OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise Other Solutions Considered

VictorHorescu - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at iqst

LoadRunner is easy to use. It's easy to test anything in any big corporation at an enterprise scale. So that's what I appreciate. It is easy to pass the knowledge to newcomers. 

And very heavy resource consumption and expensive. These are the cons.

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SR
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We did evaluate one or two other options before choosing LoadRunner. We looked at Silk Performer and another solution called Compuware. 

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reviewer9286520 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Lead at Novartis Pharmaceuticals

We did not evaluate other options. 

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Deepak Dhar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior delivery manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

OpenText LoadRunner is the leading solution as of now. There are definitely other tooling options available in the market, but if you are searching for an enterprise-level solution, LoadRunner is the number one product.

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JB
Director of Performance Testing at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

We evaluated NeoLoad, Ranorex, JMeter, and the Silk portfolio. We chose LoadRunner because of the breadth of support. No other tool had the breadth of support.

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Sreenivasula Mukkamalla - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr.Engineer csit Quality Assurance at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

I evaluated Apache JMeter before using Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise.

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RR
Team Lead at American Electric Power

I've also evaluated JMeter, but it doesn't support as many protocols as LoadRunner Enterprise.

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NJ
Performance Test Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I did not evaluate other tools before implementing this one.

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RM
Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Before we used Performance Center at all, we used LoadRunner (Corporate version, 50 licenses). But now we changed over almost entirely to Performance Center and we are phasing LoadRunner out. For a while, we were running both at the same time to compare them. The nice thing is that we do not need to have many controllers connected with Performance Center. The bad thing is that more than one person may want to use the same generator. So sometimes we have problems. I guess we had the same problem before when we used LoadRunner because everyone can't run a test at the same time.

There are some good things and some bad things about Performance Center in comparison to LoadRunner. The good thing is that you are able to share the screen while you are running a test. On the other hand, you do not get all the same information you get with LoadRunner when you run the tests. After you have done the tests, you can just copy the completed file and you get the same test results as if you had run on LoadRunner. So that is not really a problem. But when first running the Performance Center application for testing, I missed some of the information I got from LoadRunner. It is just a different presentation.

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it_user331326 - PeerSpot reviewer
Portfolio Testing Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We carried out various PoCs for different market leading tool sets, and chose HP Performance Center because it offers better test suites for our enterprise tools, ease of integration, and it had more collaboration with our existing tool sets. Also, the technology, current & future demands for various applications, was better than the other opetions and they offered better support arrangements.

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it_user484959 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Service Transition and Quality Management at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

We have to use other products like Selenium and a lot of custom scripting, et cetera, but that's the nature of the business. That ends up happening everywhere.

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it_user398358 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, IT Product Support at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Although there may be other products out there that do an amazing job, they don't necessarily have the skill set in the industry that makes it worth me going out there and looking at them.

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it_user324312 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Service Management Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

From outside HP no, but inside HP there are two solutions for doing the load testing; LoadRunner, and Performance Center. The concept is almost the same, but Performance Center excels in big projects, and working with different teams besides scheduling tests feature.

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it_user366069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Lead at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We also considered Microsoft. We chose HPE because of its breadth of capability.

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it_user343314 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed Performance Test Consultant at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

I was trained on HP LoadRunner and then Performance Center.  I was not involved in any evaluation process.

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it_user96453 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of QA at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user590508 - PeerSpot reviewer
R&D Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We considerd SOASTA CloudTest.

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it_user370137 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Specialist at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I've looked, but I haven't found any alternatives -- including web-based applications -- that are better than Performance Center.

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RS
Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user336363 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Load and Performance Test Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

No other options were looked at.

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it_user671514 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated LoadRunner.

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