I don't have the exact dollar amount, but we have spent close to $1,000,000 for a three-year agreement, for an enterprise level. 

Any number of people can use it, and it has three performance inputs and any number of functional servers.

There is a yearly licensing cost, and I would give it a four out of five.

I think there's some things about the licensing and for putting it onto every sever, that's one of the things that will definitely be an evaluation point as well as we look at solutions and how we might do things. If we have to have one of those, if we end up putting it onto every server, pricing will be a bit of a question.

This varies greatly across several clients. CA will offer a fairly good discount because they are motivated to sell right now. The consulting rates can be high, because the population of skilled, available CA Service Virtualization engineers is very small.

My personal feeling is that the licensing cost keeps smaller organisations away due to affordability, but bigger organisations can afford it easily. However, an important point is that over time, there is a good ROI, given that tool is integrated well for virtualization of provider systems.

There are additional fees for advanced-level technical support.

Pricing/licenses are very expensive, especially performance VSE, which is kind of foolish, especially if you use DevTest as a test driver too. You’ll pay for the vuser bundle and for the VSE.

When you look at pricing, it is important to understand what you specifically need. The CA LISA/Virtualization product has various types of licenses. If you go with the super user license, you get all of the access, but you have to ask yourself if you really need all of the capabilities. And even if you do, you likely only need one or two licenses. The rest can have the standard user license.

It’s very expensive and to really come out with an ROI, it takes years.

Before buying the license, make sure that you try the product and are happy that it can provide the service testing capabilities that you require. Have people in your team who can invest the time to gain skills in CA Service Virtualization.

It is pretty expensive. On the licensing part, we don’t have much insight because the customer was handling this part.

Pricing is a bit on the higher side. Owing to its high cost, proper business justification needs to be provided to the client, if this tool is to be proposed.

Compared to the initial license cost of the product, the cost has been reduced a lot and it is competitive. Of course, iPhone does not match Nokia on price, as the price reflects the quality. Nonetheless, the price for this product is very competitive.

Pricing and Licensing is expensive.

I think the pricing is quite fair because this solution provides a lot of functionalities, and is quite stable.

Because my enterprise team took care of all this, I cannot write much on this.

Initial setup was done by the parent company and we are just using licenses and servers provided by the parent company.

Licensing definitely needs more flexible models. Too many complicated parameters also makes it difficult for us to explain them to our customers. Pricing definitely is too high. Not sure if CA is aware of SOAPUI Mock Services – a free alternative. And, for Pro, it is only $120 per year. If a customer has only a Web Services context, CA should explain how to bring up that story.

I have not edited the offer made to our customer. Being a major customer, I know that CA has created a type of license tailored to their business.

I don’t deal with pricing so I can’t help.

Its price is a little high when compared to similar tools.

It took us 14 man days to set up.