Server, I dislike the complexity of the file structure and the confusion of configuration files at different levels (e.g. Node level and Server level) **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps run a bundle of our Java applications to meet business requirements. We benefit from the fast rollout of the application extension in Liberty to satisfy the constantly changing of non-critical business. We also benefit from the robust and yet complicated solutions to the core applications in the Application Server to meet critical business needs. ### 13. Secure and efficient application server for enterprise applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Junaid A. | Frontend Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** IBM WebSphere Application Server is a highly flexible solution for running and testing enterprise applications with Java server runtime environments. The best aspect of the solution is the flexibility for deploying and managing applications regardless of location and machines, which is excellent for testing and analyzing deployed applications in multi-cloud environments. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Cloud deployment doesn't take much time for IBM WebSphere Application Server and is easy to manage, but the container deployment of the server images at the premise is hard to understand and a bit tricky process. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use IBM WebSphere for building, deploying and running our enterprise applications with the Java runtime environment. It is very helpful to test the application during the development process, as it provides the best predictive scenario for the applications that will run after production. ### 14. REVIEW FOR IBM WEBSPHERE APPLICATION SERVER. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek C. | Weblogic Administrator , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Best Application server for Java based application. it is used for deploying Jar War file on server level. We can set heap size and adjust accordingly with the help of Application devlopment team **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Very costly application server in market as compared to other applications Server.As there is no any dislike due to it's stabilitym **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the help of IBM WAS server we can deploy the JAR file and we can secure our application with cluster feature. With the help of its http server we can make the complexity in Our environmentm ### 15. My bad experiences with WebSphere **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** The product itself is great when it works. If there are no issues, it will be a good tool for running and testing your Java EE environments. The idea is solid, and the product is helpful in the short term. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** As I mentioned above, WebSphere is great when it works well. The problem is that it rarely does. I have had a host of issues with this product that have driven me up the walls. I am sure you have seen the comments online if you've looked this product up about how complex it is. It is very convoluted, and complex is a light term. I am also not sure if others have experienced what I would call 'bugs' but others on my team call defects with the product. It mostly happens during upgrades and it is a headache that i am sure many people would prefer to be without. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It isn't honestly solving any problems as it was causing them instead. We have since moved away from WebSphere with great pain since the cost of it was so high. ### 16. Optimize application performance and efficiency **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah M. | Technical Support Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty) is an excellent solution for optimizing applications and getting the best efficiency. It can minimize the IT budgets as we have the liberty to use WebSphere infrastructure. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Once we set them up correctly, automation processes are extraordinary, but the initial setup for application integrations and updating workflows is a little tricky. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used IBM WebSphere hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty) as the cloud-native application development solution, and the experience has been fantastic. The most significant benefit of IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition is the cost-saving for application infrastructure, as it has the market's most advanced IT optimization solutions. ### 17. IBM WebSphere all-in-one solution with richness of cloud and vital modernization tools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Surendra S. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Multi support like cloud, on premises, and hybrid cloud with the use of vital modernization tools makes it all-in-one solution **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** So far nothing to dislike about this. But would vote dislike over complex setup and slow performance when restarting the complex applications. Connection issues after restarting the WebSphere **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modernization using best industry tools. HPC (High performance computing) and confidential computing using common platforms ### 18. It was a good product 10 years back. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashutosh D. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Thare was a good facility for the configuration for a enterprice application, we can easily configure the security apis, database connection using this tool. It has great era almost for two decades in the web application market. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Nowdays so mnay free web servers like tomcat are available in free of cost also the support is also available with frequent new functionalities. here this product is lacking behind. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very big learning curve, messy to configure, the interface is not so good. **Official Response from Neil Patterson:** > Thanks for the review. It appears you are familiar with WebSphere Application Server but have yet to explore the latest Liberty software, which is part of WebSphere Hybrid Edition. Please check out openliberty.io, the open source, upstream cloud-native runtime, which supports the latest cloud-native development features, including full compatibility with MicroProfile, Jakarta EE, and more of the leading standards. I believe you will be pleasantly surprised at the innovation available with this free, open-source runtime. When you need full support, please check out WebSphere Liberty, built on Open Liberty. ### 19. Bright Future for WebSphere Ecosystem ! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** L.walid . | Solution Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Multiple deployments and support options, Focus on modernization, maintain your operations, and support your running production. Transformation Advisor Mono2Micro **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Documentation about Trade-Ups, great set of tools, need to integrate more Mono2Micro with TA **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** If you are using WebSphere ND it's time to move to the Hybrid Edition, it would accelerate your modernization journey, ease version upgrade and move to container platform. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modernization Journeys are some of the major ongoing projects, and having the flexibility in terms of deployment topologies and unique tools for modernization, helps us increase productivity and innovation. ### 20. App Server configuration, installation and deployment made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** App Server configuration, installation and deployment made easy. Installation to easy infact we get sever configuration tool to updates and improvements. User friendly app Server **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Nothing in particular. Sometime Since connecting to server configuration tool takes time. It would be helpful if we get robust IBM websphere server to localhost connectivity. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It works really well on Java apps and security wise it is leading in the market. Websphere helped us move on-prem apps into cloud without much or a problems. Looking forward for the more updates ### 21. Using IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Susan B. | Lead ACE/MQ Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** It gives the developers choices to select WAS, Liberty or Open Liberty for application development. This greatly increases developer productivity. Also, I like the fact that WebSphere Hybrid Edition allows developers to create and support microservices that reduce application complexity. It supports migration to containers. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** I dislike the time it takes to maintain legacy applications while converting to IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reducing the time between having found a problem and fixing the problem. The developers were able to find problems faster and debug faster as well as get feedback and fix the problem faster. ### 22. I can use to connect website users with java applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** maggie h. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** I like that it has the Websphere Application Server (WAS), liberty profile for developer productivity because it has a fast start-up time and a wide range of programming models. The best part is that applications do not have to be online silmutaneously, and it has the ability to identify and adress my needs. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** I do not like that it sometimes slows down during deployment, and I feel that it's expensive to purchase and renew; other than that, it has served me well to the best of its ability. **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** It is highly customizable to meet business needs and has a liberty collection administration feature to administer up to thousands of application servers; hence I highly recommend it. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM Websphere has allowed me to create and manage sophisticated business websites. I also use Websphere Application Server to connect websites with java applications or servlets. This has helped me in differentiation hence gaining customers loyalty. ### 23. Nice Java EE and cloud-native runtime **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mihir P. | Senior Principal Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** one of the best Kubernetes-based deployment service **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Many things yet to explore but now I am exploring **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly I am using for cloud-native applications and its a very easy and quick solution which concentrate more on business deliverables ### 24. Engineering manager **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Badr Z. | Senior Software Engineering Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Intelligent routing and Dynamic clustering **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** There is no free version able, IDE options need improvement **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise-ready features are beneficial. It is a product worthful for enterprises. ### 25. Reviewing by WAS Admin **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lekkala H. | Operations Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** IBM WEBSPHERE APPLICATION IS THE moddle ware technology that used to deploy the application server and webserver. I like to federate multiple nodes intointo the deployment manager **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** WAS NEED TO BE DEVELOP TO START AND RESTART THE WEBSEVER OR APPLICATION SERVER WHENEVER WE DO THE DEPLOYMENT OR THE SERVER DOWN. IBM need to reduce the uses of Linux commands. Better to use in Web console **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** It is one of the best IBM product that developed for Application deployment. The best support for both web servers and application server management **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application deployment, webserver start and stop, app server and noflde agent start and stop. Horizantal clustering and vertical clustering. Configured websphere resources like JDBC providers and JDBC data sources and connection pooling ### 26. Application is great to use with a good GUI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Allows integration into the cloud and allows users the flexibility to navigate. Great GUI. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The view I have as a developer requires me not to use a lot of the functionality. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration from a back end to a frontend ### 27. IBM WebSphere Liberty: The Emperor has New Clothes... **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shawn H. | Technology Owner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** We have all grown to know and trust Traditional WebSphere Application Server (tWAS) as the gold standard application server of choice over the years. Now, we have an opportunity to take advantage of micro-services and modernize our application architecture/infrastructure. We need a new, dynamic, lightweight, container-ready application server runtime solution to facilitate this. Enter IBM WebSphere Liberty...all of the above and more. Out with the old, in with the new (with an appreciative nod to tWAS). **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Change is difficult...technological change, even more so. Thankfully, we have an application server modernization solution like IBM WebSphere Liberty to help us along the journey. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM WebSphere Liberty is dynamic, lightweight, platform-agnostic, and container-ready. It checks all of the modernization journey boxes. It boasts the backbone/foundation of tWAS to instill confidence and stability in the technicians supporting it and the customers consuming it. IBM WebSphere Liberty provides us with the application server platform we require to support the modernization of our tWAS infrastructure, our legacy applications, and our procedural workflows as we move towards DevOps and micro-services adoption. ### 28. The complete package of IBM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gautam R. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** The transition from native to cloud, it is often for on running project it is very difficult to cope of with migration without doing any changes, but IBM makes it easy and very minimal change to migrate to cloud, also not compulsion that all should be done once. The reduces cost, efficient , much optimised now **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Nothing as of now, still exploring, will surely add if found or faced any **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** This edition of IBM WebSphere Hybrid is much more efficient and optimised with cloud features to stay in sync with latest technologies in the market **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work with Java applications and for JEE IBM project best platform to run onpremises as IBM latest version is also helping it to be easily migrate to cloud this is very helpful. ### 29. Useful Application Server for All tier applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank D. | software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** IBM Websphere is a beneficial and configurable application enterprise server that has many configurations like data source connection, java configs, server configs etc. you can install this server in any kind of system like AIX, Windows even in your local machine for development purposes. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** There are no such dislikes, but it has a very old user interface, and sometimes it takes time to sync up with the backend side, like stopping a server sometimes hangs your system. Deploying any application on this server is a lengthy process, unlike modern servers. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM Websphere is beneficial in terms of security and cloud-ready ability. We also needed so much for earlier application's architecture to move with cloud microservices architecture. This Websphere helped us to move into any Cloud with proper containerization. ### 30. IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition... Powerful and excellent server. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon T. | Chief Technology Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** It's easy and quick to integrate IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition with other WebSphere applications. I like the ability to host all our applications especially the Java built applications on IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition. IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition is stable, cheaper and secure and i recommend it to all companies looking for such a great platform. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The customer support sometimes takes longer than expected to respond to issues we are experiencing. Apart from this i have nothing else negative to mention about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition offers a online documentation which helps you to easily and quickly administer the application thus saving much time. Finally, my experience with IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition has been overwhelming and it can't be compared with any other application servers. ### 31. IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition... The best Java application server we were looking for. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James N. | Account Receivable Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition is highly customizable to suit your business needs. It offers a guide which helps you to set it up step by step which is absolutely easy and straightforward. Again, i like the fact that it integrates with multiple applications which makes it a powerful and secure solution compared to its competitors. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition is a bit expensive, difficult to use and a bit complicated to deploy. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition provides high security especially when working on several platforms since the information is sending via a Middleware across different operating systems. Again, IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition has a very responsive customer support team behind it, they respond quickly once you contact them. ### 32. WebSphere Hybrid Edition... 20+ years old and still stronger than before. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cynthia N. | Tour Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** WebSphere is one of our favorite server and its trusted by many out there. Since we started using it, we have never experienced any system issues related to server performance and it has been very stable and reliable. With WebSphere, application deployment is extremely easy and fast. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The only challenge with WebSphere is that it takes time to learn and understand since it has a complex learning curve. You have to pay high fees to get the licenses. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides a wide variety of integration tools thus making our work more easier. It is easy to create execution groups. ### 33. IBM WAS Hybrid Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gauri R. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** IBM WAS is extremely safe and has improved security methods. The process of integration with other systems and SSO setup is quite simple and hassle-free. It can construct numerous nodes and clusters with integrated monitoring. It offers a rapid-deployment solution. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** We have faced issues in node syncing. Due to its complexity, understanding a few functionalities can be tedious and improvements can be accommodated. The server takes a considerable amount of time to boot up and causes a lot of delays. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building and deploying applications on the server for both cloud and mobile. Also, we have been connecting our website users with many different java applications. ### 34. Awesome **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prabha K. | Maximo Database Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Easy to deploy, robust, perfect for web based application deployment. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** less support, less document, documents are written with complex examples. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployed web based applications from IBM ### 35. My experience with IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James N. | Production Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Integration process with other systems and SSO set up is extremely easy and effortless. Very easy to migrate to cloud. Provides top security. Responsive customer support team. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** I can remember experiencing some bugs while shifting applications to IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition. Nothing much to mention as a dislike about it. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition provides top security and has boosted security methods. IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition offers rapid-development solution. Responsive and reliable customer support team. ### 36. Excellent application but needs some improvement. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan A. | Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition has a complex learning curve and getting started with it can be a bit tedious. It is extremely safe and has boosted security methods. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The only disadvantage is that IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition has a complex learning curve and for new users it can be a bit tedious to get started with it. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple to migrate to cloud. Provides high security. SSO is easy and effortless. ### 37. Highly recommend IBM WAS for all your App Base **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ROMA B. | Sr Technical Support Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** This was one of the first and best Applications servers I have ever worked with. Great to run Java based Applications with good Cluster Management Features. Best part is that IBM runs the updates in a timely manner ensuring and fixing the Bugs and poor performance from previous versions. I have looked at the tool from the support perspective as I was part of production Support team but I have heard that it works great for the Developers. There is a WAS support available for people seeking more help with the tool. Very Handy. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** From Support perspective again I felt that the logs did not give much information to debug the issues we saw. Other than that I did not have any problems. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly used it to run and manage our Middleware Applications on it. Used it for scaling and real time communication with other servers in our organisation. ### 38. All in one solution for application server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ashida c. | QA Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Ease of use, less learning curve, felxible configuration **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Documentation need to be improved as the steps are not in detail **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** If you want to quickly get your business site or content management site ready and operate easy IBM websphere is the answer **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick creation of business sites, easy access for admin , require less technical knowledge to operate. Easily understood UI ### 39. Great application server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **Describe the project or task IBM WebSphere helped with:** Our java web projects and java service project run with the WebSphere application server. **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** The server is very easy to use and the deployment is simple. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The product costs a little high compared with others. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** WebSphere Application Server is a software that performs the role of application server. I use websphere until 3 years. Our java web project and java service projects run with webSphere application server ### 40. Much to learn, happy to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash Gourav S. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** WAS console is one of my favourite, as it's easy to use. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Console slows down sometyat the time of deployment which is a bit disappointing. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used to work on the WAS console for deployments, certificate update security, DB updates and all. ### 41. A software playing role of a powerful web application server. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Barbara-éctor M. | Consultora Marketing & Publicidad, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** IBM Websphere application server is one of the most established running application servers from IBM, however, they continue updating it to the more latest rendition. It has all the fundamental usefulness that you will search for in an application server. You can have every one of your applications particularly the Java manufactured applications on it. Our total middleware devices like MQ and Message Broker were incorporated effectively and safely with it. it's powerful, it depends on a normalizing j2ee engine hierarchy by IBM and has SSO technology accessible out of the container. IBM's uphold is amazing. It likewise awesome bunch the executives includes alongside logging usefulness. It has WAS support through which arrangement should be possible without explicit coding. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Barely any usefulness like following and troubleshooting isn't up to the imprints as the logging isn't so explicit about mistakes and alerts. Message engine design is a troublesome and unwieldy cycle. Some of the time sending does not reflect appropriately. It's excessively big. Building up an application with Websphere is horrendously moderate. It gives all regardless of whether you don't require it. Sometimes it comes down of no reason. we face a repeated error of node is not available. or could not synchronize the config between all nodes. we have to restart the server from the command line not from the console. The console cannot do ann admin functionalities. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** I would prescribe to anybody to truly think do they truly require IBM WebSphere or if their business issue could be understood utilizing some other (more steady and less expensive) alternatives. It's been a smooth encounter working with IBM Websphere. Reconciliation with other Websphere apparatuses is simple and speedy. The organization and facilitating, both are steady and secure. ### 42. IBM Websphere Smooth Integration with T24 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali Qammar R. | T24 Technical Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** It is very convenient and easy to integrate T24 with IBM Websphere. We have been using IBM websphere in one of the largest commercial banks in Pakistan. We have integrated our Internet banking and few other banking software systems via IBM Websphere to T24 core banking system. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Customer support TAT (Turn Around Time) should be made better. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apart from smooth integration, IBM also offers critical checks and balances that cannot be implemented directly in T24 e.g. if there is any transaction coming in from any alternate delivery channel that does not fulfill the regulatory requirement we can stop the transaction in IBM websphere without putting load on our T24 core banking systems. ### 43. Enthusiastic about learning new free technologies **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** I like WAS because is possible to deploy war file or ear file and dependency stay inside on server, for that when i build the war file is not necessary include dependency, the project is light, another things is very easy to configuration and install SSL certifications. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** is very complicated to migrate one version another version for example to migrate java 8 to java 11, because the environment is different. **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** should be familiarize with Java, Linux and UNIX. because if you have knowledge for that technologies is most easy to learn IBM WAS for my opinion. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you have application with a lot transaction the server WAS is very good, the WAS server process get a lot request without problems. ### 44. Cloud solution for your business needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** cloud transformation, migration toolkit, micro services, licensing **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Pricing for service, developer trial edition, documentation **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application migration, cloud solutions, micro service support ### 45. Best Friendly User experience with stable features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil S. | Associate Technical Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** As per my experience Administration part is the best ever. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** As per my experience If anything happens with server/crash. Reinstallation time was more **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time saving in terms of out-of-box features, easy to start with implementing business layer & re-use of out-of-box features. Hence time, money & quality is assured. ### 46. IBM WebSphere Application Server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rebecca D. | Senior Communications Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** WebSphere is an application software that is used within the System to process a lot of data. IBM makes it very easy to use their software and their support is top. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** There are times when the administrators would like to do something that the software will not handle. I guess we think out of the box to much. There are a few times when we have to update xml files because those files didn't get updated. **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** Make sure you know your client requirements before doing your instation. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** The software was able to handle our way of using buses which was not normal but it works great. We have applications that require multiple servers that must communicate with each other in real time. ### 47. Production Support Developer **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Advanced tuning controls and status information from the web console **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Slow Performance when restarting complex applications, complexity, external connection issues after restarting WebSphere **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using an alternative more light-weight app server like TomCat for smaller JAR or WAR applications, and only using WebSphere for bigger projects. This greatly simplifies the architecture and enables the company to deal with the disadvantages of WebSphere ### 48. Powerful with grait feuters **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Worked mainly with security flows. Extension of auth flows. It was pretty easy to customize **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Hard to find detailed info and docs, at least in security area. But at the end my team get dedicted person from core team and problem was salved **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** SSO for Amdocs apps. Was required castomiztion of auth chains ### 49. websphere app server is the best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** we have convinient way to deploy applications including webservice application and it is very fast todeploy them **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** nothing as such , but it is very heavy in resource consumption **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** highly recommed for webservices apps and heavy duty applications **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** deploying web service application ### 50. Reliable and Robust **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Commercial Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** One of the most reliable server compare to other options **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Configurations and settings complexity of the server. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise-level scaling and load handling. ## IBM WebSphere Discussions - [What is IBM WebSphere hybrid edition?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ibm-websphere-hybrid-edition) - 1 comment - [View IBM WebSphere pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-websphere/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-05+12%3A48%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a003635f-0ec4-4450-8262-3b47ec8bcdc1&secure%5Btoken%5D=38dfa873540d8fd488b336429a6e08b55f3e1208970bddf6cba58b37c34e9c46&format=llm_user) ## IBM WebSphere Features **Data Management** - Data Redundancy - Server Management - Version and Profile Support - Web-based frameworks - Data exchange **Application Support** - Deployment - Interface support - Processor support - Application Support **User Features** - Centralized offering - Security updates - Real-time visibility **System Capability** - Self Healing High Availability - Orchestration - Scalability **Modernization** - Cloud deployment - Microservices development - On-premises support - Modular architecture **Security** - Automatic Security Updates - Security updates **AI Performance Improvement - Application Server** - AI Application Scaling - AI Error Prediction - Intelligent Resource Forecasting - AI Anomaly Detection - AI Intrusion Detection **Agentic AI - Application Server** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top IBM WebSphere Alternatives - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (931 reviews) - [Apache Tomcat](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-tomcat/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (124 reviews) - [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,340 reviews)