Review on IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
May 20, 2024

Review on IBM Cloud Pak for Applications

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Pak for Applications

We provide consulting services to the customer who are running their java-based enterprise applications on WebSphere Application Server which is now come as IBM Cloud Pak for Applications bundling all WAS offerings for customers who can optimize their previous investments with this new WebSphere Hybrid Edition. With this, our customers have the option to adopt application modernization roadmap from traditional more expensive to light-weight cloud-native transformation. They can first take the path modernize their runtime of WAS to WebSphere Liberty with minimum footprint and faster startup time for applications.
Customers can take advantage of AI-based tools such as Transformation Advisor for the recommendations for modernizing java applications and understand the efforts required in transformation. Also, mono2micro tool can convert monolithic applications to microservices based architecture.
  • WebSphere Liberty for lighter footprint
  • Transformation Advisor
  • Mono2Micro
  • Customer can benefit from their investment by optimizing license offerings in IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
  • Documents and Tutorials should be generally available
  • Should be marketed in a more aggressive way
  • Positive impact: Business Innovation
  • Less to market solutions through DevOps and Cloud-native mindset
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.

Do you think IBM Cloud Pak for Applications delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Pak for Applications's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloud Pak for Applications live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Pak for Applications go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cloud Pak for Applications again?

Yes

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.