We performed a comparison between IBM WebSphere Application Server and IIS 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."IBM WebSphere Application Server is one of the best servers due to its stability and paid license."
"Network Deployment is the most useful feature for scalability. It has many features within the standard WebSphere Application Server edition."
"The scalability of the product is quite good."
"The only reason why we're currently using WebSphere is that the integration of the authentication with Azure is very quick. WebSphere has something that can immediately connect with Azure Active Directory."
"IBM WebSphere Application Server is the best in terms of scalability and performance, as well as the support for managing distributed transactions."
"As compared to other applications, it has tremendous support. We have built internal capability so that we use it extensively internally. It is also easier to use with the outside data. You can write in ESQL, Java, or any other technology that you want to use for development. So, it is a lot more flexible in the language that it supports."
"Starting with version 8, WAS provides a special folder called monitor deployment. Once you put the .war or .ear file in there, it is deployed automatically without human intervention. This greatly helps us in our continuous integration server. Once the deployment binary is ready, we write a script to copy it to that folder and then, voila! The application is up and running and accessible from its context root."
"It has good stability of the application server in the long term compared to other solutions."
"The solution is simple and very easy to manage compared to Linux."
"The solution is easy to use and connects with Microsoft."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It has an intuitive user interface and provides a lot of options for building reports."
"All the features of Microsoft IIS are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of IIS is it does not consume a lot of resources. It does not consume a lot of resources, such as memory."
"IIS is scalable."
"The graphical user interface makes it easy for users to configure the sites."
"The current trend is to move to Liberty because of the portability of its cloud and its Kubernetes, which containerize the application."
"The installation has room for improvement."
"The availability of the solution needs improvement."
"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."
"The solution consumes hardware."
"WebSphere Application Server doesn't have an automated deployment option, forcing us to use third-party tools like Jenkins UCD and Palo Automated Deployment."
"Installing or configuring a WAS server instance as a Windows Service causes a lot of problems, especially when the server needs credentials to stop."
"Sometimes, I feel WebSphere runs a bit slow. It might be loading unnecessary libraries, impacting its performance compared to other application servers."
"Presently, some developers do not have technical knowledge of managing IIS, so that needs to be improved in the next release."
"Sometimes, we encounter difficult issues, and getting support from Microsoft to resolve those issues is not easy."
"I am using an older version of Windows Server IIS and the general management and navigation to get something done is not as straightforward as I hope it to be. The interface could be improved."
"I would like to see NLB features in IIS."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"The solution should improve the cluster environment and load balancing."
"IIS has some stability issues and needs restarting."
"Performance-wise, certain improvements in IIS are needed...IIS is not scalable. Its scalability is less."
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IBM WebSphere Application Server is ranked 5th in Application Server with 26 reviews while IIS is ranked 4th in Application Server with 53 reviews. IBM WebSphere Application Server is rated 7.8, while IIS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM WebSphere Application Server writes "Compatible, stable, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IIS writes " A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps". IBM WebSphere Application Server is most compared with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Fusion Middleware, whereas IIS is most compared with NGINX Plus, Apache Web Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat and Windows Process Activation Services. See our IBM WebSphere Application Server vs. IIS report.
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