IBM Blockchain Platform

Immutability - Transactions once made are there forever.

Distributed ledger - Allows customers to maintain their own copy of ledger by joining their node onto a blockchain network.

Security - Help secure sensitive data, users and devices can be authenticated using the public and private keys.

Provenance - Transactional history. Allows seamless dispute resolution.

More promotion towards hybrid cloud or private cloud could attract customers to host/maintain the blockchain networks with in their "own trusted" infrastructure.

Building prototypes on IBM Blockchain Platform and exporting importing them onto a private/hybrid cloud would be really great feature.

Both of the above features has their own CONs as it will lose the easy maintenance/upgrade of their blockchain networks more challenging. But not all customers can afford IBM Blockchain Platform costs and hence there must be a easy way of allowing them to setup the blockchain networks of their choice.

Rich repository of documentation

Amazing tools

Easy to understand

Fast to start

Good technical and sales support

Does not have a free trial

Some general error messages in extension of VS Code

The UI is quite intuitive and easy to learn how to use

Peer and chain code management is very useful and easy to understand

Both the VS Code extension and IBM Blockchain Platform work pretty well and complement each other

Sometimes when I try to instantiate a chain code, it won't let me and the error messages aren't clear so I can't work on a solution

When a peer is not working, it's hard to know why just from the console

Security

Reliability

Stability

Efficiency

Cost optimization

Starting and shutting down IBM Blockchain Platform--make it easier and more user friendly

IBM Blockchain Platform simplifies the whole process of deploying Hyperledger Fabric to business applications. Once you have understood the concepts of Hyperledger Fabric, IBM Blockchain Platform makes it straightforward in terms of deployment. The UIs are very intuitive and setting up the desired network is a matter of minutes.

Also, IBM Blockchain Platform maintains a very rich repository of documentation, which makes it easier for first-timers to get going. All of our developers were getting into blockchain for the first time, however, we found it very easy to follow the documentation to get started and then build our application taking cues from the documentation or the blogs.

IBM Blockchain Platform makes it easy to scale up the solution as network grows, a very important aspect to take the PoCs to production environment.

We did observe some idiosyncratic errors at times, those are difficult to reproduce. However, we have logged them as issues and have been resolved from IBM's side.

IBM Blockchain Platform Extension in VS Code provides very general error messages, which doesn't provide much insight. So, at times, it becomes difficult to identify the actual issue and resolve it.

Some of the the more nuanced but important topics such as Private Data Collection has fewer examples. We understand that most beginners may not be interested in them but when we take the solution to actual businesses, privacy concerns are paramount and these advances concepts come up in implementation.

Use of Hyperledger Fabric.

Integration with Web App Development.

Integrated Dashboard.

Clarifying concepts about contracts, Certificate Associations and other components.

Providing detailed information when an error occurs.

Managing edits.

Tracking changes.

Tracing originals.

Difficult to use.

Strong learning curve.

Slow to update.

Automated deployment and easy startup

Drastically reduces barrier to entry and dev time for those starting in Blockchain

Very clean UI, easy to manage the network

Free tiers are a blessing, but beyond that it can get very expensive very quickly (needs a starter package for startups with little money).

More live call/chat IBM support

Ready-made, as needed features are available to use, so we can focus on the functionality and leave the rest up to IBM.

Stable, as it is cloud-based and IBM takes care of the infrastructure

Future, we were using open source at first, but after less than a year, it was no longer an option. But we can trust IBM will continue to support blockchain as a technology partner.

Price, as it may a bit expensive to use

Local support, as IBM always uses global support where it is hard to get.

Good compatibly with vscode

Remove blockchain maintenance overheard

Great documentation provided

Easy web console

Dev env plan

Basic plan to include free tier

More chat support for this platform

This is a well managed private chain so, best in providing solutions to private organizations.

For an organization that manages a large amount of data, IBM Blockchain Platform is highly recommended.

Security-wise it's well designed to work with several organizations and consortia.

IBM Blockchain Platform dashboard can be better and fast.

Feature-wise many advanced features can be added for better management of IBM Blockchain Platform.

The certificate is difficult to handle and not auto-renewed when it's expired. It's a really difficult process to renew it.

User friendly.

High availability.

Easy to use.

Sometimes the administration page is unstable.

We had to migrate quickly from v1 to v2.

We almost lost the platform due to other priorities.

Private blockchain.

Hierarchical permission levels that are realistic when it comes to businesses.

Ability to write code using easy to use frameworks and tools.

Decentralized and distributed implementation.

Delimitation of interactions and metering.

Moving to less verbose more modern safe languages such as Kotlin, Rust, Swift, etc.

We need to create organizations, channels, and nodes dynamically through code. IBM Blockchain Platform makes this easier for us.

By using IBM Blockchain Platform, we gain the advantage of IBM's advanced tools that facilitate necessary activities such as governance.

Critical tasks such as installing and upgrading chain code and other related tasks are made easier by IBM Blockchain Platform.

IBM Blockchain Platform takes away many unknowns and helps us to plan the project with confidence.

More levels of pricing. I think the pricing is the number one deterrent. Also, the high cost of development and R&D causes customers to hesitate to commit to IBM Blockchain Platform.

Automated deployment with underlying infrastructure

Managed services

Takes very little time to start

Helps developers not familiar with infrastructure-related concepts as well

Some infrastructure deployments fail at launch, could be retried to launch again

More free tier credits for developers to get started with the service can be given :)

Some live use cases can be demonstrated for ideas and inspiration

Local testing environment

Clear deployment strategy

Solid support team backup

Improve trust and loyalty by making the mechanism of lock-in less obtuse and more transparent.

Stay up to date with the latest releases of the FOSS hyper ledge fabric.

Make multi-cloud deployments easier.

Being open-source means that thousands of developers are upgrading the platform.

Excellent management tools.

Strong IBM technical support.

AAIS is part of the IBM Blockchain Advisory Board. All of our input has been addressed around provisioning and cost.