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Broadcom Service Virtualization vs Orchestrated Service Virtualization comparison

 

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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
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
97
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Orchestrated Service Virtua...
Ranking in Service Virtualization
6th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Service Virtualization category, the mindshare of Broadcom Service Virtualization is 34.9%, up from 33.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Orchestrated Service Virtualization is 6.4%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

reviewer956754 - PeerSpot reviewer
Scalable with good recording and creating of virtual services, but it's not stable and there is no support for previous versions
The learning curve is an area that needs improvement, as well as stability and performance. Stability has to be improved. It is not a stable solution. Especially, when you create custom solutions there are issues with memory accumulation. I would prefer that they stop adding features, which is what they do. Instead, focus on stabilizing it and make it work. What's the point of adding new features? It just increases the cost. I'll give you an example; CA and I have continuous applications, and insight is one of the service activation components. It has never worked in any project, just for the namesake and for showing they have this one. Support needs improvement, they don't support the migration from an older version to the current version. The price can be reduced. This portal, after one week, if it is enterprise-assigned, will stop working. Now we have a policy that every week, we have a scheduled restart of everything, and maintain it. The stability is so poor that this is what is required. Broadcom acquired it recently, approximately a year ago. Broadcom was not involved with the software before. They were known for having a history with the hardware, physical devices, and appliances. Now, they are focusing on both. Much of their technical expertise, have gone. There is no expertise.
reviewer949782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Live connectivity benefits but is lacking customization options
Our primary use of the solution is for mocking of API codes One feature we like is the live connectivity of the product. In other words, you can push transactions through to live, and you can intercept some transactions and return them back with mocked data. We haven't used the product…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We are able to quickly scale our requests. We have tested across thousands of requests. We have had no problems so far."
"We have had developers produce code later than we wanted to, but we've had some other stuff that was dependent on that. So what we were able to do was virtualize these assets and then go forward with our developer and not have to wait for these additional services to be available."
"The innovation is amazing. CA has continued to add to services that it supports, the transports that it supports, and has built all of the enterprise capabilities into the product as well."
"You can create virtual services from a live recording or convert raw traffic into request/response pairs."
"You can have a lot of different people with different technologies use the tool, without any programming experience at all, all the way up to people who can program. And then, the more technical that you are, the more programming you have, the more you're able to customize the tool."
"It is definitely scalable."
"The most valuable features are the recording and creating of virtual services."
"We have been using it extensively for the shift left process and testing. It helps us to accelerate and virtualize services and assets that we don't have. It enables to test faster."
"You can push transactions through to live, and you can intercept some transactions and return them back with mocked data."
 

Cons

"I would like to have more flexibility towards the mainframe virtualization and also in JDBC virtualization."
"I would rate the tech support a nine out of ten. They need more knowledge about the connectivity to DevOps orchestration."
"UI should be more user friendly: better usability, more testing oriented."
"More examples of portal-based virtualization."
"They can always work on usability and making simple things simple to do. This is true of every product that deals with complexity."
"​From a reporting perspective I think we would like to have a more user-friendly approach."
"I'd like to see more of the newer technologies included in there, looking mainly from a mobile perspective, possibly, so you can virtualize some of the aspects that we're going to be doing for mobile testing."
"We had to implement an external service catalog. We put it in ServiceNow. I would like to see an integrated service catalog."
"The initial setup was complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a yearly licensing cost, and I would give it a four out of five."
"There are additional fees for advanced-level technical support."
"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."
"I think the pricing is quite fair because this solution provides a lot of functionalities, and is quite stable."
"The pricing of the solution comes as part of our Tosca bundle."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
41%
Computer Software Company
15%
Retailer
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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ITKO LISA, CA LISA, CA Service Virtualization
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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, 
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Allianz, Siemens, Bosch, Commerz Real, Toyota
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