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    IBM Cloud Pak for Applications

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Pak® for Applications (CP4Apps) is an end-to-end hybrid cloud application platform, providing flexibility for deployments, building new cloud-native applications, refactoring and re-platforming existing applications. Designed to leverage a collection of application runtimes, modernization tools and a Kubernetes container platform to adapt to their landscape needs.N/A

    IBM Integration Bus

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AIBM Integration Bus, replacing the former WebSphere Message Broker, is used to connect applications together, regardless of the message formats or protocols that they support. This connectivity helps to ensure diverse applications can interact and exchange data with other applications in a flexible, dynamic, and extensible infrastructure.N/A
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
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    7.2
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    User Testimonials
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    IBM
    Well suited for customers who are looking for cloud-adoption, and finally to meet the challenges of business innovation for the competitive advantage through DevOps.
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    IBM
    Routing, protocol transformation, message transformation and service aggregation are very well performed by WebSphere Message Broker (WMB). It is not very suitable for integration with databases.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Provides a fantastic range of Application runtimes allowing the most suitable runtime to be selected for the app being implemented.
    • After using Transformation Advisor for quite a while, it is an indispensable tool to help modernize, specifically from WebSphere and Tomcat, towards the lightweight, fast and efficient Liberty runtime.
    • The simplicity of the licensing by wrapping many products into a single offering with a different VPC weighting.
    • Allows us to modernize our runtime from WebSphere Application Server (or ND) to WebSphere Liberty core without sacrificing our WAS licenses.
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    IBM
    • Graphical data mapper
    • Support for different programming languages
    • Integration with MQ
    • Support for different parsers
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    Cons
    IBM
    • User Experience and Learning Curve
    • Integration with Third-party Tools
    • Pricing and Licensing Model
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    IBM
    • Logging
    • Debugging
    • Code quality tools
    • Feature specific installation
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    IBM
    Our customer mission-critical core banking applications like Temenos T24 run on best of the breed IBM WebSphere Application Server which is java based-application server. IBM has kept up the promise of providing support, fixpack, and any update. As far as I know, at least by 2030, IBM is committed to continue with WHE which gives customers confidence in their current investments.
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    IBM
    Websphere message broker supports a lot more protocols than any other similar tool.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • We have been able to migrate apps away from the expensive WAS-ND to the more cost-effective WAS-base without throwing away our WAS-ND licenses. With a 1:4 ratio of WAS-ND to WAS-base we've been able to we've been able to save in excess of 75% on licensing charges for these apps.
    • By having a license model based on VPC ratios (1:4:8 - WAS-ND:WAS-base:Liberty core) we've been able to move away from using license pooling resulting in over-allocating (i.e. wasting) CPU cores for each license pool, to using consolidated license pools hosting a combination of WAS-ND, WAS-base and Liberty-core. This has allowed us to reduce our licensing costs accordingly.
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    IBM
    • It helped us in improving the speed to market for our services/APIs.
    • Learning curve is quite long
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