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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

6 months

Return on Investment

21 months

User Insights

Average based on 159 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

6 months

Perceived Cost

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Users consistently praise the product for its flexibility and scalability, making it suitable for various deployment environments, including cloud and on-premises. The robust features and strong security capabilities enhance its appeal for enterprise applications. However, many note a common limitation in its complex setup, which can pose challenges for new users.
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KL
Kevin L.
IT Specialist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"WebSphere In Government"
4/5
What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?

Centralized repository for updates, timely fixpacks, well supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?

Logging is not always descriptive, can be difficult to troubleshoot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JJ
jinnu j.
Systems Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Appplication server that always work"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?

Agility, performance, security aspects of the application server that served our business for almost 2 decades now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?

nothing much to dislike. trying to get the product to cloud now and see how that work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
AR
Verified User in Retail
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Even though there is now a lighter product"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?

Only working WebSphere for a few years, when configured properly, it is the most stable thing you want to use to run your applications or service. Looking forward to WLP having the same longevity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?

the setup time and the size, it has a very large foot print Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Utilities
AU
Verified User in Utilities
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"WebSphere is a great tool"
4.5/5
What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?

WebSphere is very robust and has the ability to allow you to support and customize JEE applications. We have a very large footprint of applications running on this platform and we are happy with the result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?

There are a few pieces I wish they opened up for easier control over, one of which is the SSL functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DP
David P.
Sr Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"WAS Liberty"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?

A lighter, more nimble client for automation developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?

It would be nice if Liberty exposed the same elements as traditional WAS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PN
Pete N.
Consultant
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Migrating your code"
4.5/5
What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?

Ease of migration when you have your code in WAS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?

The future of WAS is unclear at this point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SB
Saravanan b.
Saravanan Baskaran
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"user interface is convenient"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?

with the IBM support , we are able to install on our environment sooner and its is being used on our production Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?

nothing i could recollect now to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MK
Murali K.
Mr
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"IBM WAS"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?

The flexibility and simplicity of the product to create and maintain products in the web layer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?

Technically speaking, due to open nature of product, issues related to memory management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
EF
Verified User in Financial Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"WAS Across Platforms"
4/5
What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?

We use WAS across several platforms, including different versions/flavours of Windows, Linux and Unix. That allows us to define the best environment for a workload without having to have different skill sets on our Dev and Middleware teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?

Sometimes pricing can be prohibitive and other options allow us to scale without having to buy additional licenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance
AI
Verified User in Insurance
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good product, some enhancements can make it great."
5/5
What do you like best about IBM WebSphere?

The dynamic cluster concept and managing multiple application servers using one server template is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere?

The Dynamic Cluster operations when set to automatic mode can spin up 100's of JVM's and to stop them and to get everything under control is a bit painful. We have stopped using automatic operational mode for clusters because of this reason. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

6 months

Return on Investment

21 months

Average Discount

21%

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