# Rocket Enterprise Server Reviews **Vendor:** Rocket Software **Category:** [Other Continuous Delivery Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-continuous-delivery) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 5 ## About Rocket Enterprise Server Micro Focus Enterprise Server provides an application deployment environment for rehosting IBM mainframe applications that have traditionally run on IBM z/OS environments. ## Rocket Enterprise Server Reviews ### 1. Micro Focus Enterprise Server Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikas K. | Sr. Solution Architect for legacy modernization, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Rocket Enterprise Server?** Micro Focus Enterprise Server is one of the best tools that has come in the market which brings a revolution in the way people look at the legacy application. We have witnessed cost savings of up to 60% by moving the application from the legacy mainframe. This brings most of the legacy applications to fit in without even giving a feel of the interface. It has a good capability of integration with legacy sub-systems and newer platform which brings added features at no cost. **What do you dislike about Rocket Enterprise Server?** The Micro Focus Enterprise Server is good in most aspects evolving every year we have been working for years but a few things that can bring more value when compared to the mainframe legacy are security, heaviness of the application, and stability with higher loads. We have always been able to trade-off on these aspects considering cost and MF is evolving well on these aspects over years. **What problems is Rocket Enterprise Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is key for day-to-day business operations, development, and UAT testing, and one of the tools which are really live and tested hard for any organization's implementation to be called a success. We have seen a major cut in cost 100% from development and UAT environment where multiple users can work parallelly on multiple regions/users with core licenses. The production environment has been pretty stable helping with cost-effectiveness by ~ 60%. We have used the system in banking, insurance, and many key domains and it has outperformed well. ### 2. Quickest way to migrate COBOL applications out of mainframe **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh P. | Mainframe Modernization Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Rocket Enterprise Server?** 1 - The best thing about Micro Focus Enterprise Server (MFES) is that it does what it claims. 2 - It is a significantly matured product, unlike many other mainframe emulation software in the market. 3 - It is a feature-rich product and provides good documentation about how to use it. 4 - The technical support team, or the professional services team, is very knowledgeable. **What do you dislike about Rocket Enterprise Server?** 1 - It doesn't support a variety of languages, which makes the re-platforming projects hard, as the other languages have to re-written in COBOL or PL/I. 2 - The rrror messages are misleading in most cases. The diagnostics and troubleshooting are difficult. 3 - The performance of a re-platformed application is usually poor in the beginning, and lot of effort goes into fixing it. 4 - It is most expensive compared to all other competitive products. **What problems is Rocket Enterprise Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1 - This helps to get the COBOL or PL/I applications off mainframe, and run in distributed hardwared. Thereby saving the high running cost on mainframe. The saved money can then be utilized for more innovation. 2 - The migration is quicker, as compared to some of the options like rewriting the application in a totally new technology from scratch, or even using code converter to rewrite it. 3 - By moving to cloud, it also solves the scalability, resiliency, and availability requirements easily. ### 3. How MFES changed my career path and gave me diverse opportunities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal K. | MFA specialist , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Rocket Enterprise Server?** ES has the best GUI to manage legacy applications using a distributed architecture. Every version and patch update comes with a new feature and gives users new options to explore all possibilities. **What do you dislike about Rocket Enterprise Server?** I have seen less documentation and training videos in containerization and load balancing. I am also unaware if we can use tools like Jenkins to automate the CI/CD pipeline. **What problems is Rocket Enterprise Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Replaced legacy databases (db2 and ims) Changed from EBCDIC to ASCII collating sequence Fully implemented test suite Open system operation environment (IDE Java ready, Monitoring) Removed the dependency of a single vendor In-depth analysis of all elements of your code and data ### 4. Complete application for mainframe modernization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bala Subrahmanyam K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Rocket Enterprise Server?** Micro Focus Enterprise server is a single platform that is very useful for mainframe modernization/Migration to cloud servers. **What do you dislike about Rocket Enterprise Server?** Nothing much. As of now i didn't feel any difficulty using Micro focus enterprise server. **What problems is Rocket Enterprise Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modernization of legacy applications which helps us in cost cutting for servers maintainance and e.t.c. ### 5. Very Compatible and manageable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Rocket Enterprise Server?** We have dployed this Enterprise server for a customized application workloads but the seamless computing helped us to get it easily **What do you dislike about Rocket Enterprise Server?** Since its different from the infrastrucutre, it should be take some extra care of management **What problems is Rocket Enterprise Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to deploy custom built workloads on these servers - [View Rocket Enterprise Server pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/rocket-enterprise-server/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-19+08%3A05%3A02+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d1fb3ffb-aa99-4a1a-970c-eed06a10b4cc&secure%5Btoken%5D=951e60c3870c04b2cdc060f95d4e72411907870579ebe99f62d99d4b7becb34e&format=llm_user) ## Top Rocket Enterprise Server Alternatives - [GNU Make](https://www.g2.com/products/gnu-make/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (18 reviews) - [CMake](https://www.g2.com/products/cmake/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (17 reviews) - [SCons](https://www.g2.com/products/scons/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (17 reviews)