Microsoft Application Server (deprecated) vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid

Regardless of the environment, Microsoft Application Server is used to manage internal applications. Installing legacy software on the computers of end-users is a cinch with this solution. It provides a central location for updating and managing legacy applications. It is less valuable if you're using only web-based and cloud-based apps.

It fits perfectly for SOA and EAI architecture with large numbers of services that required to be wired to each other, the binding virtualization is quite good to simply this part. For the simple scenario of orchestration and /or ESB architecture could be a better use traditional stack.

Incentivized

• Microsoft Application Server has been very stable. We have had very few issues with downtime except for updates.
• We now have a central location to manage and update our legacy apps without the need to install each app on each user's system.
• Application performance is surprisingly very good and responsive even in bandwidth restricted environments.

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• reduce the number of http port required by services
• simplified the binding connection amongst services
• high scalability and fast deployment of applications

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• Wished Microsoft would offer better support options that are cheaper.
• Updates sometimes require restarts which cause downtime.
• More support for 3rd part software vendors.

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• health check of services and application features has been released with a lot of bugs that have never been fixed
• it is not so simple to apply the security policy to service/reference binding

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I have found Microsoft Application Server to be incredibly easy to use. I have used dozens of similar programs and have always struggled to navigate through all the functions. So far I have been able to adapt and learn this software with ease. I rarely run into a problem that I wasn’t easily able to move forward on with a few tips.

MS Application Server has been great for our company it has enabled us to free up IT staff and lowered the maintenance costs of our internal application maintenance.

Incentivized

Microsoft Application Server has stood out to me because it has been so easy to use and utilize for our organization. I was not involved in the integration but being a user I can say that it has made a huge impact to how we access and utilize our databases. I have found that using Microsoft Application Server has increased my productivity. I spend less time navigating and waiting for things to load.

TIBCO service grid has been chosen as a natural selection of the TIBCO product evolution. The high flexibility and the binding virtualization fits very well with client needs for its EAI applications due to the huge number of services and applications, the management of application dependencies during deployment, the advantage of perfect integration with EMS for logging

Incentivized

• MS Application Server has been great for our ROI since it has reduced dedicating IT resources to maintaining legacy applications on end-users systems.
• We have been able to have a central location for all our legacy and on-prem applications.
• Our IT operations have been able to greatly improve efficiencies.

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• The integration of old BW with BWSE and its interface quite similar to design time has reduced the cost of training for developers
• The TIBCO support for this product is no the best and clients complains too much about this. This required to find a workaround or force the client to move to new/or different product. Huge impact on ROI

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