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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 November 2026, in the Service Virtualization category, the mindshare of OpenText Service Virtualization is 17.2%, up from 12.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Parasoft Virtualize is 22.8%, up from 19.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Service Virtualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Parasoft Virtualize22.8%
OpenText Service Virtualization17.2%
Other60.0%
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

"Service Virtualization is key."
"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."
"Service Virtualization plays a major role in transforming your development, testing, and operating engineer into a business engineer."
"Performance testing and infrastructure costs were reduced because of virtual services."
"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 choose HPE servers because they're rock solid."
"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."
"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."
"Parasoft Virtualization allowed us to create a simulated environment and test the code before entering the testing cycle."
"Easy testing environment creation. No need to have deep development/infrastructure knowledge."
"We decided to use the Parasoft solution because it's more powerful and very easy to use."
"We now have the ability to test our complex applications completely detached from integration middleware, which improves the reliability, speed, cost, and simplicity of testing."
"The initial setup is quite easy to manage."
"Parasoft Virtualize helped us in accelerating application delivery by allowing us to test early."
"Service Virtualization has provided a way to move forward where we do not find any way to go."
"The solution is easy to set up and a good tool for the service virtualization so far."
 

Cons

"The stability of the product, it’s still a work in progress."
"I would like them to reduce the cost of the licenses."
"The monitoring feature is not impressive because they use Windows for so much monitoring."
"I’m rating it a 7 because it is not a fully evolved virtualization tool compared to other tools offering the same service."
"HPE products are good, but they never make a product for a specific use. They make a product for the enterprise because that is their vision. They like multi-generational business plans. That means that they don't deliver small bits and pieces, but rather, they deliver to the enterprise."
"It could needs to be a lot more scalable."
"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."
"HPE products are good, but they never make a product for a specific use."
"Performance enhancement for large payloads."
"It should have more fine-grained authorization."
"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."
"An area of improvements would be Data Repository, as in current stage it is difficult to manage data from this aspect."
"JMS Queue Monitoring: When deploying the TIBCO JMS monitor, we saw an approximately 50% failure rate in detecting the desired event."
"Only about the memory, if you don't meet the minimum RAM required, performance is not stable."
"This product is too expensive when scaling."
 

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
20%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Transportation Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Construction Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
11%
 

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
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenText Service Virtualization vs. Parasoft Virtualize and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
920,769 professionals have used our research since 2012.