Cloud Pak for Applications
Accelerate cloud-native deployment with built-in tools and support for microservices and serverless.
What can WebSphere do for your business?
Learn how to determine the best hybrid cloud approach, across the WebSphere Application Server family. Hybrid cloud computing, modernizing existing apps in a microservice architecture and API lifecycle management. Don’t know what any of that means? It’s easy — start here.
Modernize your legacy WebSphere applications with containers and microservices
Application modernization is one of the most critical initiatives you will face in business today. Traditional applications can be modernized by moving them to the cloud to speed in-market delivery and improve developer productivity. By modernizing your existing WebSphere Application Server applications and creating a microservice framework, you can leverage your current investments to deliver new capabilities at your own pace — while reducing complexity and costs.
Benefits
Support for multi-cloud environments
Choose from native, virtual machine and application container deployment methods.
Flexible licensing models
Determine the best fit for your business needs now and in the future
Intelligent management features
Improve operational reliability, scalability, availability and manageability
Enhanced security and control
Take advantage of broad support for security standards and integrated management and administrative tooling
Increased developer productivity
Benefit from easy installation, fast startup and the ability to dynamically respond to application or configuration changes without the need for future runtime migration.
Featured offerings
WebSphere Application Server
Use flexible runtime environments to create and connect applications, and optimize your entire environment whether on premises or across public, private or hybrid cloud.
WebSphere on Cloud
Experience WebSphere Application Server on IBM Cloud by choosing a traditional or Liberty installation of WebSphere Application Server.
WebSphere Application Server for IBM Cloud Private VM Quickstarter
Modernize your traditional WebSphere applications and create cloud-native workloads on WebSphere Application Server for IBM Cloud Private VM Quickstarter.
WebSphere for z/OS
Incorporate your enterprise Java applications into the highly scalable and secure environment provided by IBM Z® and IBM z/OS® for trusted, real-time response to business opportunities.
Open Liberty
Use this lightweight open source application server, which is the foundation of the WebSphere Liberty family, to build Java microservices and cloud-native apps.
IBM Voice Agent with Watson
Enhance call center operations by connecting to IBM Watson® services, such as Watson Speech to Text, Conversation and Text to Speech services.
WebSphere Remote Server
Deliver reliable, security-rich operations and centralized management of technologies across networks with several to thousands of remote locations and devices.
Reactive Platform
Revitalize existing applications and build new applications that take advantage of advances in distributed architecture and cloud computing.
Microclimate
Learn how Microclimate can help you simplify and speed application creation and modernization in the cloud.
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IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Base
Deliver requirements management, quality management, change and configuration management and project planning and tracking
Resources
Learn how you can achieve business value by moving from on-premises to cloud-based application development solutions.
Take this three-minute assessment to see how cloud and hybrid capabilities can unlock value and transform your business.
Find out how much you could save by moving your applications to the cloud.
Read this blog to see how WebSphere has evolved over the past 20 years and continues to provide an ideal environment to develop, run and scale applications.
Learn how Verizon used a Reactive architecture to transform its commerce platform leading them to double their business and performance results during a massive product launch.
Watch this webcast to learn about the services and tools Microclimate offers to modernize applications in one seamless experience.
Read this analyst report to explore the business advantages of using IBM Voice Gateway to modernize your call centers.
Estimate the overall effort for migration with the WebSphere Application Server Migration Discovery Tool.
Learn how you can successfully plan and complete a migration to a newer version of WebSphere Application Server.
Get started
Test drive IBM WebSphere Application Server on IBM Cloud to see how easy it is to move your applications to the cloud and reduce costs.