What are our data sources?
We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in application servers category. Our data sources in application servers category include;
Application server software are frameworks that enable developers to build servers which host applications. Application server software also provides features to enhance the performance of the running apps on the servers, including:
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We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in application servers category. Our data sources in application servers category include;
review websites
social media websites
search engine data for branded queries
According to the weighted combination of 7 data sources
vCenter Server
IBM WebSphere Application Server
Apache Tomcat
Infor OS
Nginx
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current application servers market leaders. Market leaders are not the overall leaders since market leadership doesn’t take into account growth rate.
vCenter Server
Apache Tomcat
IBM WebSphere Application Server
Nginx
Apache Server
These are the number of queries on search engines which include the brand name of the solution. Compared to other IT / Tech categories, Application Servers is more concentrated in terms of top 3 companies’ share of search queries. Top 3 companies receive 89%, 8% more than the average of search queries in this area.
28 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 7 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 21 companies with >10 employees are offering application servers. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 300k employees. The largest company building application servers is IBM with more than 300,000 employees.
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the fastest growing solutions:
Infor OS
Univention Corporate Server
Altova MapForce
vCenter Server
Magic xpa Application Platform
We have analyzed reviews published in the last months. These were published in 4 review platforms as well as vendor websites where the vendor had provided a testimonial from a client whom we could connect to a real person.
These solutions have the best combination of high ratings from reviews and number of reviews when we take into account all their recent reviews.
This data is collected from customer reviews for all Application Servers companies. The most positive word describing Application Servers is “Easy to use” that is used in 8% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 5.00% of all the Application Servers reviews.
According to customer reviews, most common company size for application servers customers is 51-1,000 employees. Customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 32% of application servers customers. For an average IT / Tech solution, customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 26% of total customers.
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all Application Servers. Application Servers is most positively evaluated in terms of "Overall" but falls behind in "Customer Service".
This category was searched on average for 242 times per month on search engines in 2022. This number has increased to 320 in 2023. If we compare with other it / tech solutions, a typical solution was searched 710 times in 2022 and this decreased to 480 in 2023.