LoadRunner Enterprise helps identify bottlenecks in our high-traffic application scenarios. It identifies bottlenecks by monitoring slow response times and exposing errors that might emanate from an application under load. 

It's able to expose these factors to us, allowing us to monitor through LoadRunner and see how the infrastructure is coping during the load test. So, we get a lot of insight into how the application is performing under load.

Moreover, LoadRunner was instrumental in scaling our application for peak load testing. 

There have been situations where we were able to expose some performance degradation, especially in our BI and AIU processes, when a change was implemented to an existing application. We would perform a regression test and sometimes find out that whatever changes had been made actually degraded the application's performance. We were able to expose that and report accordingly for remedial actions to be implemented. 

In terms of scaling up the application, especially for new applications where the business expects it to handle a significant load, we find out through testing if it doesn't meet their requirements. Then, we can advise whether the infrastructure needs to be expanded, scaled out, or up, and we implement solutions accordingly until it meets the requirements.

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Performance testing is one of the checklist items for us, irrespective of the release or changes done at the backend. We have customer-focused applications in our business. If the customers are not happy with the way they are accessing the application, it impacts our business. That is the reason why performance testing is a must. LoadRunner is playing a very significant role in completing our tasks.

LoadRunner Enterprise has reduced our workload. We are also using JMeter for some of the applications where API testing needs to be done. JMeter requires a lot of customization using Java, but that is not the case with LoadRunner. It definitely makes our work easy.

LoadRunner Enterprise also saves time. For example, for a script in JMeter, I would have to spend four to five hours in JMeter, including the test data setup and then validating multi-user iterations, whereas, with LoadRunner Enterprise, I can complete that in two to three hours. It saves 50% of the time. LoadRunner Enterprise is also better than JMeter in terms of competency or skills. For example, for JMeter, you need to have a knowledge of Java, but that is not the case with LoadRunner Enterprise. It is as easy as understanding any simple script.

LoadRunner Enterprise has been helpful in simulating the load, but not in the analysis as per our needs. If I can have additional features that will help us in performance engineering, and not just in the testing, it would be great. If we are able to analyze and have exact hot spots during the testing itself, we would not have to depend on any of the APM tools. That will definitely add value.

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I use UFT for functional testing in your API testing workflows.

I work with LoadRunner in a distributed environment. 

It performs very well. I have no problem with it. LoadRunner has one major advantage compared to all other tools I know from the market. It's old enough and can test almost every tool in the companies I enter. It supports between 35 and 60 different software applications which need to be tested. 

With LoadRunner, I have one tool that can test everything. If I'm using, for example, JMeter, JMeter can test only web-based APIs and some limited user interfaces, and then I have to use another tool for the others. 

So, this is the main advantage, and this is why I choose to work with LoadRunner. It's not a perfect tool, but it does the job in terms of distributed applications with different technologies in the corporate environment.

Moreover, the integration capabilities are impressive, especially with Dynatrace. It was a significant advantage last week to harvest information directly from Dynatrace, a monitoring system. Previously, when LoadRunner was associated with HP or Microsoft, there was a push to bundle LoadRunner with their monitoring tools. 

If you didn't purchase LoadRunner alongside their monitoring solutions, managing separate logs became a necessity. However, now that LoadRunner integrates with Dynatrace and other monitoring tools, it simplifies the process of integration into a company, taking merely five minutes to set up. 

This ease of integration allows for quick comparison of monitoring and performance results, a feature I highly appreciate.

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We implemented LoadRunner Enterprise for test coverage. With manual testing or other tools, there are only so many tests that we can run in a given time window. There are only so many tests we can do by manually sitting there and without throwing thousands of people out to testing and having consistent results coming back. When we do an upgrade, there is not just functional testing but also things like load testing and performance testing. We are rolling out Azure Information Protection in the next couple of months. One of the things we have to answer before it goes live is if we turn it on and run it in the way our business works, what is the impact when it comes to user concurrency and user profiles? Is it going to work or is it going to collapse under its own weight? Are they going to notice? What is the operational impact? What is the impact that they needed? Is it an extra ten milliseconds or an extra two minutes to upload a document? Being able to model all that and have controlled evidence available for all the different tests is helpful. 

With LoadRunner now being a part of the OpenText family, there is knowledge sharing between the sibling applications. It means that LoadRunner is better positioned or should be better positioned to pick up their other solutions and support them, and we do not have to start from scratch.

We have various customers who use our solutions. Every time we roll out a new integration, change, or upgrade, there are always SLAs. There are always user expectations for how long things take. There is always bug hunting going on in regression testing and making sure that we have not broken anything. Being able to automate those kinds of tests along with the load and performance testing helps reduce the complexity and risk of those activities to the business. With a complex system, there is a risk that we change something over here, and the butterfly flaps its wings, and we end up with something broken over there. We do not see it because we are looking at that new bit over here, and by having a regression test, we can just get a certain percentage done, but with an automated tool, we come across the entire piece. We can identify a suspect and have a look at it. We can see that if we do this combination of data and this combination of settings or users, it works, and then we change this, and it now does not work. We can then fix it. As we roll out new features and functionalities, we can do performance testing. We can do load testing, and we can make sure that for these new features and functionalities, we are ready with the infrastructure to support them. If we roll it out today, and it struggles, then I know in advance that I can put more infrastructure in so that when we turn it on, things work. I can also take it year by year and slot by slot and compare the data and say that my performance metrics were within this, and they have changed. If it comes up towards the SLA or towards the kind of points where the users begin to spot it, I can take action and ask for some extra storage space. If we have 10 gigs a month and a 100 gigs drive, by month eight, we need to order some more space. We do not want to find out two weeks before we get into the tenth month. By being able to see those trends, graphs, and response times for SLAs, but also for general performance and overviews, we can begin to make sure that everyone is heading in the right direction. 

For me, having a wider test coverage—not just functional testing but performance and load testing—means that I have less to worry about because I have more coverage. I can have five guys for a week pressing buttons, or I can have LoadRunner do a regression test suite of x thousand cases in the same amount of time. For coverage, it is a much more useful tool. It has a history. It is great. It is not a new product that OpenText just built themselves. They have got an industry-leading group of people who really understand things, so it is a great addition.

I do not personally use LoadRunner Developer. All the test automation is done by my test automation team. It is very important for me to be able to turn around changes for customer numbers and have things out there. When I started with the OpenText Stack, they were doing one release every two or three years, whereas now, they are doing quarterly releases. When you have got heavily customized systems, or you have got quarterly releases, and you have got all these integrations with SharePoint, SuccessFactors, Salesforce, and other types of applications, the number of things that you have to certify and accredit for testing every time you live is overall a much bigger headache in the connected world. There is just the nuance of all the different variants, data models, and business cases and scenarios that you see, so it is becoming massively unattainable to do that. Having a tool like LoadRunner to do that for you and additionally, having it as a part of the family is valuable. They are on the inside, and they have deep integrations or deep access to all the other OpenText lines of business groups and vice versa. Both sides are going to benefit and grow from that close integration. It just allows me to be able to say that I can shift left because I have the confidence that automated testing has done all my use cases. I have got my performance data. I have got my load data, and I am more within SLA. Trying to do that manually or with some other tools takes a lot longer to get to that, and we do not always get the complete coverage that we want. There is always some risk around how many test cases you can manage running in a week versus just running a tool to plow through them.

Most of my test automation guys use the scripting engine and some of the drag-and-drop features depending on what they are doing, such as building the usage profiles and the automation for the things that they want to do. The tool is shortening the amount of time it takes us to build those automated test use cases. We have use cases for adding a document as a user, as a records management user, as an admin, as someone who has sysadmin rights, or as someone whose first language is French. We get all of these little nuances of access and permissions and everything else, and it becomes interesting. Being able to use tools to deliver all that makes life easier for me. 

The more I spend time with these tools, the more I understand not just the technical benefits but also how they benefit the end-user community. I understand how they can be used to deliver business goals rather than just technical metrics and help shape what we do and give a reflective user experience. We get to compare what our users do on that client system, and we can quickly build user profiles for that particular client rather than throwing 200 generic requests. We do not work like that because then you end up with incorrect data, and you make wrong designs.

LoadRunner Enterprise has helped streamline our testing processes. My team is primarily focused on the content management space where we have the cadence of quarterly releases. We have our own custom modules, and there are custom builds that we have done for customers. We are quickly able to do regression testing, performance testing, load testing, and new feature testing. We are able to test all the different permutations of user location and object types. We are able to test different variants such as adding a document and then adding an email here or there. We are able to package that part and run it as a part of our deployment pipeline, which allows us to align more closely with clients. We are not a year or two behind of where they were, which used to be the only way of doing it previously. It also assures us that even though we are going faster, we are actually doing more while going faster. We are not going faster and doing less. We are now getting more value.

LoadRunner Enterprise reduced our workload or made our life easier. They are a pain to set up, but we have to invest the time to set up the profiles for the users in terms of what the users do on the system. Do they add documents? Do they read documents? We have to understand what those profiles look like so that we can replicate what the client would do, but once we get that and we run them, I know that they reflect my client. They are an accurate reflection of what the client does. I know that the regression testing is going through all the historic and new things, and everything works. With the performance or load testing, I know that as I turn on any feature in prod, which is always different from every other environment, it is going to work. It is not going to collapse under its own weight. It is going to be performance within SLA and within expectation for end users without causing too many problems, so it becomes a useful armory to be able to say to the business that this is going to work. We are able to model situations where we turn something on, and it does not work because we do not have enough infrastructure. We turn it off again and put more infrastructure in, and we turn it on again and see if it works. Being able to model all of that and find thresholds or breakpoints or being able to prove that we can get the throughput makes the conversations easier. It makes the journey smoother as we do things.

LoadRunner Enterprise has helped improve our product quality.

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OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise has improved the team's productivity. The results that I produce after the test help my team. 

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Looking at the load of more of the applications and the testing needs have definitely been met. Even new users or interns can manage the solution, so there's a low learning curve.

It's a market leader and a pioneer. People enjoy working on it. It helps give them a career boost and opens up opportunities. 

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It is our primary performance testing tool. There was a period when we weren't doing a heavy level of performance testing. It led to a couple of outages of our website, and we had to go ahead and slam LoadRunner into production to address problems with performance. We haven't had an outage since we started using the solution.

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The tools help us to validate the scalability of applications and the limitations of the end-user apps. The main purpose of usage of this tool is to validate the performance of newly developed applications before they are deployed on production. This tool will help us to mimic end-user actions and measure response times from various locations in addition to checking the maximum concurrency supported.

We have used this tool on multiple applications to measure the performance of the system under test. Loadrunner became our enterprise solution for performance testing.

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It delivers multiple benefits across various aspects. We can efficiently monitor all of the system resources and network usage. It also helps us to identify performance bottlenecks, and optimize application performance.

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LoadRunner Enterprise has helped our organization in being able to document everything and maintain the history. This way, in the future, if the product gets enhanced or new features get added, you know what was tested previously, and then you also have the new stuff. You have the history of those changes and all the testing that has been done.

We use the TruClient feature for browser-based testing, but I am not the end user for it. My guess is that it is helpful for reducing scripting work.

LoadRunner Enterprise has affected our users. Testing is obviously a must before you release a software product. The fact that you can automate some of the testing, and you can do stress testing, performance testing, and simulate a load as if users are actually using it helps a lot. You better understand how the application will operate when it gets into production, and if there are issues, you can spot those early on.

LoadRunner Enterprise has helped streamline our testing processes. We have a process in place for users who need access to it. There is a governance team for the rules and how the product should be used and not. There is a little bit more structure. Based on what I have heard in the organization, it does appear to help them. LoadRunner Enterprise makes it easier for them to be able to do their tasks. They can automate things without them having to manually do it.

LoadRunner Enterprise has helped save us time, but I do not have the metrics.

LoadRunner Enterprise has helped improve our product quality. We can spot issues early on. That helps a lot. This way, we are aware of the issue before we go live in production. We can remediate it before the product goes live.

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OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise has allowed us to reduce incidents and focus and ensure code and quality are built into our delivery.

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It's quite versatile. As a company, we have applications that span across different platforms and technologies, including legacy. We've been using it for applications on mainframes and with the latest technologies as well. We are able to attain our requirements from a performance testing standpoint. It helps us to be confident and to be aware of where issues are before we release a product to a wider audience.

When you have that scalability, it helps in performing end-to-end testing seamlessly. Our organization has applications that span multiple applications and technologies, to complete a single business process. That type of scalability helps us to achieve our performance testing objectives.

It has definitely helped us to identify the performance bottlenecks. Whenever we get into the procurement of other applications, we consider the historical performance KPIs. That really helps us to define those optimum KPIs with respect to other vendors.

In terms of efficiency, certain features have been introduced that were quite complementary and have really helped us with our delivery.

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When it comes to delivering enterprise-level testing capabilities, this solution is really good.

Using this tool, we are able to test an application end-to-end from any area. Specifically, we are able to test our applications that are used across geographies. This includes worldwide locations starting from one end of Asia to the other end of the Americas. Geographically, we have full testing coverage for virtually all of our enterprise applications.

In terms of application coverage, there have been very few or no applications at the enterprise level that we have not been able to test using this tool. I think there is only one, but that was a unique case. Apart from that, at an enterprise level, in terms of coverage and geographically as well as technically, we have been able to test everything using this solution.

OpenText has a platform where I can share what is good and what further improvements I can make. There is also a community where we can leave feedback.

As an admin, I have the ability to copy all of the details from one project to another. However, I don't recall functionality for cross-project reporting. If there are two projects available then I cannot run a load test or report metrics from the other project.

LoadRunner Enterprise offers multiple features to perform a deep dive into a project. For example, we can see how many load tests of a particular application were run over a certain period of time. We can also see what scripts and tests were built over a time period. There is lots of information that it provides.

It is very important that we are able to drill down into an individual project because we sometimes have to look into what set of tests was executed for a particular project, as well as how frequently the tests were run. This helps us to determine whether the results were similar across different executions, or not. For us, this is an important aspect of the functionality that this tool provides.

One of the major benefits, which is something that we have gained a lot of experience with, is the internal analytics capability. It has multiple graphical and analytical representations that we can use, and it has helped us a lot of times in pinpointing issues that could have caused SEV1 or SEV2 defects in production.

We found that when we ran the load test, those issues were identified by using the analytic graphs that LoadRunner provides. Based on this knowledge, we have been able to make the required corrections to our applications. After retesting them, we were able to release them to production. This process is something that we find very useful.

In terms of time, I find it pretty reasonable for test management. There are not too many things that we have to do before starting a load test. Once one becomes good at scripting, it does not take long. Of course, the length of time to run depends on how big and how complex the script is. Some load tests have five scripts, whereas some have between 25 and 30 scripts. On average, for a test with 10 scripts, the upper limit to set it up and run is a couple of hours.

Overall, we don't spend too much time setting up our tests.

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It helped us to achieve our goals within the stipulated time and is a good solution for load testing. The integration was smooth, and all the help can be found in the Micro Focus help blog. The examples were helpful for new protocols and functions. 

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It's our main tool for performance testing.

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We initially used LoadRunner Enterprise on a project basis. However, it exceeded our expectations, and we bought a small number of licenses. 

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It allows us to on the reporting end show how even though we don't have a smoking gun on this release, and it made everything so terrible that we've got real quality issues, we know when it started and that it's only getting worse. When you're tracking many subtle interactions, this is helpful.

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This helps us to uncover some very high and critical performance-related defects, and keeping almost zero production issues related to the performance of applications since then.

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Some of the key-business and mission-critical applications released earlier into production were having issues in terms of key business transactions running slowly, which were impacting the end-user experience. The slow business transactions were causing grief to several customers, which eventually led to customers being moved onto different competitor products, causing revenue loss. There was increased downtime of applications in production due to poor application performance.

With the help of HP Performance Center and LoadRunner, we were able to critically evaluate the applications performance and stability, and were assured that each application that was released into production was performing better and meeting all SLAs, including transactional response times and system and platform resource utilization.

We have received excellent feedback in one specific instance where a customer came directly to me, and said that they are seeing much better transactional response times, which helped them serve customers faster, and now they are seeing their customers coming back.

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We have high confidence that the results are reliable. It's helped catch multiple bugs before they've gone to production. And we're able to more confidently release software into production, just more confidently release code.

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One of the key things we use is simulating the actual user experience on the log. We have a huge set of applications from front end to the back end systems. How do we integrate all these systems and how do we simulate the real time user behavior? That's where we see a key value.

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In my current organization, I honestly don't know so much. But in my previous organization, when I was doing consulting, we helped huge amounts of customers prepare not to fail under scale. So whether you have a large amount of base driven things like Super Bowl, or a major sale, release of a new product like Samsung S8, iPhone 7, etc. Basically when you get a huge push.

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It's allowed us to really focus on load testing and to get some results that we've reported to our business managers.

Another thing we really like is that it takes advantage of our monitoring tools when we're performance testing. They work well together.

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We are able to run performance tests for Asia, EU, and the US from a centralized controller where each team can come together in their respective time zones, build and run the tests, as a test manager can review, and suggest various improvements along with infrastructure teams.

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It's really given us a lot of insight into, especially as we've moved into DevOps now, incorporating that into our CI lifecycle. We can start the performance testing earlier on, carry the same results through, and have it as part of our release cycle.

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• Multiple users from different locations can login.
• We can view tests at run time, which has helped us to execute tests from different time zones.

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Actually we’re implementing and consulting with our customers in terms of performance testing using LoadRunner or Performance Center.

For example, we’re in the middle of a project for implementing a distributed Performance Center system, with six load generators for testing an Oracle ERP system that holds about 800,000 users, with an average annual increase of 40,000 users.

Our target is to implement Performance Center, integrate it with HP ALM, design the load tests for simulating 70K virtual users that are hitting the system with different scenarios, and finally we will present reports to ERP management staff about the response trend of the system, such as virtual users passed/failed, server throughput/sec, transactions taken time etc.

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My organization teaches Performance Center, and we find over and over that its the top choice for an enterprise solution to performance testing. Because it integrates with Application Lifecycle Management, it is a natural choice for any organization that already uses HP software solutions. While the installation of any server-based application can be complicated, Performance Center is remarkably straightforward by comparison, and for some time HP software has been known for its ease of use and, consequently, appeal to a broad user base.

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In terms of having one tool it is helpful in terms of training. It has really great reporting features, so not only is it a good tool to do testing with, but when it comes to helping you produce good results that you can present up, it's an all around tool that has everything that you need within it. You don't have to go to other third-party tools for reporting or for different types of testing. It's a tool that is "one size fits all".

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It centralized our ability to offer a performance engineering service. We’ve been up as a one-stop shop for projects and programs to come in. We know what tools we’re going to use. Rather than custom fitting something for each project, we can say, “This is what we're going to recommend."

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It gives us advanced reporting. Allows us to compare performance as we make application changes, and scale to the level that we need as a large organization.

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I am a performance tester, and I need a product that can maintain my scripts, scenarios, monitors and run logs. Performance Center is my product of choice.

Just recently, I used the command line feature to create scripts that can be used across multiple environments. That feature saved me a great deal of time --thousands in man hours over the last year.

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Prior to upgrading to Performance Center, my organization used a shared spreadsheet to schedule or reserve resources such as load generators or controllers. The built-in feature of Performance Center that does this, has made allocation of resources much, much easier.

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We've eliminated a lot of production issues because we are able to test so many virtual users at once. It's pretty amazing to run a test environment and have virtual five thousand users. We also need to 24/7 support for our thousands of customers. This solution gets all the bugs out of other applications so when they do go to run, they're ready.

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Previously, we had different physical machines for each controller, and then we shifted to Performance Center. It allows users to log into a single instance and to manage all other controllers from there.

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It has contributed greatly to the performance/stress testing of our application prior to going live and deployment. It gives our project teams a level of comfort and a baseline idea of how the performance of our application will be after going into production.

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• It made performance testing for global teams work more natural.
• Performance Application Lifecycle allowed us to really build our load test according to the traffic we see in production.
• Trending shows us exactly the performance impact of our latest software changes.
• Using Jenkins, we managed to automate our performance testing as part of the CI.

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It's a rather complex product. There are always things that could be better, such as new protocols that allow for more efficient testing and sharing of data across our teams.

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It has improved our organizational performance. We are delivering fine performance results and performance recommendations using Performance Center.

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Maximum utilization of controller as we operate from India, UK and US in different time zones.

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We are able to connect and run tests from different locations with this tool.

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On a day-to-day basis, we're working very tight with developers. We use this tool to:

• Outline the details in our systems on the test
• Give feedback to our developers and they do changes
• Test again

It's really good

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• Enterprise-level load tests
• Great analysis module for results

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For me, it's the best product for a performance team covering a large range of technologies and constraints.

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We are able to manage and monitor our entire environment. We're also able to perform capacity management, performance management, and configuration management.

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My organization was not using any other product so I won't be able to compare it to others, but this product was really helpful in providing us the the detailed analysis of the tests that we conducted.

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It gives you a wide-ranging view on performance bottlenecks, from CPU to memory to network etc. This helps identify possible bottlenecks in the production environment, as well as the expected/unexpected loads.

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It is used to empower our organisation in assisting customers, addressing their concerns, finding solutions, and providing value, thus making it possible to put customer success first, and in the process, focus on the business.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a recognized leader in the performance testing space, and with every new software release, it continues to solidify it's position as a front-runner and as an innovator.

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