HP LoadRunner

• How do you determine if an application or system will meet the needs of the business before going live?
• Are undetected application bottlenecks resulting in slow time or downtime in production?
• Are you struggling to deploy business systems smoothly, with no performance surprises?
• How do you know if an application or system can scale to the desired level of usage in production?

 HP LoadRunner® prevents costly performance problems in production by detecting bottlenecks before a new system or upgrade is deployed. You can verify that new or upgraded applications will deliver intended business outcomes before go-live, preventing over-spending on hardware and infrastructure. It is the industry-standard load testing solution for predicting system behavior and performance, and the only integrated load testing, tuning, and diagnostics solution in the market today. With LoadRunner Web testing software, you can measure end-to-end performance, diagnose application and system bottlenecks, and tune for better performance – all from a single point of control. It supports a wide range of enterprise environments, including Web Services, J2EE, and .NET.

With LoadRunner, you can:

• Obtain an accurate picture of end-to-end system performance.
• Verify that new or upgraded applications meet specified performance requirements.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks during the development lifecycle.

HP Diagnostics

• Are your application management processes adequate for complex composite application environments?
• Are application outages impacting your business availability or increasing the risk and cost of providing a high-quality service?
• Are your mission-critical applications difficult to test, monitor, and manage?
• Do you feel helpless when there is no actionable data to solve outages?
• Are you spending more time and money keeping the lights on than you spend delivering business outcomes?

 HP Diagnostics™ is a best-of-breed solution that helps you ensure 24x7 application availability and performance in production and pre-production environments to provide better service to the business. Only HP Diagnostics enables you to start with the end user (real users or synthetic-scripted transactions) and then drill down in context to quickly resolve a broad range of problems that can impact business availability. Examples of these problems include:

• End users experiencing slow performance when submitting orders.
• Intermittent failure of online portal for order status.
• Business-critical applications running out of memory.
• Failure of one node on a cluster every day.

HP Diagnostics provides broad monitoring and deep root-cause analysis capabilities and is a true lifecycle solution that bridges the gap between organizational silos to enable effective collaboration even among diverse, dispersed teams. It provides end-to-end visibility into application performance across the lifecycle.

With HP Diagnostics, you can:

• Reduce the number and duration of incidents—lowering the costs associated with problem identification and resolution.
• Lower costs by reducing fault management efforts and hardware and software expenses for fast time to value.
• Collaborate across team boundaries and streamline the learning curve of those responsible for maintaining J2EE, .NET, and ERP/CRM applications.

HP Diagnostics supports a variety of platforms and solutions including, but not limited to, the following:

• Industry-leading J2EE application servers such as Weblogic, Websphere, Oracle, Fujitsu Interstage, TMaxSoft, ATG, and Sun One.
• Industry-leading portal solutions such as Weblogic Portal, Websphere Portal, and SAP Enterprise Portal.
• Industry-leading SOA platforms, packaged application technologies (SAP, Oracle), mainframe back ends (MQ Series, CICS), and enterprise databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2).
• Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime (1.1 & 2.0).
• Industry-leading application JVMs from Sun, IBM, BEA, and HP.
• Various open source platforms and frameworks such as JBoss, Tomcat, Struts, and Hibernate.

HP Performance Center software is an enterprise-class performance testing platform designed to enable both global standardization and the formation of a performance testing center or a performance testing IT shared service. It gives everyone from LOB managers to software testers project-level visibility and a collaborative working environment. Efficiencies that arise from centralization and standardization, such as common skills sets, common hardware and licenses, and around-the-clock follow-the-sun usage help IT organizations test effectively at lower cost.

With HP Performance Center you can:

• Lower the cost of distributed load testing
• Reduce the risk of deploying systems that do not meet your performance requirements
• Reduce hardware and software costs by accurately predicting system capacity
• Drive productivity by providing one interface between the LOB and center
• Quickly and accurately pinpoint the root cause of application performance problem