IBM Cloud Foundry vs. Superblocks

IBM Cloud Foundry

IBM Cloud Foundry

94 Reviews and Ratings

Superblocks

Superblocks

3 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloud Foundry	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM Cloud Foundry is an IBM version of the open-source platform designed for building, testing, deploying, and scaling applications. Enterprises can run Cloud Foundry in a public isolated environment, while natively integrating with other IBM Cloud services, such as AI, Blockchain, and IoT.	$0.07 Per GBH
Superblocks	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	Superblocks is an IDE for internal tooling – a programmable set of building blocks for developers to create mission-critical internal operational software. The Superblocks Application Builder to assemble flexible components and connect to databases and APIs. Users can create REST, GraphQL, and gPRC endpoints call them programmatically from code or 3rd party web-hooks while Superblocks handles infrastructure.	$41 per month per creator

Pricing

IBM Cloud Foundry

Superblocks

Editions & Modules

Community Runtimes: $0.07
Per GBH

Starter: $41
per month per creator
Pro: $70
per month per creator
Enterprise: $141
per month per creator

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Foundry	Superblocks
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	IBM Cloud Foundry	Superblocks
Considered Both Products	IBM Cloud Foundry Amir Yaqoob Software Quality Assurance Engineer Chose IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Cloud Foundry is our first choice industry-standard platform as a service (PaaS) which has always provided us with quicker, simpler, and more consistent ways for the deployment of the cloud-native applications which in result saved us lots of time and money. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Cloud Foundry is easier and faster to get going and offers the same benefits we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Yatharth Garg Operations Coordinator Chose IBM Cloud Foundry Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, Azure Application Gateway and Azure App Service Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Foundry When I started with prototyping five months ago, I tried IBM Cloud Foundry and AWS, but finally I preferred IBM Cloud Foundry. I selected IBM Cloud Foundry because IBM service CLI is quite simple to use in devops. It works with the recent versions of Python and it's not … Incentivized Helpful? Alabi Temitope Software Engineer Chose IBM Cloud Foundry Why I prefer IBM Cloud Foundry platform over AWS Elastic Beanstalk or Heroku Platform is the automation of development process and pushing of projects to cloud with clear step by step instructions - which is available on the documentation. I can say categorically, the terminal … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Nortey Web Developer Chose IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Cloud Foundry is easy to use and allows for fast and easy deployment of web apps. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Cloud Foundry provides many programming languages. It is a managed service and it allows us to use only the resouces without the managed overhead. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Foundry Ease of use and all the capabilities we need are well built-in. Though we had to work around for p2p security and log draining which is not bad. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry has lot of benefits because platform as a service provided for the developers to implement applications based on the use cases. Different use cases required different buildpacks to run on. It has flexibility to code, push, and run flexibility. Provided ease of use … Incentivized Helpful? PM Priya Manivannan Software Engineer Chose IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, IBM Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda and IBM Connections Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Foundry We have had to move our deployments to Kubernetes because we needed more reliability. We moved to Google because IBM rates and billing was so backward and expensive. Our client was also very angry at all the outages, lost revenue, production down time and inordinately expensive … Incentivized Helpful? Kim Desrosiers Full-stack Developer Chose IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Cloud Foundry is among the services provided by our cloud provider. This is why we choose to go with Cloud Foundry. Incentivized Helpful? Deepak Kaul CTO Chose IBM Cloud Foundry While we are still looking at kubernetes and other services, we will continue to use Cloud Foundry because of the advantages it provides. The support from IBM is good and take a lot of work that our developers and ops had to do away. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Galvin Senior Manager Chose IBM Cloud Foundry AWS and Digital Ocean; Access to a larger pool of services; whatever your business needs, IBM provides it. Incentivized Helpful? Rajneesh Sehgal Deputy General Manager Chose IBM Cloud Foundry It is a cloud-based solution and for all my customers that want to migrate to cloud, this is the solution that we are proposing to customers, as it provides a lot of benefits over private cloud. Scalability and resiliency are not a major challenge and it can be used with other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Foundry CF is what we initially went with to establish a development pipeline and start our cloud journey, now we are expanding this and although we are now pulling in many other tools and functions around CF, it is not being replaced. It stands out as having a key place working ‘with’ … Incentivized Helpful? victor pease solano General Manager Chose IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Cloud Foundry (CF) is simpler and there is a service model that fits most of our internal services. We are going to Loopback for API and Node.js and we have an easy path to go with Bluemix. It's a very easy way to start if you are moving to the cloud and mainly if you are … Incentivized Helpful? Brett Bloethner Co-Founder & Front-End Engineer Chose IBM Cloud Foundry We chose to go with more bare metal options since Bluemix didn't really offer these at the time. It was simpler to get up and running with the bare metal service, and we felt that any problems we ran into would be a result of our own incompetence rather than problems with the … Incentivized Helpful? River Hain Solution Analyst — Machine Assisted Service Enagagement Chose IBM Cloud Foundry I have use EC2 and Microsoft's Azure. To me, both Azure and Bluemix were fantastic, but they each had some pros and cons. Azure had more services to offer, but their biggest flaw was in their inability to integrate and work with external platforms, APIs, Programs, etc.. Like … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Brower Senior Web Developer Chose IBM Cloud Foundry While IBM works well is when being used by large organizations, these other vendors work well with smaller organizations. We ended up being willing to pay more for Heroku, as they have such an easy-to-use service, and our deployments worked as expected every time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Foundry Used AWS and Azure. AWS has more features and a far superior interface responsivesness. It's actually usable! That being said default configurations and menus in AWS are more cryptic then necessary. Azure seems to be the gold standard for pre-configuration and ease of use. … Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Catanzariti Founder Chose IBM Cloud Foundry Bluemix had a much easier route to get into the artificial intelligence side of things with Watson skills. It also seemed a lot more straightforward to use things like the Weather Channel data, sentiment analysis... etc., than the others. I'd also had a bad experience with AWS … Incentivized Helpful? Terry Higbee Senior Integration Analyst Chose IBM Cloud Foundry Not even close--as noted in previous answers, we will likely use the competition before even considering IBM Bluemix. Incentivized Helpful? John Olsen Director Chose IBM Cloud Foundry We have used Red Hat which does not do business in Australia with people like us. They were a promising service (PaaS) while we were able to use the free version but as soon as we needed access to serious mobile-first services we had to pay and their policy meant we had to … Incentivized Helpful? Wojciech Kaminski CTO Chose IBM Cloud Foundry I like when the provider offers cloud deployment via standard orchestration mechanisms (like Docker, Kubernetes, DCOS) This is currently well covered by Azure. Amazon also has good flexibility (supports Kubernetes, DCOS). It's good that Bluemix added support for Docker and … Incentivized Helpful?	Superblocks Nima Gardideh CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose Superblocks Retool, Google Cloud Functions and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Incentivized Helpful?

Features

IBM Cloud Foundry

Superblocks

Platform-as-a-Service

Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Cloud Foundry 7.6 Ratings 5% below category average	Superblocks 8.6 Ratings 7% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces	7.00 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Scalability	8.50 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Platform management overhead	8.50 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Workflow engine capability	8.00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Platform access control	10.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration	7.50 Ratings	6.90 Ratings
Development environment creation	7.70 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Development environment replication	6.40 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification	4.70 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Issue recovery	7.50 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes	7.50 Ratings	9.80 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	IBM Cloud Foundry	Superblocks
Small Businesses	AWS Lambda Score 8.7 out of 10	AWS Lambda Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Foundry	Superblocks
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	9.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Cloud Foundry	Superblocks
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM Cloud Foundry is a solid service from the IBM Cloud platform. It is easy to learn, and does not usually require you to make drastic changes to your existing applications. It is especially good for new applications that are cloud native, or micro-services, that can be easily updated and deployed. With its blue/green deployment, you can achieve 0 downtime for your customers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	When you've connected your data sources, Superblocks make integrating data from several sources a breeze, which is the key to our development success. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Intuitive user interface makes it easy for anyone to use, regardless of their professional background. A lot of the services integrate well with external platforms, APIs, and programs, not just IBM services. A lot of the competitors in this space lack this ability. Maybe it is just our contract in particular, but support and help is always made available. Incentivized River Hain Solution Analyst — Machine Assisted Service Enagagement Read full review	Easy to use User Interface builder for building internal apps Scheduled Jobs and Workflow builder in multiple languages API builder for support your User Interface for your internal apps Nima Gardideh CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
Cons	Sometimes the API Connect GUIs don't cleanly disengage after attaching models or updating schema and it is hard to know what has been written successfully and which (if any) models or tables were missed. I shouldn't have to manually check through a list of 377 models to find the ones in and out of a list on either models, folder or database tables. Printing a summary even in logs which did a "diff" sort of thing between 'task-set' and 'task-completed' (referring to attaching models or updating schema as tasks here as 'tasks'). Provide access to Postgres Database in Sydney datacentre for Australia. Clearer documentation around setting up a secure (referring to SSL and certificate setup here) server on eg, chubby1.au-sydney.mybluemix.net. Allow a ramp in pricing onto the Blockchains. We will not be able to afford it until quite a few years into production, even if we launch successfully. Incentivized John Olsen Director Read full review	More flexibility on UI component designs Nima Gardideh CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
Alternatives Considered	IBM Cloud Foundry is our first choice industry-standard platform as a service (PaaS) which has always provided us with quicker, simpler, and more consistent ways for the deployment of the cloud-native applications which in result saved us lots of time and money. Incentivized Amir Yaqoob Software Quality Assurance Engineer Read full review	Nima Gardideh CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
Return on Investment	This was the founding solution used to allow us to move in to and test out a cloud pipeline. This is what paved the way for a full production cloud solution to be possible. Having Cloud Foundry at the base of our development and sandpit environment, segregated away from our standard on premise solution has moved away red tape and ensured an agile way forward. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We've saved thousands of developer hours that would have otherwise spent on maintaining infrastructure Nima Gardideh CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
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