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Broadcom Service Virtualization vs OpenText Service Virtualization comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Service Virtualiza...
Ranking in Service Virtualization
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
97
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OpenText Service Virtualiza...
Ranking in Service Virtualization
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Service Virtualization category, the mindshare of Broadcom Service Virtualization is 27.1%, down from 31.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Service Virtualization is 16.5%, up from 14.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Service Virtualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Broadcom Service Virtualization27.1%
OpenText Service Virtualization16.5%
Other56.4%
Service Virtualization
 

Q&A Highlights

it_user142806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation QA Specialist at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 06, 2014
 

Featured Reviews

DM
Senior Project Manager at Infosys
Can be used for the virtualization of TCP/IP protocols for third-party terminal insurance
We use it for the virtualization of third-party APIs for performance testing. Our second use case is related to the virtualization of TCP/IP protocols for third-party terminal insurance, which is used for insurance clients In the case of the virtualization of TCP/IP protocols for third-party…
Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Marco Technology
Is scalable and easy to use, but the monitoring feature needs improvement
The support for Micro Focus Service Virtualization is better than that for other products. The technical support staff are highly skilled. Sometimes, we don't have to open a ticket. We can just go into the community and then talk to them directly. I would rate technical support at seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature is that it supports so many protocols. We, being a large bank, have almost all the protocols, and it supports all of them, so that's one good thing."
"This product helps some of our customers achieve agility and delivery effectiveness."
"CA Service Virtualization is an amazing solution, very easy to use, easy to train others on how to take advantage of it."
"Clients were able to save $700k and three million GBP in the first year of using the solution."
"There is a range of different kinds of simulations that we can create – capture/replay up to creation of real, elaborate simulations of the back end."
"Helps us to remove barriers that we have with dependencies on services that we don't own, or services that don't even exist yet."
"The most valuable features are the recording and creating of virtual services, especially in creating IBM MQ virtual services through recording."
"Using the power of CA Service Virtualization, it is now possible to perform integration testing on every application build."
"We choose HPE servers because they're rock solid."
"With Service Virtualization, it's much less expensive and we can turn them off and on when we need to."
"Teams have reduced the amount of delayed development effort it takes to roll out a new product by leveraging a virtual service for development and then meeting up for a final integration test when it is complete."
"This product has provided us the capability to virtualize dependent systems, which has resulted in the following improvements to our organization: More productivity No dependency on third-party systems Faster test execution cycles."
"We have a number of end points in the environment that are not terribly reliable, and with Service Virtualization we can replace them with something that is much more stable while gaining commonality, a high level of compliance, and reducing the likelihood of different problems being caused by different issues in multiple test environments."
"Some of the key differentiators of this tool – Easy to use, built-in integration with HP tools like LoadRunner, ALM and UFT, built-in integration with revision control software, support for multiple technologies including SAP, support for network virtualization, and the ability to control virtual services from ALM, HP ServiceTest, LoadRunner, and UFT."
"With this solution, you don't have to use your production services for implementing other software uses."
"I was blown away with how fast the implementation was."
 

Cons

"There is need to improve the DevTest Workstation with UI-based testing features."
"They can always work on usability and making simple things simple to do. This is true of every product that deals with complexity."
"The solution required a lot of CPU memory, but using enough PC OZU fixed the problems."
"Pricing/licenses are very expensive, especially performance VSE, which is kind of foolish, especially if you use DevTest as a test driver too."
"The biggest area of improvement is in the licensing. The licensing costs are very high."
"Parsers, look and feel need improvement."
"ROI is NOT that great since the product license is expensive."
"Stability’s one area that needs work; it's good, but the challenge is that scaling at a very high level is slightly problematic at this point in time."
"The data-driven model is painful at best."
"As it stands now, the debugging capacity within the tool is fairly limited."
"Sometimes it stops working after switching remote and local servers."
"The monitoring feature is not impressive because they use Windows for so much monitoring. They set a lock on the window, and then we have to gather the information from the main monitoring feature in the Windows server. There is not enough capacity for problem solving performance issues."
"I would like them to reduce the cost of the licenses."
"HPE products are good, but they never make a product for a specific use."
"It could needs to be a lot more scalable."
"The developers area Performance testers"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a yearly licensing cost, and I would give it a four out of five."
"I don't have the exact dollar amount, but we have spent close to $1,000,000 for a three-year agreement, for an enterprise level."
"There are additional fees for advanced-level technical support."
"I think the pricing is quite fair because this solution provides a lot of functionalities, and is quite stable."
"Micro Service Virtualization is very expensive. The pricing of this product is in line with all of the other big name-brand products."
"It's an expensive solution, but you can get discounts. You have to buy one server and one designer together, for example, and it may cost 15 million Thai Baht."
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Answers from the Community

it_user142806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation QA Specialist at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014
Check out the comparison of CA Lisa and HP Service Virtualization at http://www.itcentralstation.com/products/comparisons/hp-service-virtualization_vs_ca-lisa
2 out of 6 answers
it_user137409 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 10,001+ employees
Jul 30, 2014
Hello, Unfortunately, I don’t have experience in CA Lisa SV. However, I have evaluated HP SV and have an opinion about it – I can share my thoughts if you need, but I don’t think that it will help you to answer the question. “What needs to be considered when comparing them?” Of course a lot is depends on your necessities, but for the most of cases it doesn’t matter what tools you are going to compare – I believe that all the needs are the same because of the domain area (SV in this case). - Number of Protocols supported - Record and Reproduce possibility - Create virtual services from scratch - Easiness of installing, configuring and using - Extended possibilities for creation more complex virtual endpoints (db support, data stores, team using, etc.) - Other deeper criteria Thank you. Best Regards, Dzianis Sushko EPAM Integration Competency Center
it_user105102 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 30, 2014
HP Service Test and CA Lisa are not comparable products. HP Service Test is comparable to Soap UI- create scripts/tests that drive data to a web service. HP Service Test is one of three products in the HP Unified Functional Testing Suite: what used to be Quick Test Professional, Service Test and Service Test Manager.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
18%
Construction Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Marketing Services Firm
6%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Outsourcing Company
18%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise98
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise14
 

Also Known As

ITKO LISA, CA LISA, CA Service Virtualization
Micro Focus Service Virtualization, HPE Service Virtualization
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Union Bank, Swisscom, Autotrader, KPN, ING Bank, Best Buy, American Family Insurance, TESCO, Telefonica, Molina Healthcare, California DMV, Aktia, City Index, Con-way, DirecTV, GRU Airport, Liquidnet, NAB, Nordstrom, T-Mobile, TIM Brasil, 
Virgin Media, TTNet
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