IBM Cloud Internet Services vs. LightEdge

In terms of business challenges, it simplifies the job of my engineers and significantly increases the productivity of my teams when they collaborate with IBM teams all over the world. Now that we have completed a proof-of-concept using the services supplied by IBM, we expect it to assist us in managing them more efficiently; thus far, management has been straightforward.

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OnRamp is great for medium or large size companies that need to organize information in a way that is easily accessible. It is not great for small companies who don't have a lot of customers.

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• build servers in Power PC architecture (ppc)
• take advantage of IBM datacenters infrastructure around the world
• continue to use your apps running on AIX

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• OnRamp does a great job at pulling up specific contact information about our donors
• OnRamp allows for us to find detailed payment information regarding postings to our general ledger
• It is very easy to run various reports with OnRamp

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• Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible.
• Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries.

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• I hear complaints from our donations department on how extractions can be difficult at times when pulling multiple years information
• OnRamp can make room for improvement by allowing us to make changes from an admin standpoint on how we pull up certain reports

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I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure

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I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my observation.

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OnRamp is much easier to use then Financial Edge with its user-friendly interface. Financial Edge seems dated and is much more complicated when running reports.

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• Reduced security configuration time for Internet of Things applications by more than 50%
• Provided better security incident SLA for CouchDB databases via IBM Cloudant
• Reduced security verification time for CloudFoundry applications by ~15%

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• OnRamp saves us time on retrieving data
• OnRamp helps us organize payment information and makes it easily accessible for users
• The security of using OnRamp is the best investment a company can make.

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