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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 cuts down dependency across dev as well as any third party components."
"This product has provided us the capability to virtualize dependent systems, which has resulted in the following improvements to our organization: More productivity No dependency on third-party systems Faster test execution cycles."
"We used technical support once in a while. The support is fantastic."
"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."
"The feature which is most valuable in this solution is the ease of use; the product is very easy to use and implement, and we can adjust the performance level to simulate the best service, normal services, or bad situations in many possible ways."
"With this solution, you don't have to use your production services for implementing other software uses."
"With Service Virtualization, it's much less expensive and we can turn them off and on when we need to."
"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."
"Service Virtualization has provided a way to move forward where we do not find any way to go."
"Parasoft Virtualization allowed us to create a simulated environment and test the code before entering the testing cycle."
"Parasoft Virtualize helped us in accelerating application delivery by allowing us to test early."
"The initial setup is quite easy to manage."
"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."
"Parasoft's product is easier to operate, and drives the user to make the right decisions and complete the work efficiently."
"The solution is easy to set up and a good tool for the service virtualization so far."
 

Cons

"I would like them to reduce the cost of the licenses."
"Pricing is always a concern for our clients, so my guess is if anything can be beat it's price."
"The data-driven model is painful at best."
"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."
"HP should work on providing better scripting support and include more communication and transport protocols."
"More support for different protocols. I would love to see more wizards rather than relying on some custom coding, which you can use C# as well as Visual Basic scripting. In the service virtualization platform, I would love to see more wizard features as well as the ability to connect to an external database, which by the way, we have put an enhancement request in for. I'd love to see that in the service virtualization platform."
"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."
"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."
"JMS Queue Monitoring: When deploying the TIBCO JMS monitor, we saw an approximately 50% failure rate in detecting the desired event."
"When Virtualize is running on a (virtual) machine with limited memory, over time it might consume more and more memory and (worst case) stall."
"Only about the memory, if you don't meet the minimum RAM required, performance is not stable."
"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."
"This product is too expensive when scaling."
"Performance enhancement for large payloads."
"It is somewhat complex regarding its configuration setup with different technologies."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Micro Service Virtualization is very expensive. The pricing of this product is in line with all of the other big name-brand products."
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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.