Total Economic Impact™ study
Learn how WebSphere Liberty customers saw 195% ROI, 50% developer and 40% IT admin productivity improvement.
Overview
What is IBM WebSphere Liberty?
IBM® WebSphere® Liberty, available as part of IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition, is a modern Java EE, Jakarta EE, MicroProfile runtime, ideal for building new cloud-native applications and modernizing existing applications. Liberty is highly efficient and optimized for modern cloud technologies and practices, making it an ideal choice for container and Kubernetes-based deployments.
WebSphere Liberty is built on Open Liberty. The combination of Open Liberty with traditional WebSphere compatibility features makes WebSphere Liberty an ideal target for modernizing existing applications.
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Use cases
Modernize and simplify
Modernize and simplify
Reduce capital and operational costs and simplify management. Modernize to Liberty, Microservices, Containers and Cloud with the no-cost Transformation Advisor and Mono2Micro tools available with IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition.
Build new cloud-native apps
Build new cloud-native apps
Use the latest Java EE, Jakarta EE, and MicroProfile APIs to build cloud-native apps on premises or in the cloud. Adopt open source Open Liberty, supported by IBM with your WebSphere Liberty license.
Create a multicloud environment
Create a multicloud environment
Your WebSphere Liberty license is portable between cloud service providers. Deploy wherever your business dictates, easily move apps across cloud services, regardless of IT architectural environment.
Benefits
Simplify administration
First-class source-to-image, Kubernetes Operator, and Buildpack support help simplify Kubernetes deployments and day-2 operations. Add IBM WebSphere Automation for AI-automated management of your security posture.
Increase developer productivity
Integration with popular IDEs and a rapid inner-loop code, compile, test cycle, including in containers, increase developer productivity and production quality.
Improve infrastructure use
Liberty’s high throughput, self-tuning, and smaller footprint help reduce infrastructure costs by improving server density.
Customer success stories
FlowFactor
FlowFactor helped a transport provider modernize apps and cut deployment times > 99% with WebSphere Liberty.
Hera
WebSphere Liberty helped Hera convert a monolithic application to a flexible microservice architecture.
GBM
WebSphere Liberty helped GBM provide an environment for customers to modernize their applications to flexible microservice architectures.
Testimonials
IBM WebSphere Liberty is dynamic, lightweight, platform-agnostic, and container-ready. It checks all of the modernization journey boxes. It boasts the backbone/foundation of tWAS to instill confidence and stability in the technicians supporting it and the customers consuming it.
Technology Owner
US Enterprise >1000 employees
G2 review
Performance overall is much better. For one application, start-up time was around 10 minutes on traditional WebSphere and takes around 90 seconds on Liberty.
NPS review
Large bank in Germany
With WebSphere Liberty, it gives us the ability the refine some of our current footprint and enable to save money on licensing. We are working on migrating our traditional env to a liberty env.
Administrator in Government Administration
Enterprise > 1000 employees