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OpenText Silk Central vs Panaya Test Dynamix comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
1.0
OpenText Silk Central enhances test management, project visibility, and collaboration, leading to reduced costs, faster delivery, and higher productivity.
Sentiment score
5.0
Panaya Test Dynamix improved test efficiency, reduced manual efforts, and provided measurable benefits in productivity, cost-effectiveness, and resource allocation.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.3
OpenText Silk Central is praised for its responsive, knowledgeable customer service, efficient technical support, and quick response times.
Sentiment score
5.7
Users praise Panaya Test Dynamix customer service for prompt, knowledgeable, and efficient support with effective communication and problem-solving skills.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
1.0
OpenText Silk Central is praised for scalability, flexibility, robust performance, supporting diverse projects, extensive collaboration, and seamless system integration.
Sentiment score
6.7
Panaya Test Dynamix is praised for scalability, efficient test case management, integration, reliability, and performance under large workloads.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
1.0
OpenText Silk Central is reliable, handles extensive workloads, scales with business growth, and provides stable performance with minimal downtime.
Sentiment score
7.8
Panaya Test Dynamix stands out for its stability, reliability, and efficient performance, excelling under heavy workflows and various conditions.
 

Room For Improvement

Users suggest improvements for OpenText Silk Central in reporting, integration, setup, test environment support, performance, and navigation.
Panaya Test Dynamix requires better customization, clearer error messages, improved performance, enhanced integration, easier navigation, and more comprehensive training resources.
It is designed more for Waterfall than Agile, so it is not as efficient as it could be.
 

Setup Cost

<p>OpenText Silk Central provides enterprise pricing options, balancing initial costs with comprehensive features, support, and significant return on investment.</p>
Panaya Test Dynamix offers competitive, scalable, and cost-effective pricing with customizable packages to meet diverse organizational testing needs.
 

Valuable Features

OpenText Silk Central excels in test management, tool integration, reporting, ease of use, customization, automation, and effective large-scale test case management.
Users praise Panaya Test Dynamix for its automation, detailed reporting, ease of use, seamless integration, and efficient defect management.
The reporting is probably the most valuable feature.
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Silk Central
Ranking in Test Management Tools
20th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
2.3
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Test Design Automation (5th)
Panaya Test Dynamix
Ranking in Test Management Tools
19th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Defect Tracking (8th), Functional Testing Tools (26th), Regression Testing Tools (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText Silk Central is 1.7%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Panaya Test Dynamix is 2.7%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Test Management Tools Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Panaya Test Dynamix2.7%
OpenText Silk Central1.7%
Other95.6%
Test Management Tools
 

Featured Reviews

ChrisWilliams1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Reporting efficacy and collaboration improve despite outdated features
I do this for my own benefit, and it has nothing to do with any company views. I work as a permanent employee for a government department. OpenText Silk Central is coming to the end of its support, so we will have to move to something else, but I do not know what the other solution will be. Automation is quite immature at our place. It has only really started, so there is no integration with OpenText Silk Central. I would give it a rating of 7 out of 10; it could be 7.5. It just lacks certain features that would make it a higher grade if it had more modern features.
Alain Vanhaeght - PeerSpot reviewer
More than reliable, with satisfied results for our needs, and excellent testing options
For the moment we are looking to automated testing, and there today apparently it is not working well with the application we want to test. So we are using an application on a terminal server and some quirks make it challenging to make automatic testing. It would be nice to be able to test offline. What I mean by that is today most of the time things are in the cloud, but sometimes when we are in factories we do not have network access and we should be able to download a test script into our PCs and do the test offline. Once that is complete we can re-upload it when we again have a network connection.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Manufacturing Company
21%
Computer Software Company
14%
Healthcare Company
9%
Retailer
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
No data available
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Silk Central, Borland Silk Central, Silk Central
No data available
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

AmBank Group, Krung Thai Computer Services, Deakin University
Over 3000 leading enterprises worldwide including SONY, NICE, NEC, Shiseido, DHL, ABB and Grupo Bimbo
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