We did not evaluate other solutions. In Thailand, right now, Micro Focus is the only product of this sort that is used for virtualization and testing of the banking system. IBM and CA also have this kind of software but they are not focused in my country we find some difficult to contact for doing POC.

I don't want to provide any names, but there are many other players in the market, from thirty-year old companies to newer two-year old ones. They all are doing well. They all provide benefits to their respective domains.

If you ask me, everybody is trying and definitely HPE is among the market leaders. They really perform good market research and have good expertise with a good amount of dollars invested.

I don't just go and purchase by name, by product, or by need. Here’s my process:

1. I would go and explore a minimum of three different vendors.
2. Bring them in-house, ask them to design a prototype, and perform a PoC.
3. Study the vendor profile, how good they are with you in your journey, and where your IT is moving.
4. Follow the end-to-end processes, because it gives you enterprise framework vision, of how your IT landscape is going to look.
5. Then do the selection based on your financial technology, maintenance, support, and your comfort, and see if your organization's needs are matching.

Use these five major criteria, I usually call them five finger criteria, and the one that ticks the most products is the product that you select.

We did look at the IBM Solution, I looked at ITKO LISA (CA LISA). We also looked into Ready API by SmartBear which the SmartBear one was gonna be a little too complicated for some of the team members I had. It wasn’t bad, it just was a little too complicated. IBM was coming in kind of at the same price but I guess I kind of had a little HP bias. LISA was just outrageous for our budget. We could not afford LISA, and I even worked with some people that worked at LISA in the Dallas area and said you know, you can’t afford it. It’s not gonna work so when we brought it and did the proof of concept I was told by quite a few people in the industry that said here’s the deal, if you get it in and you can implement the first service that you execute and it fires right up and it works for you, it’s gonna work for everything in your group. I brought it, implement it, it took me probably no less than 30 seconds to stand up a virtual service and start consuming it in my performance environment, I was sold from that.

We evaluated CA LISA, Parasoft, and IBM GreenHat before choosing this product.

We evaluated ITKO LISA and IBM RIT, but considering our requirements and cost, we found HP SV much more suitable for us.

I was heavily involved with our Patson USA team when they were tasked with choosing the right platform for our clients and we evaluated all the competitors. We evaluated Cecilia, Parasoft, as well as IBM Green Hat, the Micro Focus service virtualization tool, and an open source, at that time, SmartBear also had service virtualization capability (I believe they do now, as well). We evaluated all of that. We put about 1500 criteria of what are we looking for in a service virtualization platform. We consulted with entire enterprise architecture teams. Many different teams collaborated with them and came up with that 1500 criteria, and this is how we were heavily involved in that decision-making.

We moved recently from HPE Service Virtualization to Parasoft.

I had a trial of CA SV, but HPE is more intuitive and easy to use.