# IBM Cloud Functions Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-platform-as-a-service-paas) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About IBM Cloud Functions Based on Apache OpenWhisk, IBM Cloud Functions is a polyglot functions-as-a-service (FaaS) programming platform for developing lightweight code that scalably executes on demand. ## IBM Cloud Functions Reviews ### 1. IBM Cloud Functions User Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Functions?** IBM Cloud Function is an excellent tool for overall data processing and representation. It is good for high demand data processing as well as documentation. It is very reliable and cost-efficient as well. Along with this, it works well with external service providers and is easy to learn even for beginners. It also has a wide variety of services for light weight micro systems. The documentation overall was easy to learn and displayed well in our system. The integration of the system was good as well. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Functions?** I think there should be more UI additions so it is easier to find events and have it more organized. I think it would also be better if it included more ML additions. I think there could also be more improvements from integration in services. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Functions:** Overall the product is good for scaling well and smoothly. IBM Cloud Functions also have a slight cost reduction when the application you are preparing doesn't' require said functions to be present. **What problems is IBM Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is good for application development and mobile development. It is also good for working with external service providers. For mobile development, it is especially useful for the backend portion of it. ### 2. Cost effective solution in cloud based solutions. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Functions?** I liked the feature that it works very well even without many manual interventions from dev and support sentimental analysis to analyse the chats is a very good function from ICF. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Functions?** Even though it is supporting most of the functions effectively ,still it needs some more support and need to be integrated to receive some events from services like mongoDB and NOSQL dbs. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Functions:** It is a very best option for lightweight micro service development for cloud based applications. If you are in need of integrating with many external service providers then ICF is a good choice to make. **What problems is IBM Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using IBM cloud functions to create enterprise level platforms to do event based processing. We are using ICF to get the data from backend systems also . ### 3. IBM Cloud Functions - Function as a Service (FaaS) Platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** anna r. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Functions?** IBM cloud functions are based on OpenWhisk . Apache OpenWhisk’s triggers which are used to launch serverless apps deployed on its platform are based on either webhooks or polling using a predefined schedule. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Functions?** Services like AWS Lambda are more scalable than IBM Cloud function service as it has also the support of AWS S3 . AWS Lambda and Azure Functions target their offerings as what Google Cloud and OpenWhisk can do, and they can be launched via an incoming event from one of many sources or by leveraging a schedule. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Functions:** OpenWhisk has an idea called sustains which include recovering a flood of information from a source framework. A feed can be fleeting and overseen inside the serverless capacity, or utilize an idea called associations which use an outside supplier with a determined association with the source framework **What problems is IBM Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using IBM to trigger a IoT application like when sensor passes certain value , IBM Function is triggered and the notification is send to cloud to perform certain actions . ### 4. Programming platform for data processing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Functions?** This is most useful and better product with compare to the other product in the market This is cost effective in all the cloud based solution Works well for virtual agent platform for high demand data processing **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Functions?** The support is not upto the mark . IBM cloud function is not good solution where an application is not in fine grained services and functions **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Functions:** Take advantage of this product **What problems is IBM Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM cloud function are good when we need integration with many external service provider It is most useful and best product compare with other data processing ### 5. Very easy to use interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan W. | Insurance Sales Representative, Insurance, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Functions?** Simple, user-friendly interface that was fairly easy to learn. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Functions?** Not enough functionality, color schemes weren’t very appealing **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Functions:** Great to use **What problems is IBM Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Made storing important files easy to manage and also cloud sharing made things very easy for my co workers to access important shared documents ### 6. For the slickest and wizziest Cloud Solution go to IBM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Functions?** The platform is totally smooth and slick and there is no patching - its all thought out with colorful graphics too! **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Functions?** Extremely expensive subscription and hopefully very saturated market will drive prices down **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Functions:** Check pricing but with IBM, you get what you pay for.....truly. **What problems is IBM Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overall a Cloud storage function is somewhere date is stored so it allows masses of data to be safely stored and collated with minimal risk of security breaches ### 7. Amazing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Functions?** Simplicity, ease of use. A good competition to AWS. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Functions?** Sometimes gets complicated, as in complex to understand to for newbies. **What problems is IBM Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Greatly quicken the process of our deployment. We were using aws but now we are using ibm. ### 8. Easy and secure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Functions?** Ease of use. Tracks for you. Technology is advanced. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Functions?** Not too much. It does shut dowb every now and then. Nothing a reboot wont fix **What problems is IBM Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows me to back up critical information ### 9. Great software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Functions?** Ease of use across team members and levels. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Functions?** We frequently need to run software in the field and software doesn't run well on data plans. **What problems is IBM Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving and sharing work with others. ### 10. Easy, but neet improvements **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evandro P. | System Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Functions?** It's easy to use and has a great documentation. The web dashboard is easy do manage and the CLI too. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Functions?** The functions orchestrator adds too much overhead for each call of function. **What problems is IBM Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Event based architecture, mobile backend - [View IBM Cloud Functions pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloud-functions/reviews/ibm-cloud-functions-review-890039?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-06+00%3A07%3A54+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=1d5e3672-9ccb-41be-aaa3-71f6f91316ef&secure%5Btoken%5D=b6ab0d5d11c77570fd74665745343d84a4f2e6f88cee3d7e108b3b00e9bfa9a7&format=llm_user) ## IBM Cloud Functions Features **Development** - Application Deployment - Development Tools - Development Environment - Language Support - Testing **Database** - Database Management - Analytics - Auto Scaling - Backup / Recovery - Storage **Infrastructure** - Networking - Virtual Machines - Security ## Top IBM Cloud Functions Alternatives - [AWS Lambda](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (900 reviews) - [Agentforce 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)](https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-360-platform-formerly-salesforce-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,771 reviews) - [Kinsta](https://www.g2.com/products/kinsta/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (1,436 reviews)