OpenText ALM / Quality Center Pricing
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Manoj Ray
Quality Lead at Vodafone
Compared to the market, the price is high.
We just renewed our licenses, which took time to do. I think we have 30 concurrent licenses.
The world is changing to open source code and free applications. This may be an issue in the future.
View full review »The solution is priced high.
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Leon Van Niekerk
Head of Testing at Pick n Pay
From a pricing point of view, I believe it is an enterprise tool. If you are an enterprise organization and you're using SAP or Oracle for your ERP systems, for example, the cost around Quality Center is not that expensive. From a licensing and planning point of view, you should have a hybrid between licenses you own and depending on how busy you are at certain stages within projects, do additional rentals just for those periods if need be. That's what we do in our environment, we have a base of 15 licenses. If we have any major projects coming in where we know there are additional developers, we do a rental for licenses for the period of that project. We charge that project for the licenses for that rental.
We do have additional costs apart from standard licensing from our side. Pick n Pay outsources their hardware, so obviously we have costs for the hardware and backup for our hardware partners that do our hosting. We see this as a tier-one application in our environment. We have full disaster recovery capability. There some costs involved from that side.
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OpenText ALM / Quality Center
April 2024
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BRIANJOHNSON2
Program Test Manager at B and H Designs
Micro Focus ALM Quality Center is very expensive. The price is approximately £2,000 per person, they are too expensive to corner the market.
View full review »It was expensive for us. For the first two weeks, we had to employ people now and then as the system needed to be more accurate. It cost us a lot of money. I rate the solution's pricing as a seven or an eight out of ten.
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Lisa Gordon
IS Director, ERP PTP Solution Architecture at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Depending on the volume, the annual maintenance costs vary on a percentage but it's around $300 a year per license for maintenance. It's at 18% of the total cost of the license.
View full review »Sure, HP UFT is not free. But consider what you get for that cost: A stable product that is easy to use; the kitchen sink of technology stack support; decades of code (which in many cases actually is free); a version that is a stepping stone to an easier Selenium design; and a support base that is more that just the kindness of strangers.
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View full review »We have to pay an annual license fee for the product. The licensing fee is a little expensive. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten.
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Mohan Bondili
Global Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I can't comment much on pricing. The reason is, we get the pricing for Micro Focus through SAP as part of an enterprise contract. We don't actually get it from Microsoft Focus and due to the fact that there's a part of the SAP that's 15 years old, we have one of the cheapest licenses probably in the world. That's one of the reasons why it's hard for us to make a business case to move to any other product at the moment, as the licensing is quite cheap for us.
View full review »This is an expensive solution.
View full review »For licensing, find out the number of users who will be using it concurrently, and use that number as a starting point for the number of licenses to purchase. Quality Center is pricey, but cheaper is not always less expensive.
View full review »Before you start implementing, make a solid plan and try to figure out the challenges before hand.
View full review »HPE ALM has been sold to Micro-Focus. I am not sure if Micro-Focus will be flexible.
If no flexibility is provided, you can easily move out in weeks, if you have the right resources.
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ANGAD SHUKLA
Data Insights & Analytics Solution Architect at BT - British Telecom
The enterprise pricing and licensing are reasonable.
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Ashish Yelkar
Managing Partner at Verve Square Technologies
It all comes down to how many people are going to access the tool. When teams go above 20, I think ALM is a better tool to use from a collaboration and streamlining perspective.
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Ira Mayer
Senior SW Quality Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Pricing is managed by our headquarters. I am able to get from them for very cheap. The market price is horribly expensive.
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reviewer1119750
Test Manager at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
When you have to ramp up your licenses and you have to scale it up, it's quite a costly product. You have to keep an eye on how many people are using it. You can't just give access to users who are only there to take on excess work and who are not using it. It is not a very economical solution.
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Vishwa-Reddy
Team Lead at Accenture
The licensing determines the number of users we can enable in a particular project. There is a full license and a defect license. Full licenses are used by a few of the guys at our level. We'll give a defect license to the development team only, to access whatever defects there are, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly.
We did not buy our ALM licenses directly from Micro Focus. We bought them from SAP, which is another solution we are using. We depend on SAP when it comes to whatever challenges come up. The source for us is SAP.
We do have a pricing concern. If we go directly to Micro Focus, they'll sell it at a higher price. If we go to some other vendor, they sell it at a lower price. My manager then says, "Okay, it's the same tool. Why do we need to buy it directly? Whatever problems come up, we can resolve them at our end." Of course, we don't know if we'll have one or two problems or not, and that is the reason to go for the higher price. But they went with SAP to buy the license.
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Sanjeev Ranjan
Tools Architect at S2 Integrators
I don't handle any aspect of the pricing.
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reviewer1644000
Executive Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It's a perpetual license.
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Shinu Thulaseedharan
IT Quality and Architecture Senior Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The pricing has been the same for the past few years. It is reasonable. It is not very high. Of course, the cheaper the better, from our point of view. But the tool and its quality are amazing, really good. And including the support their team is giving us, I think the price is justified. It's a fair price.
View full review »Make sure you get the correct license for your needs. The full ALM license lets you use the requirements tab, along with test automation and the Performance Center. You can also just buy the Quality Center edition (Manual testing only), or the Performance Center version (Performance Testing only). I have no idea where they get their pricing numbers from, but they seem to always be negotiable.
View full review »I'd rate the pricing as 3/10 as it's very expensive.
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reviewer1949529
Head of Testing - Warehouse Solutions at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I cannot comment on licensing as another department handles it.
View full review »I'm not aware of the pricing or licensing cost for Micro Focus ALM Quality Center.
View full review »I think HPE tools are too expensive, but dumping them for shareware tools, like JIRA, Selenium, etc., is also very dangerous and is not a silver bullet.
View full review »Their licensing model is expensive. We could scale it up and use it everywhere, but then, you look at how much it would cost for the licenses and you really think, "Is it worth it?"
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David Gorecki
Senior Specialist - Quality Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The licensing model is an area that can be improved.
The cost of licensing depends on the number of VMs that you are running test cases on and it is not cheap. To the best of my recollection, it is several thousand dollars per license.
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reviewer1444647
Sr. Manager - SAP Authorization & Complaince at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very expensive as compared to other tools. We didn't get their premier version. It is a lesser version, and to upgrade, there will be an additional cost for us.
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reviewer960990
Tool Administrator at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
Micro Focus ALM Quality Center is very expensive. Personally, I think that it's too expensive, but I don't have another tool to compare it to.
View full review »It allows us to keep our costs low. I do not want to pay beyond a certain point for this solution.
View full review »I am not aware of the exact pricing of the solution. Many years ago, it was quite expensive, and my understanding is it is still not a low price. There are free tools on the market now as well, and therefore the price may be an issue.
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Caroline Gitonga
Presales Consultant at Oracle
Original cost was $158,000. Our day-to-day cost is difficult to compute, but it’s very low.
View full review »I understand that it’s still extremely expensive.
View full review »The main concern is that there is a significant dollar investment, so do good research to make sure the tool will meet your needs.
View full review »Review if the all-to-be licensed functionality is needed as certain modules are not used as they introduce needless complexity. You should aim for concurrent licensing if global us is needed as slack periods in one time-zone can be picked up by another.
View full review »Depends on how much you pay for this product and the size of the project. For a big project, it's a great tool that will help a lot.
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Avantika Dayama
Project Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I feel that the licenses are expensive.
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Varun Srinivasa Murthy
IT Solutions Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The price is a bit high.
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John ONeill
Principle consultant at Active Data Consulting Services Pty Ltd
We found the pricing to be very reasonable.
View full review »You need to negotiate with HP.
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reviewer2084166
Application Development Manager at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
Compared to other solutions, licensing costs are in the mid-range.
View full review »It appears that most companies choose HPE Quality Center Enterprise or HPE ALM. HPE ALM contains everything included with Quality Center Enterprise, and further adds features focused on cross-project customization, planning, and tracking.
Seat and concurrent licensing models exist; the latter is recommended if a large number of different users will be utilizing the product. There is also the option of utilizing HPE ALM/Quality Center Enterprise as hosted on HPE’s SaaS platform.
View full review »Pricing is very big, so it's good is to negotiate with its vendors. The solution is not so important and should not cost so much.
View full review »HPE has always been flexible in terms of pricing and licensing, but we are a bit concerned with the fact that it is now in the hands of Micro Focus and things may change.
View full review »Licenses are a major factor -- they are not inexpensive but with concurrent licensing our global IT groups are able to share licenses around the clock.
View full review »I encourage clients to use the built in service accounts and APIs where practical.
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The infrastructure set up cost which included the server’s hardware, Agent Servers.
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reviewer1662489
National Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I've never been in the procurement process for it. I don't think it is cheap. Some of the features can be quite expensive.
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reviewer1357974
Performance and Automation Testing Squad Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
As an end-user, of course I'm going to say that it's too expensive and I want things cheaper, but don't we all?
Aside from the standard licensing fee there are no additional costs. It's set up with a good agreement that runs three-yearly.
View full review »It is expensive.
View full review »HPEs licensing model is inflexible, rigid, and is not customer-centric.
View full review »If you have more than five users, a concurrent licensing model should be considered. With concurrent licenses, there is no need to search for machines with unused licenses.
View full review »HPE has failed desperately to offer a competitive enterprise for new customers in this market. If I have a new customer, three years ago I could sell them ALM site licenses. Now I need to sell them ALM global licenses, which is a hard sell because it is double the price. That just doesn't appeal for new customers. So I understand why they take JIRA or stick to Excel spreadsheets because HPE has priced themselves out of that market.
With Octane, you get more functionality; but it's like having Microsoft Word. How much of that functionality do you use? You probably use 20% out of the 80%. So I don't think that adding more functionality solves the problem. HPE desperately needs to get a low enterprise for new customers.
View full review »Understand what your company needs are, and how many users will need access. There are different licenses based on local, regional, and global access as needed as well as total amount of users. There is also licensing based at a modular level as well. Work with your HP Sales representative to get a pricing/licensing plan for your specific needs.
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reviewer1137345
Sr. Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I don't know the exact numbers, but I know it is pricey. When we talked to the sales reps we work with from our company, they say, "Well, Micro Focus will never lose on price." So, they are willing to do a lot of negotiating if it is required.
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reviewer1074789
Test Specialist at a consultancy with self employed
The solution has the ability to handle a large number of projects and users in an enterprise environment with the correct license.
Most vendors offer the same pricing, though some vendors offer a cheaper price for their cloud/SaaS solution versus their on-premise. However, cloud/SaaS solutions result in a loss of freedom. E.g., if you want to make a change, most of the time it needs to be validated by the vendor, then you're being charged an addition fee. Sometimes, even if you are rejected, you are charged because it's a risk to the entire environment.
View full review »It's priced high, and they should look into it to make it more competitive.
View full review »We had 2 months free trial and support from HP PS people.
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Pankaj Thakur
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy
ALM Quality Center is a little bit costly.
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Sai Kiran
Sr. Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Pricing is not my area, but in general, what I've seen when reading articles is that it is costly. That is the reason most customers are moving to the other solutions, which are much cheaper. That is the opinion of people I have spoken to in other companies.
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Mihai Grigorescu
Principal Consultant at Inspired Testing
The licensing costs vary from client to client. There are different prices for SaaS versus on-premises deployments, for example.
View full review »HPE is constantly updating its licensing to be competitive, but as a whole the pricing for ALM is very high for the local market and, as such, we see a larger adoption overseas.
View full review »If we have huge data and more number of users managing the data, then ALM is the best option for our organization. It also applies if your team is distributed, out-sourced or in-sourced.
View full review »Expensive tool which could become an overload on the budget in the future.
View full review »Pricing may be a factor prompting a look at competitor products and differentiators or open source options with limited product features. Licensing could leverage combo packs with HPE ALM such as HPE UFT, HPE LoadRunner, etc, as well as continued usage of product post-expiration of license without upgrade and technical support.
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Ivana Buljan
Product Development Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have divided our licenses between Micro Focus ALM and ALM Octane. It works for us.
View full review »It is definitely overpriced. Most of the cost is for support that you rarely need if you have an onsite admin.
View full review »Just want to advise to use ALM SaaS in case you don’t want to use ALM all your life. It is cheaper and provides you with all the ALM features but for some period of time. Also, you don’t need to install it manually, the entire environment is already installed.
View full review »It depends on your vendor. SkyIt was the best, as they were able to get the initial cost low enough so a small startup could afford it.
View full review »Pricing is high, but with new tools available in the market at a lower price, it is worth doing a decision analysis and resolution.
View full review »It is totally over-priced.
View full review »It can be expensive to own.
View full review »It is totally over-priced.
View full review »In my current role, I don't advise anyone about pricing and licensing for this product.
View full review »This is an excellent tool for larger companies. It has been my experience that it is not cost-effective in medium or small-scaled companies.
View full review »It's a bit costlier when compared to other tools on the market, and you have to haggle with HP for this product.
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Ravi Suvvari
Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are many free-ware tools available, which you can try.
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Nimmagadda Sudhir
Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
No suggestions.
View full review »Varies.
View full review »I would not recommend this product If you have a small organization, which would not use this tool very often.
The pricing is very expensive, but it covers a full solution, which means, you will use a lot of functionalities and gain in time and efficiency.
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Oluseye Oyede
Software Quality Assurance & Testing Specialist, MTN Nigeria Ltd at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I suggest organizations should attempt cloud services.
View full review »Nowadays, all companies are looking for free software, and for this reason, many companies are developing their own tools similar to Quality Center and using that tool instead. License costs have a direct effect on the ROI of the company.
View full review »I believe that the tool is probably not worth great expense, although it is better than remaining tied to documents and spreadsheets.
View full review »Not certain
View full review »Depends on company direction.
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Srinivasa Chamarty
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Very expensive.
View full review »It is very pricey. To be fair, it is geared for enterprise use. Unless the company and the decision maker (who would say “yes” to paying for it) is convinced on benefits of the product, it is not a go. Medium businesses would not buy into it.
View full review »Pricing is high compared to other solutions.
View full review »For pricing, I recommend to buy a bundled package. Check the HPE site for more details.
View full review »This is for big software houses, so costs and especially yearly renewal of support is very very expensive.
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OpenText ALM / Quality Center
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about OpenText ALM / Quality Center. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.