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OpenText Service Virtualization vs Parasoft Virtualize 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

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
Parasoft Virtualize
Ranking in Service Virtualization
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Service Virtualization category, the mindshare of OpenText Service Virtualization is 14.8%, down from 16.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Parasoft Virtualize is 26.2%, up from 17.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Service Virtualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Parasoft Virtualize26.2%
OpenText Service Virtualization14.8%
Other59.0%
Service Virtualization
 

Featured Reviews

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.
SP
Solutions Architect at InfoStretch
Easy to set up and scale but needs more data virtualization capabilities
I'm working with a service organization and I'm working for a client and that client requires this solution. That's why we use it. Basically, we are just a customer and end-user. The solution is easy to set up and a good tool for the service virtualization so far. I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. If the product could do more things, I'd give it higher marks.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"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."
"The support for integration patterns and the ease of use to wizard-based utility is what I would consider the most important features for service virtualization platforms."
"I was blown away with how fast the implementation was."
"It is easy to use. This is what I tell my customers. The coding is easier to develop as well."
"With Service Virtualization, it's much less expensive and we can turn them off and on when we need to."
"The feature which is most valuable in this solution is the ease of use. The product is very easy to use and very easy to implement."
"The most valuable feature is that it reduces the dependency so that the down time of the environment is not a major cost. That cost can be used for something else like the cloud."
"Using Virtualize, this dependency has been removed completely, allowing the test team to provision many more orders in shorter time, enabling them to test much more, much faster."
"We decided to use the Parasoft solution because it's more powerful and very easy to use."
"The initial setup is quite easy to manage."
"Parasoft Virtualize helped us in accelerating application delivery by allowing us to test early."
"Parasoft Virtualization allowed us to create a simulated environment and test the code before entering the testing cycle."
"Parasoft's product is easier to operate, and drives the user to make the right decisions and complete the work efficiently."
"Easy testing environment creation. No need to have deep development/infrastructure knowledge."
 

Cons

"Sometimes it stops working after switching remote and local servers."
"I think the biggest issues that I've seen, and this is a personal view of mine, is that most of the HPE products have a common look and feel to them."
"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."
"Early on though, we saw some stability issues with the design that would occasionally crash."
"A lot of technology, a lot of Microsoft services, a lot of support to the functionality aspect of it - they need to mature a lot."
"I’m rating it a 7 because it is not a fully evolved virtualization tool compared to other tools offering the same service."
"The current protocol needs to be updated to be much more flexible. The product needs more technical flexibility in implementation and customization."
"HPE products are good, but they never make a product for a specific use."
"Only about the memory, if you don't meet the minimum RAM required, performance is not stable."
"An area of improvements would be Data Repository, as in current stage it is difficult to manage data from this aspect."
"This product is too expensive when scaling."
"When Virtualize is running on a (virtual) machine with limited memory, over time it might consume more and more memory and (worst case) stall."
"It would be ideal if the product offered more in terms of data virtualization or have a separate product that could be combined with this one that could offer a bit more in order to cover more of our requirements."
"Performance enhancement for large payloads."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Retailer
7%
Outsourcing Company
5%
Transportation Company
5%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Service Virtualization, HPE Service Virtualization
Parasoft Service Virtualization
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Virgin Media, TTNet
Alaska Airlines, Cox Automotive, Comcast, Lufthansa, Samsung, WoodmenLife, Caesars Entertainment, Capital One, REI
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