IBM WebSphere Application Server Valuable Features
IBM WebSphere Application Server is one of the best servers due to its stability and paid license. I have never encountered any issues when installing and deploying applications, as it never goes down.
Currently, there are two versions of WebSphere Application Server: the old version, known as WebSphere Application ND, and the newer version, Liberty, which is Docker-based. I have experience with both and have never encountered any issues. I believe that WebSphere Application Server is a great feature.
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reviewer1662720
Yapı Kredi şirketinde Application Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very stable and robust.
Management is very easy in the Network Deployment edition. The admin console allows one to easily manage many servers.
Network Deployment is the most useful feature for scalability. It has many features within the standard WebSphere Application Server edition.
WebSphere's security meets our application's needs. For security, we can integrate WebSphere with LDAP. Additionally, we can configure SSO certificates or third-party certificates for secure communication between our application and even the database.
We can use SSL certificates to secure both frontend and backend connections. Combined with LDAP and SSL certificates, the security features are excellent.
Integration capabilities are good. That's a key strength of WebSphere. It integrates easily with various other software vendors, which is why many companies use it.
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reviewer1970751
Solutions Architect at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees
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.
View full review »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.
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PRINCEWILL OPARA
Head Banking Application Customization and Reporting at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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.
View full review »IBM WebSphere Application Server is easy to use.
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reviewer2255328
Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
I am highly satisfied with the robust security features integrated into this solution. Its fine-grained access control, authentication, and authorization mechanisms ensure a smooth performance.
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Gurvijay Bhatti
Senior Solutions Architect at Department of Justice
Stability, high availability, alert management, and deployments are the most valuable features for us.
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reviewer1792863
Enterprise Technical Leader at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The thing about WebSphere, as opposed to other ones that I am aware of such as JBoss and Liberty, is that WebSphere has the most comprehensive scaffolding available to it.
A lot of JVM container products provide you with a raw JVM container and don't offer much else. However, WebSphere has the PRPC, which has extensive console capabilities, including the ability to control multiple JVM containers and the deployment. It's an enterprise-level product.
WAS is not what I would want if I were a small shop with two or three WAS servers or app servers. However, if I had 4,000 servers and wanted to install JVMs on them, WAS is a viable option. In my opinion, its strength is its enterprise capability.
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Eric Chew
Senior Business Development Manager at SL Information System Sdn Bhd
One of the most valuable features might be the stability of the IBM WebSphere Application Server.
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reviewer932178
Maximo - Technical Consultant/Architect/Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees
I would not compare WebSphere and WebLogic because both servers are really good.
However, once you have set up both of them, they work perfectly.
There are always bugs, such as the recent bug with log4j, but they're both good web servers. I can make use of either one, it makes no difference. It's just a different setting, but I'd say the quality is the same.
I am satisfied with this solution, as well as WebLogic. Both are good.
The performance is good.
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reviewer2326761
Web Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The VPN service is quite useful. Our main application runs on a close integration with Jira platforms. To access it remotely, we need WebSphere and a VPN server.
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reviewer1215750
Sen. Fab Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution's data consistency is great. It's very reliable. This is important for a transitional scenario. It is critical for us, so data consistency is the most important feature that we count on.
The user interface is reliable.
The scalability of the product is quite good.
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reviewer1343838
Service Relationship Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
WebSphere connects with old legacy systems, like CICS and TX Series that typically run on the mainframe environment and that must be integrated with open systems.
This solution is easy to use with a GUI that is intuitive and very helpful.
You have the ability to do a lot of things with the commands.
View full review »It's scalable and very reliable.
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reviewer1378179
Head, Operations at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We've had so many challenges with the solution in the last two years that it's a bit difficult to find highlights.
It does integrate well with the Tivoli Federated Identity Management system.
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GanapathyElumalai
Principal Architect with 1-10 employees
The solution is robust. The connection management and the scalability, which IBM provides to the Stack, are also valuable.
View full review »The solution has good performance.
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reviewer851559
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features are its user-friendliness and reliability in terms of application hosting.
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SherifHassan
Application Integration Engineer at EFG-Hermes
The most valuable feature is the configuration of the application server. It has a variety of configuration database certificates and connection pools. It has good stability of the application server in the long term compared to other solutions.
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reviewer1319055
Sap Financial Accounting Senior Consultant at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
WebSphere Application Server's best features include the data subscription and connection viewer.
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solution259344
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
- Stability: Once you deploy your application, it will be very stable with no issues at all.
- Ease of administration: It has an Integrated Solutions Console, what we call the administrative console, with very detailed configurations and Help pages for each configurable item.
- Up to date: Once a security vulnerability has been discovered, IBM patches it quickly, and later includes it in a bigger fix or update.
- Security: It is compatible with the latest Java 8 security features, supports FIPS 140-2 and NIST SP 800-53 with strong ciphers and cryptography keys, and supports TLS 1.2 completely. Also, configuring client and server certificates is relatively easy.
The Admin Console is most valuable to us since we have to use it to configure the application server for using it as middleware for our IBM FileNet, IBM Content Navigator and IBM Case Manager software stack. Without the Admin Console it would be very hard to configure JVM settings, JDBC datasources, mail session settings, and security providers.
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Akkari Fay
Director of Operations at ufi
The most valuable feature of this solution is Portal Virtualization.
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