OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise ROI

VictorHorescu - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at iqst

There is an ROI. What LoadRunner does, is it prevents failures when there are many, many concurrent users in the systems of a company. 

For example, what I do is I find in my client's timeline the historical moment where their application crashed, and they actually calculate their own damage. 

Then I come with the performance test, and I take out as many performance bottlenecks as possible. So I tell them, "Look, now it will not crash in production because we have seen this exact situation." And I'm responsible to say for what I'm actually saying. But this is how I prove the value of the tool. 

Another way to prove the value of the tool, even when it's quite expensive in my opinion. But since it can test different applications in the system, I do split the cost of, 30 to 40 projects. And when I split the cost into 40 projects, I will have a return on investment because it becomes a little bit cheaper. It all depends on budgeting and the customer. If I have a customer with an open mind, I can justify the cost. 

If the customer is narrow-minded, then they don't want to use, and they are resistant to change, and they don't want to pay for trained professionals, I rather not sell. 

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Greg Griffiths - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead solutions architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

We have seen an ROI. For me and my teams, using automated testing tools from whichever vendor is saving us time and money and improving quality. It allows us to do all the regression testing and get performance data, which makes us able to spot bottlenecks and problems in what we are rolling out. We can see that something works at this scale, but when we try and scale it up, we start seeing issues or bottlenecks that we have to fix before we give it to a customer.

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Gopal Bansal - PeerSpot reviewer
Advisor at Fiserv

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is worth its money. 

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

We have witnessed an ROI, however, when you take into account how we're costing it's likely not a helpful number to share. 

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LS
System administrator at Costco Wholesale

Anything that can stop something that produces a million dollars a day from breaking is good.

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Ashok Kumar K - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We don't see an ROI as we mainly recommend the tool and clients use it.

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TN
Domain Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

My guess would be that we have seen an ROI.

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

We have seen an ROI. The product is worth the money.

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RM
Senior Consultant at Tieto Sweden AB

We found that the return on investment is around 50 percent, even if the tool is expensive. We have found bugs that would have been critical if we had pushed the application into production. The solution has made up for its cost by saving us from pushing faulty scripts into production.

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it_user339312 - PeerSpot reviewer
Stress And Volume (Performance) Test Lead at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It can lead to the generation of a very high ROI if you have the right people with the right expertise of the tool set.

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it_user337059 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Consultant at a government with 10,001+ employees

If the organization is going to test multiple protocols like Ajax, TruClient, Citrix, and SAP frequently, then there is definitely a high ROI in using this tool. If it's only the HTTP protocol being used, then other less expensive tools will be sufficient.

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

Our customers think of the following benefits as ROI of using HP Performance Center:

  • Reducing downtime in operations phase that may come due to load on system by fixing or customizing their application to afford the maximum number of concurrent users they expect
  • Prior knowledge of their system limitation and its break point, may let them take precautions steps at application server or network level to prohibit overload traffic that may crash their system.
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it_user324924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The HP sales team is much more qualified to discuss topics related to pricing and licensing. HP is very focused on building long-lasting relationships with its clients, and as such is willing to negotiate a combination that is favorable for both them and the client.

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

The return on investment is immeasurable. One of my first clients was an entertainment company that called us after their production site had gone down for a day. The reservation system was down for over six hours. They estimated they had lost in excess of three million dollars an hour. 

Regular performance testing prevents such occurrences. Needless to say they have not been down since.

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it_user334491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Software Test Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

ROI is excellent.

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RS
Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user671514 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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