We performed a comparison between IBM WebSphere Application Server and Oracle WebCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Server solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What's most valuable in IBM WebSphere Application Server is its resilience. When you use the solution, you know that after the communication has been done, there will be no doubt that the data has reached its destination."
"It does integrate well with the Tivoli Federated Identity Management system."
"The performance is good."
"High availability, alert management, and deployments are the most valuable features for us. We have the ND version so we can do deployments."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Portal Virtualization."
"IBM WebSphere Application Server is the best in terms of scalability and performance, as well as the support for managing distributed transactions."
"The solution is robust. The connection management and the scalability, which IBM provides to the Stack, are also valuable."
"Network Deployment is the most useful feature for scalability. It has many features within the standard WebSphere Application Server edition."
"You can move workloads in between sub-servers so that you don't overload a portion of the server."
"The WebCenter Content is its most valuable feature. After we update a document in WebCenter Content, it can be update automatically in our intranet."
"A great solution for storing and searching large volumes of documents with easy access."
"Oracle integrates well with other products to cover Big Data."
"WebCenter's interface is very user-friendly."
"Integration within the solution is very good."
"It's a very scalable solution and the performance is pretty good. The scalability, in my opinion, is the biggest advantage."
"I think that this is a good product but I think that the cloud environment could be improved. I think that the future is in the utilization of the product in a product as a service way which is something that is lacking at this moment."
"In spite of the solution's robustness, it is expensive and a bit difficult to support."
"When we run into memory or locking issues, we resort to using third-party tools. However, it would be preferable to have native tools for debugging this type of problem."
"What could be improved in IBM WebSphere Application Server is its interconnection with other products, for example, Kafka. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is a better graphical user interface."
"They should make the solution more lightweight and not bundle everything into a single product."
"Some things are very difficult to do, so the interface and usage could be more intuitive for those."
"The solution could improve the integration."
"It should be able to serve more concurrent requests like Oracle. Oracle has more powerful stability, availability, and real-time serving."
"This solution needs to support translation into the Arabic language."
"There are many document management systems that offer pretty much the same functionalities but at a lower price. The product as such is pretty good. However, the pricing is not comparable. They need to adjust their pricing to be more competitive on the market."
"I would like them to add more Web 2.0 features."
"The solution should be offered in Persian. Right now, our version is in English, and there's a bit of a language barrier between the users and the product."
"WebCenter requires a lot of design effort to upload content to our regular system."
"Does not seem to be totally compatible with Windows 10 as of our current version."
"Its functions need more stability."
"The speed of the backup should be enhanced."
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IBM WebSphere Application Server is ranked 5th in Application Server with 26 reviews while Oracle WebCenter is ranked 22nd in Customer Experience Management with 12 reviews. IBM WebSphere Application Server is rated 7.8, while Oracle WebCenter is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of IBM WebSphere Application Server writes "Compatible, stable, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle WebCenter writes "Gives me easy access, connection and compatibility with all of the Oracle products". IBM WebSphere Application Server is most compared with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server and IBM BPM, whereas Oracle WebCenter is most compared with Oracle Content Management, SharePoint, Adobe Experience Manager, WebLogic Suite and Liferay Digital Experience Platform. See our IBM WebSphere Application Server vs. Oracle WebCenter report.
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