OpenText Service Virtualization Valuable Features

Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Director, Share Holder at Marco Technology

It is easy to use. This is what I tell my customers. The coding is easier to develop as well.

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Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Director, Share Holder at Marco Technology

The feature which is most valuable in this solution is the ease of use. The product is
very easy to use and implement. Another thing is that we can adjust the performance
level. We can make the model simulate the best service, normal services or bad
situations in many possible ways.

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it_user101727 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager - Performance Engineering at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Service Virtualization cuts down dependency across dev as well as any third party components. We have saved a lot of round-trip time going back and forth trying to look for environments, trying to look for APIs that might have not even been built, so we already understand what the requirement is trying to build our own simulate and API and try to integrate them.

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it_user470511 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager- Technology Office at Technology Leader & Evangelist

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.

The important is thing is that Service Virtualization allows you, each and every individual, and each and every system, to be up at any time throughout the cycle.

That indirect cost impact is in the millions of dollars for any IT organization. The direct cause may be that the environment is down and that the tester is sitting for ten hours.

However, the indirect cost is that the end product is not achieving its release date. That is the business impact. If you look at the broader picture, the silos may be the Service Virtualization, but the end-to-end picture is that there is a huge impact, and that impact is actually priceless.

I cannot go and say that, "Okay, tomorrow I'm a mobile service. My apps are not going on mobile." So, I cannot calculate it, and I cannot write that particular dollar value, because I never know what it is.

For example, a sales platform may have the features that I have added, to give me a million dollar sale, or it may not. However, Service Virtualization allows you to release on time at least, so you can align with the strategy of your business.

It gives you granularity and transformation. My personal point of view is that Service Virtualization plays a major role in transforming your development, testing, and operating engineer into a business engineer.

The industry is moving towards Agile and DevOps. The most important thing is that each and every individual in your company is not thinking of themselves as individuals, but rather as if they are the end consumer, or running the business themselves.

Certain products have their own monopoly and they really don't want to share their market share. Service Virtualization enables you to share everything in terms of the protocol tier.

With a CRM system, you have all other systems integrated. You can virtualize and then the core system is CRM. And if you never virtualize, your own virtualization falls down. This is how it works.

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it_user285366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Some of the valuable features that I found in the tool is: we’re a big TIBCO shop so there’s a lot around TIBCO that has been very valuable for us, TIBCO EMS Virtualization. We have a little MQ, MSMQ so that was enticing, haven’t really dabbled in that much yet. The ability of bringing down net services, have it stand up all the virtual endpoints pretty quick and put it into a learning mode to where I can turn it on, let the functional testers test against real services all day, take that snapshot, turn it over to my performance test team, minor tweaks, and now I’m running a full performance test with faked out third parties with minimal development effort on my side, that’s awesome. Another feature that, it’s still in beta but it’s coming up that’s, I’m already starting to leverage is the scripted role that they put out there. It’s Javascript and C#, we’re a heavy C# shop. So I have my choice of developers. I go around and say, hey help me develop something that’s a little smarter, a smarter, server-virtualized service and, you know it’s easy ‘cause I just show it to ‘em, they get it and stand it up, and it’s good.

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it_user360591 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Tester with 1,001-5,000 employees

The main thing for us is that it does what we need it to do. There are many other product out there in the marketplace that will claim huge feature sets, but at the end of the day, you're actually looking for a product that just does what you need it to do.

Specifically, it's easy to set up and to get all your instructions from the HP website. You don't have to go through these horrible pre-sales and marketing pitches to get access.

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it_user285366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

REST and SOAP virtualization; we are a very heavy service-oriented company and very reliant on third-party services. Having the ability to test independently without development delay for integration has been very critical for our ability to deliver.

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it_user331632 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager, EAD QE CoE Lifecycle Virtualization at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

It is a scalable solution, capable of handling ~3,000 TPS. It supports a wide variety of message formats and transports.

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it_user367809 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Systems Engineer - Quality Assurance at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Most importantly for us, it integrates well with other products and we're able to get great support from partners and from HP.

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it_user491031 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate - SOA Test Automation and Service Virtualization Technical Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The data model and agents are easy to use and configure. Also, the logging functionality is very good.

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it_user467298 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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.
  • Ability to control virtual services from ALM, HP ServiceTest, LoadRunner, UFT.
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it_user739536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal consultant at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The whole service virtualization concept works on integration patterns, so the service virtualization should be supporting the regular RESTful services. However, it should also support services that listen and reply to MQs, generic JMS, SAP WebMethods integration server, universal messaging, or SAP virtualization database (or whatever virtualization you have, e.g., Java virtualization).

The support for these integration patterns and the ease of use to wizard-based utility is what I would consider the most important features for service virtualization platforms.

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it_user472194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager - Infrastructure at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a much more cost efficient approach to server deployment. Not as much hardware is being used now.

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it_user365925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical and Functional Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is an important product in both the production and test environments.

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it_user506871 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate Technology at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • HPE Service Virtualization Designer
  • Virtual services learning and recording data: We can keep virtual services in learn mode, simulate mode, etc., which is very good and everything is automatic. One can view the requests learned and change simulated data.
  • HPE Service Virtualization portal: There’s a similar feature in portal where we can park services in different modes.
  • Deploy and undeploy with a single click is an awesome feature.
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it_user468321 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
  • Being able to look at my entire infrastructure from a hardware standpoint, load on top of it, and virtualize the entire infrastructure.
  • Manage it with a single pane of glass.
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JS
Founder and Managing Partner at Better Now

The most valuable feature is SAP virtualization.

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it_user469167 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Service Virtualization is key. If a customer of ours is using applications that uses web services, we don't want to have them shell out a lot of extra money for pay-as-you go web services, or try to struggle with web services that aren't always available. That's where Service Virtualization comes in. They can create their own virtualized web services and not need to go to that outside vendor.

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it_user567618 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is quite quit easy to set up and use.

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it_user507303 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
  • Mock virtualization: I don't need to wait for the entire application to be developed before I can begin testing integrations and possibly new features. That makes my development more agile and safe, in addition to speeding up my functional and load tests.
  • Reduced risk and faster release cycles through earlier functional and load testing
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