HCL Connections Stability

Hasnain Zahid - PeerSpot reviewer
Talent acquisition & development specialist at Software Productivity Strategists, Inc. (SPS)

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Sometimes, the portal hangs because I find that if I am on a web page, I have to log out, and then I have to log in to the portal again. Since I see that the portal hangs at times, I have to move from one side of the portal to the next, making me feel that some things are scattered in the product. I attended a meeting with IBM recently, and they are improving a few of the things, in my opinion. The concerns that I have related to the product are being improved since I think many other users have reported issues similar to the ones I faced.

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it_user616575 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst/Programmer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

It is stable and reliable.

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it_user568380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

We did not encounter any stability issues. The platform has been very stable and reliable.

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Senior Analyst - Messaging & Mobility at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

We did encounter some stability issues. However, IBM works closely with its customers to manage that well.

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it_user616566 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of technology at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
it_user616569 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems admin at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's quite stable and there is no downtime.

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it_user616590 - PeerSpot reviewer
Web Development Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had a few issues, but overall the stability has been pretty good. Probably, my confidence level in the stability is around 75-80% at this point.

We've had some PMRs around some of the docs loading slowly, editing and formatting. We have open PMRs. We're trying to get those closed now.

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it_user541287 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not encounter any stability issues.

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it_user539625 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Social Network Community Manager at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Episodes of instability are not uncommon. For this reason, talking about on-premise installations, it is essential to have a good technical partner, if it is not possible to acquire internally the specific technical competence.

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AH
Social Business Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

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RD
Project Manager | Business Consultant | Learning & Development | Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We did not have issues with stability.

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it_user535224 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Digital and Mobile Strategy at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not had any stability problems.

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it_user616611 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Crewing, HR shore, Staff and Support at Seatrans ship management as

We have had no downtime.

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it_user616617 - PeerSpot reviewer
It architect for collaboration and mobile at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think it's very stable.

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it_user616599 - PeerSpot reviewer
VIP it and security at Imagining business machines llc

It is not as stable as I would like it to be. But, mostly it is a lot more complicated than the Domino platform that we've been on for many years and because of that, with more moving parts, there are more things that can go wrong.

Overall, it is a pretty solid product. We don't have a whole lot of issues with it. Also, IBM has generally worked to try and get any of those issues resolved through their feature packs and fix packs.

We're on the latest release, so obviously at this stage, there are more problems than if you're a little bit farther behind.

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it_user635457 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Running in a self-hosted private cloud, there were no significant issues regarding stability. 

Connections is now available as a service for those who need a turnkey implementation, i.e., IBM Connections Cloud.

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it_user616572 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead messaging and collaboration at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a very stable solution, because we have done both on-premise as well as the cloud part of it, and traditionally, from the Connections standpoint, there have been no outages.

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it_user244470 - PeerSpot reviewer
Social Business Consultant at a integrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user619791 - PeerSpot reviewer
Collaboration Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

The forums struggled to keep up when multiple users posted information.

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it_user616587 - PeerSpot reviewer
System administrator at a wholesaler/distributor with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability seems great from what I've been told and from what I've seen. I've never seen any outages, really, other than some planned maintenance on emails we get occasionally. Other than that, it seems great.

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it_user616578 - PeerSpot reviewer
Connections administrator

So far, it's very stable, depending on your implementation of it. We've been at it now for, probably, three years. The stability and the capability is getting better with every version.

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it_user535221 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user500193 - PeerSpot reviewer
Division Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I had some problems on earlier releases; in 4.5, I’ve only noticed some browser incompatibilities.

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it_user506664 - PeerSpot reviewer
IBM QRadar Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The stability is quite high. We have had some crash issues in the past, but IBM Support did a tremendous job for us at the time to find the issues which caused the platform to crash.

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it_user502014 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nope IBM Connections is running over WebSphere application server so it is usually up and running

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it_user504069 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Portal Architect/Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user636987 - PeerSpot reviewer
IBM Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

If IBM Connections is properly tuned with the environment and load in mind, it tends to be stable.

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it_user616593 - PeerSpot reviewer
E-business Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had some load time and performance issues with concurrent users. The page was just not coming up.

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it_user615213 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO with 51-200 employees

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

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it_user639681 - PeerSpot reviewer
IBM Technical Software Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In some scenarios, slow performance can be a tough point to tackle. Regarding stability, there were no issues there. Everything runs on WebSphere, which is a pretty reliable platform.

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it_user616563 - PeerSpot reviewer
Process consultant at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's very stable; there is no downtime as far as I've seen.

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it_user506652 - PeerSpot reviewer
Social Business Advisor at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

All versions are developed on WebSphere Application Server. When we have a well-done installation and configuration, I can confirm that it is very stable and scalable for large environments.

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it_user649998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sharepoint Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We did encounter stability issues a few times here and there.

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it_user541275 - PeerSpot reviewer
Rational Rollout at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user616596 - PeerSpot reviewer
Services projects and European it at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have it on premise, so we control the stability. We have had issues with tuning and configuration. The best practice isn't always clear about how to configure it and make it work when it scales. We control the tin, but I'd say that probably there's a gap at the moment in best practice recommendations.

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it_user616608 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Bank Data

Stability is not good. We've been having a lot of problems lately with the fulfillments.

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it_user507975 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Solutions Architect at a tech consulting company with self employed

None if the system is configured correctly

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it_user616614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Accounting manager at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

Stability is perfect.

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it_user549546 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were a few stability issues.

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it_user478554 - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Architect at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
it_user134814 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
it_user616605 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability is good.

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it_user464814 - PeerSpot reviewer
IBM Infrastructure and IBM Escalation at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There were never any issues with stability. It’s fully clustered.

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it_user135657 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
No, but some minor browser related issues especially with Microsoft IE. View full review »
it_user616584 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

The stability is very good.

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it_user539469 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lotus Software Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

I did not encounter any stability issues.

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it_user616602 - PeerSpot reviewer
System administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It is pretty stable.

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