--- title: IBM WebSphere Reviews meta_title: 'IBM WebSphere Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 159 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM WebSphere works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 159 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-04' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # 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. WAS ND **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Excellent security currency that is highly configurable. Ability to integrate with other products with all the possible options. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Not as quick to startup and a much lager footprint then cloud native options like Open Liberty. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rock solid application server. We host thousands of applications! ### 2. WAS ND **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** This is the main Middleware platform for our company. It is reliable and scalable. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** It is rather heavy weight and is not best for all applications. We are looking into Liberty for the right applications. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is more core platform for our web-based applications. ### 3. It is one of the better Java Application server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marsha C. | TTTTTTT, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** WAS has been around for sometime and my company has been using it for some years now. It has also gone through many updates and release. The current stable release is version 8.5 with support for EJB 3.1 and many other J2EE features. This is actually what we are using. The system is stable and IBM had done alot of R&D on this product. This tool provides good integration with the IBM devloper tool (RAD), and makes development and testing a much easier. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Well the fees for this software is high so we have floating license which makes it a pain sometimes. certain feature is not available on the trial version which is a draw back. Try a few application servers in this space to see if it fits your requirements first and this will take some playing around. **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** I would recommend this tool to other developers as it as gotten updates and improved over the years. Try the trial version first to see if it fits you first. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to develop Java based application at eGov Jamaica Ltd. where I work. ### 4. WebSphere application server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** It’s a great middleware tool to deploy j2ee applications in today’s world. Very user friendly. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Nothing to dislike, again great product. Loved to see in cloud.. also openshift is a great tool **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s most on new fixpacks . It’s very stable tool. ### 5. My Review of WebSphere **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** What I like best about this product is the scalability and that it keeps running! **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** What I dislike the most about this product is that it's complicated to install in manage. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this for everything banking related. It solves our issues. ### 6. Websphere is an enterprise level solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** It can handle heavy load and continue to perform at a high level **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The changes are not coming as fast as the industry is chaging **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are hosting colse to 400 enterprise level applications for both the internal and external customer use., ### 7. Websphere onprem **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Robust, full featured adhering to the JEE spec **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Heavy weight solution with all those integrations. We'll benefit from a leaner product **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** Make it lightweight like JBoss **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Websphere on our Click2Cloud platform. On the Cloud, we use Websphere Liberty. ### 8. Websphere Utilized to Support Netcool Webtop **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Websphere has been consistantly serving our Netcool Webtop application for several years with little to no down time. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Complexity of setup can make it difficult to onboard new support team members. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Websphere is our only method to support Netcool Webtop/DASH ### 9. Best application server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Application console is very friendly. It is easy to create cluster and deploy a new application. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** I don’t have anything dislike. It is very good **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our core banking and internet banking , mobile banking are working on Websphere . ### 10. Websphere App Server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** easy to script application installation and updates. Uptime **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** cost. The time it takes to start up an onprem installation **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** Need to an enterprise lite weight solution that can run onprem and is cost friendly **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** application hosting ### 11. Efficient, direct and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Warehousing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** The product offers easy to navigate features that allow for rapid deployment **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** nothing really to dislike perhaps the coloring of the interface could be more gui freindly and allow for changes **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** easier client integration and deployments ### 12. Websphere is good but needs more thorough patch testing for interoperability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Solid product, scales well. It has been our go to app engine for decades **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Patch policy seems to be created with insuffiicient thought to impact of other ibm products **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many - too many to list ### 13. Great Middleware solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** I like the ability to maintain HA for all of our solutions **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The complexity and many different processes controlling the dynamic capabilities can be complex at times **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing a middleware solution for our applications ### 14. WAS ND **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** It is very stable and well tested application server platform. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** with a lot of services deployed, it took long time to start the server instances. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running inhouse and vendor product to support business units. ### 15. Deployments to websphere take a while. **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Easily able to store application properties within websphere for better security. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The deployment process takes a while. It takes too many clicks and screens to get the application launched. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** The build in queue. ### 16. WebSphere **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Websphere supports a diverse set of use cases **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Configuration can be difficult and troubleshoot is often cumbersome **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Display of KPIs surrounding fault management. with the tivoli NOI product. WebSphere has enabled robust dashboarding ### 17. IBM WAS **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** good support from IBM. Provides good WAS console for configuration. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** IBM WAS is very heavy software. Even on developer machine, it takes almost 10 GB. Also it's very costly. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM WAS used in our old applications. It was stable. However in new applications, i would not recommend using IBM WAS. Should use Tomcat. ### 18. reliable platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** reliability, scalability, secure, and support with main stream of global industry development **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** compatibility with other systems, especially migrate from x86 platforms **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** more in China market **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** e-ticketing cloud services in China market ### 19. I have worked with the product for 14 years **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** i like the support for the product. It is a big factor moving forward **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The traditional and portal products are not nimble. very bloated. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are supporting legacy and vendor applications. ### 20. WAS 9.0 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** The WAS admin console has improved greatly **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** License Cost, still very manual with deployment, and lacks agile way of developing **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our ECM platform is going to cloud, and need faster deployment ### 21. Robust App server platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Robust App server platform. Liberty light weight capablities are good for cloud enablement **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** TWAS is too heavy and is costly. Open source products are cheaper and cloud friendly **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** appl hosting platform ### 22. Very good and stable product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** stability, escalability, ease to maintain. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** memory consumption and it takes time to learn. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** all business application from a big customer runs on WAS. Client have a big benefit using that. ### 23. Seamless Integration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Websphere app server doesn't have issues. It is obscure in our tech stack. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** There is nothing that I dislike about Websphere. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Banking transactions. It is able to handle our loads. ### 24. Execution of large transactions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Dynamic clusters and load balancing helps easy processing large transacion oriented applications. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** WAS is my favorite applicaiton servers, and now is offerring in Liberty. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** High availability and muli node clustering ### 25. Strong Platform for multi application hosting layer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** The clusterring supports varried HA and the integration with other products is easy **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Takes a while to tune for optimal performance **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** HA solutioning for applications available in dual data centers ### 26. Scallable great product, but not as robust with other tools and OSs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** I like the Scalable and lot of expertise around **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** I do not like Not as open as it need to be with other platfoems **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multi-Node clusters with schedules synchronizations ### 27. The basic of appliction servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Its a solid application server, stable and well supported **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The strategy to stay on the actuell Java version **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** All customer based frontends are based on it ### 28. hosting websphere **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** I like the support online when I have an issue. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** not intuative when I first start to set it up **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** migration to websphere from other platforms ### 29. I have been using Webshpere for the last 12 years **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Robust and production ready. Integrates well with other IBM products. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Lot of plug ins takes for ever to start up. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise Java application development and deployment. ### 30. :Application Server with lot of capabilities and ease of use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Admin interface with ability to manage applications **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Not enough information about the resource environment providers and the documentation **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Script interface is really good for Continuous integration ### 31. Websphere is the best for enterprise applications. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** - Stability -High avalibility - best performance on AIX POWER Servers. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Has some problems with Deployment manager deployments on Windows **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multiplatform and distrubted applications deployment. ### 32. Data Replication **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Currently, we have the traditional IBM WebSphere Application Server to setup on the Cloud yet. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** I like the product IBM WebSphere Application Server. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Convenient ### 33. Dependable Server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** MQ can be done through web or command line. love it **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** keep changing names i alsways refer to it a mq services **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** messaging on demand ### 34. websphere portal **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** i have used websphere portal in my previous job and it has lot of features **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** needs restart after code deployment and config change **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** create portal ### 35. WAS Cloud Novice **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** The information available for IBM Cloud Private **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Need more info. have not had a chance to implement in ibm cloud **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** security on applications ### 36. Install Docs need improvement **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Lets me attend IBM Think on Company dime **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Very difficult install of add on components - ITNCM & JAZZ **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** NOI Suite ### 37. Websphere Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Agility and opensource tools integration is wonderful. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** I would like to see IBM continued embracement of opensource. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enable Native Cloud adoption. ### 38. Industry workhorse **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Websphere has continued to evolve and stay relevant **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Can be cumbersome and overweight at times **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributed, rapid application deployment. ### 39. Fast, reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Speed, reliability, ease of use and deploy **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Complicated web console, lack of reading server status **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** SOAP services, ESB ### 40. Good Java application server **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suresh Balaji D. | Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** This tool was out in the market for a long time and is very stable compared to the other tools in the market. It evolves each year and has good integration with other IBM tools. The deployment in the server is very easy. I have been using this product in my company for many years and really happy with the stability and the features that are added each year. Their provided scripting platform is quite powerful and robust **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Setting up the server is little complex and needed better documentation **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** Try this tool if you want a one stop solution and a stable product **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a one stop solution for all integration and this product was aptly suited for that ### 41. Fine, fine. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrea B. | IT Programmer Analyst, Non-Profit Organization Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** I liked that it connected the things I needed connected. It is built to do a specific task and is able to do that specific task. When using IBM software suite you kind of need WAS to do your job. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** I disliked not being able to reuse a lot of the processes that I would follow for redundant tasks. I think this has gotten better though. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using the IBM software suite and needed to connected some of the pieces. WAS was able to do this for me. ### 42. IBM WAS Review **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh S. | Salesforce Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** To be honest; I don't like the product at all. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Deployment is tedious, Development is time taking, support is a nightmare. **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** Never consider WAS, worst product ever seen in my life. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have hosted all our microservices in IBM WAS. ### 43. WebSphere Application Server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** WebSphere Application Server Is a app server like other 3rd party products but IBM has very easy installation and upgrade process compared to other products even you can update the product in online easily. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Websphere AppServer restart or starting up is taking more time compared to other products. They are releasing many Fix Packs and Patches, it is very difficult compare to other products. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Yes, I would like to go to cloud to avoid the regular updates with hardware, and bump of availability easily without add hardware in on-site of my data center. ### 44. Great java application server **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Tobacco | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** This is probably the most stable application server I've ever run. Package deployment on the fly is a cinch, but where it really excels at is integration; if you're running any other IBM software (MQ, DB2, ...) integration is built into it, offering you capabilities you wouldn't achieve with other application servers **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** This server is not for the faint of heart, setting it up can be scary, when faced with all these settings and options. But don't worry, once you get to know and understand them, you'll wonder how you could do without. Also, and this issue is with all IBM products, licensing! **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** If your business is dependent on running a Java stack to operate, don't cheap out. Yes, the free stuff is great, but think how does downtime, issues, actually cost you. It will far outweigh the cost of running websphere application server. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this as part of our integration layer, running all webservices. We have over 20k transactions going through it on a daily basis, on a single instance of the server. ### 45. Versatile, complex web server **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric A. | Full Stack Developer (contract), Automotive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Makes writing a complete, complex multi-tier web application almost easy! Provides many facilities to handle every aspect of an enterprise web system. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Can be overly difficult to make small changes and deploy them. Lots to learn, so the curve is shallow. **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** Definitely look at it-it's a one-stop solution. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster time to market for changes. Consistent UI across product lines. Consolidated administration. ### 46. Excellent App Server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahesh R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** In 8.5 version generating the dumps and dynamic cluster. Etc...Deployment of application is pretty easy.It provides a simple wizard to set up the server for a Maximo application. It guides you step by step from selecting the server type (Database, Directory and J2EE ), the setup server and node details, server administrative details, and port setting. It would automatically deploy it on the target machine. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Some of the concepts are good for complexity that WAS can handle but could be simplified and better documented, like concepts of well and profile, context, etc.Messaging functionalities are little bit complicated **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Effective cost, availability, scalability ### 47. Great advantage App server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** the framework style development process that fits almost all criteria and requirements. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** In cases, it's too rigid, have to fit business requirements or code it out. **Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere:** Great application server to build products on. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We made a portal, 99.99% uptime, reduced development effort. ### 48. My experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** Java supported, easy to build and manage websites. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** Depth limit and limit of portal is an issue for me. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used it for the brocasting channel software and as far its good but there are some limitations though. ### 49. Usage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** We have WebSphere v8.5.5.x deployed in our environment. We have migrated from several versions back to v5.x. Migration process has improved immensely over the different versions. The product also has improved in stability as well. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The cost for Network Deployment version. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stable product that I can count on keeping up with latest updates of standards. ### 50. IBM WAS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?** The management via admin console and the way it is organized. **What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?** The cost for Network Deployment version. **What problems is IBM WebSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can run any kind of applications on WAS ## 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?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-04+11%3A28%3A28+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c477e81a-2ad5-4258-a034-58df1f7005bb&secure%5Btoken%5D=a52a0d8727da82b1beed43fc38a2e8a0bae3902a45eca7695b01df3ed0ed282c&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 - [Apache Tomcat](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-tomcat/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (126 reviews) - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (933 reviews) - [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,345 reviews)