IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Reviews & Insights

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.

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.

In the event of an opportunity for submitting an international application, IBM stands out not only by offering a robust and comprehensive infrastructure but also by bringing to the table the necessary expertise. This combination ensures that applicants have access to a wide array of resources and specialized knowledge, which can significantly enhance the quality and impact of their submissions.

Based on observed trends and user feedback, IBM Cloud Pak for Applications excels in enterprise environments requiring secure, scalable multi-cloud application development, especially for businesses leveraging AI and data analytics. It's ideal for industries like finance and healthcare, where integration with legacy systems is crucial. However, it's less suitable for small startups or projects with limited budgets due to its complexity and the significant investment in infrastructure and expertise required.

IBM Cloud Pak for Applications is clearly suitable for modernizing the WebSphere runtime from the heavy, complex and expensive WAS-ND, and to a lesser extent WAS-base, to the super simple, fast and lightweight WebSphere Liberty runtime. I guarantee, once you start using Liberty you'll never look back. Enough cannot be said about how awesome Transformation Advisor is. The output analysis it produces, along with the migration plan and associated artifacts, considerably simplifies both the decision-making process surrounding modernization and subsequent implementation. Without TA we would've made bad decisions by blindly picking unsuitable apps for moving from WAS to Liberty. Using the results from TA we've excluded multiple WAS apps from our immediate plans to migrate to Liberty, saving time and effort that probably would have resulted in a failed migration. We recently used Transformation Advisor to help us successfully migrate an app from Tomcat to WebSphere Liberty. We needed to make some changes to the Tomcat app, but TA helped highlight these required changes. Without TA I'm not sure we would have succeeded.