We performed a comparison between IBM WebSphere Application Server and WebLogic Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure 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."
"WebSphere Application Server's best features include the data subscription and connection viewer."
"This solution is easy to use with a GUI that is intuitive and very helpful."
"It has good stability of the application server in the long term compared to other solutions."
"Without the Admin Console it would be very hard to configure JVM settings, JDBC datasources, mail session settings, and security providers."
"Network Deployment is the most useful feature for scalability. It has many features within the standard WebSphere Application Server edition."
"High availability, alert management, and deployments are the most valuable features for us. We have the ND version so we can do deployments."
"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."
"The solution is useful for centralizing data."
"Robust solution; console and enterprise management tools are really easy to work."
"The most valuable feature of WebLogic is it has excellent performance and stability compared to the previous solution we used."
"The solution is very scalable. It's easy to add processes even if you are new to the solution."
"It easily connects to other Oracle products and services."
"This is a robust solution."
"The program is scalable."
"WebLogic adds a lot of value to business and investments."
"While WebSphere mostly supports IBM HTTP Server (IHS) as the web server plugin, I think it would be beneficial if it also supported Apache and NGINX web servers. That would give customers more flexibility in their choices."
"The availability of the solution needs improvement."
"The solution could improve the integration."
"When compared with WebLogic, Weblogic is lighter and consumes less memory."
"Initial setup is very simple. Just use the IBM Installation Manager and add the packages. The install wizard takes care of the rest. The only thing that can be difficult is to find the right packages on the IBM website, because of all the changes that IBM does on its website(s)."
"Some things are very difficult to do, so the interface and usage could be more intuitive for those."
"IBM needs to pay attention to market changes more quickly. We now have Java 9 and very soon Java EE8. We do not want to wait for two or three years after their release until they are supported by the new version."
"The current trend is to move to Liberty because of the portability of its cloud and its Kubernetes, which containerize the application."
"Sometimes there are issues when we work on a VM because people use it to put all of their reports on it at the same time. Then I have to restart and rebuild the machine."
"Support could be better. The expertise when we have some Oracle WebLogic issues and challenges is not there. The issues are not being addressed in time. This really needs to be improved going forward."
"I noticed a few areas for improvement in WebLogic Suite. If you use the pure play higher-availability features, then yes, it can be switched over to the other system from the high-availability point of view, but that comes with a certain price. If you prefer simpler high-availability, that requires manual intervention. I'd also recommend a tuning feature in WebLogic Suite because it's not self-tuning, and this means you need thorough expertise to do the tuning and leverage the best benefit out of it. If Oracle makes WebLogic Suite automated or self-driven, then it becomes a wonderful product, similar to what Oracle did for the Autonomous Database which is self-driven or has an autonomous operating system. If automation is added in the next release of the solution, combined with more affordable pricing, though as a technical person, I know how much goes into having automation as a feature, and it could be difficult to lower the price, but if Oracle can do it, then that would make WebLogic Suite better."
"The support is not good."
"I would like to see the licensing policy simplified."
"Lacking a solution for smaller applications."
"The restart capability needs to be improved because it takes us 15 minutes to restart any application."
"This solution doesn't have connectors to other external applications."
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IBM WebSphere Application Server is ranked 5th in Application Infrastructure with 26 reviews while WebLogic Suite is ranked 11th in Application Infrastructure with 31 reviews. IBM WebSphere Application Server is rated 7.8, while WebLogic Suite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM WebSphere Application Server writes "Compatible, stable, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WebLogic Suite writes "Simple setup, reliable, and performs well". IBM WebSphere Application Server is most compared with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server and IBM BPM, whereas WebLogic Suite is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, Microsoft .NET Framework, Oracle WebCenter, Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus. See our IBM WebSphere Application Server vs. WebLogic Suite report.
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