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IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server [EOL] 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

IBM Rational Test Virtualiz...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OpenText Service Virtualiza...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Service Virtualization (4th)
 

Featured Reviews

RC
IT Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services
Using service virtualization, we are able to accelerate the testing and development activity
As per my working experience over the last three and half years with RIT/RTVS, I would consider the two following areas of improvement: * Reporting: In the recent release of RCPT, the "Usage graph" feature is included, but that still needs improvements in terms of UI and timeline filtering criteria. * Implementing custom functions is a bit of a tedious job, as ECMAscript does not support some of the standard JavaScript functions. Also, the Script editor window is not user-friendly .
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

"It has very easy and good validation techniques used for SWIFT, XSD, and WSDL validations."
"It is very stable, rock-solid, and there is a possibility of about 20-32% cost savings."
"IBM RTVS has many useful features, but support for IBM MQ over this tool is unbeatable."
"We have improved productivity about 90%."
"As we have used most of the MQ stub, "MQ recording" is the most useful feature."
"Indeed, I would recommend it; one major reason being that this product not only has a robust infrastructure implementation, it also has good technical support supporting standards from IBM."
"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 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."
"It is easy to use. This is what I tell my customers. The coding is easier to develop as well."
"Service virtualization enables our teams to create, develop, and test software against virtual services that simulate real service behavior with no constraints, available anytime."
"Performance testing and infrastructure costs were reduced because of virtual services."
"Service Virtualization cuts down dependency across dev as well as any third party components."
"We choose HPE servers because they're rock solid."
"Don't give up. It may sound very expensive at the beginning, but we have realized more than $15 million in savings at one of our major healthcare clients."
 

Cons

"They need to move it to the cloud."
"Reporting: In the recent release of RCPT, the "Usage graph" feature is included, but that still needs improvements in terms of UI and timeline filtering criteria."
"User friendliness: I would rate it somewhere around 5/10 in terms of user-friendliness. It can be simpler to build stubs and middle-ware based test cases compared to the solution given by RTVS."
"Reporting: In the recent release of RCPT, the "Usage graph" feature is included, but that still needs improvements in terms of UI and timeline filtering criteria."
"One of the biggest disappointments for me and my team was dependency on various patches, or so call clients for every single technology."
"However, some peripheral features need vast improvement, namely the reporting and the dashboard areas."
"It could needs to be a lot more scalable."
"The data-driven model is painful at best."
"The stability of the product, it’s still a work in progress."
"I’m rating it a 7 because it is not a fully evolved virtualization tool compared to other tools offering the same service."
"Pricing is always a concern for our clients, so my guess is if anything can be beat it's price."
"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 integration with other solutions, such as ALM and Jira, should be improved."
"The current protocol needs to be updated to be much more flexible. The product needs more technical flexibility in implementation and customization."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product has a free trial available, which has saves on the initial investment costs."
"IBM RTVS is not that expensive compare to other giants, but it is still much ahead of some other tool having less features."
"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

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Financial Services Firm
25%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Transportation Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise14
 

Also Known As

Green Hat, IBM RTVS
Micro Focus Service Virtualization, HPE Service Virtualization
 

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Sample Customers

Sandhata Technologies Ltd., Qantas Airways 
Virgin Media, TTNet
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