Catchpoint vs OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) comparison

The compared Catchpoint and OpenText solutions aren't in the same category. Catchpoint is ranked #10 in DEM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 2.1% mindshare in the category. OpenText is ranked #4 in PTT , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 14.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Catchpoint and OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (37th), Network Monitoring Software (58th), Cloud Monitoring Software (31st), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (10th)

OpenText Professional Perfo...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (4th), Load Testing Tools (4th)

Mindshare comparison

Catchpoint and OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Catchpoint is designed for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and holds a mindshare of 2.1%, down 3.7% compared to last year.
OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional), on the other hand, focuses on Performance Testing Tools, holds 14.3% mindshare, up 12.8% since last year.

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AnmolRai

Technical Consultant Project Lead at Capgemini

Valuable monitoring features enhance ecommerce experience while improvement needed in region-specific insights

As part of the improvement, there are certain categories, like for the China market, where we face issues. We are currently using an external tool, Splunk, for reporting. If we could receive similar data for the China market as we do for North America and Asia Pacific, this would be helpful.

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HelenSague

Senior Performance Testing Specialist at Canadian Pacific Railway

A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications

I do not have any big challenges with LoadRunner. I only have some issues with load generators. It is a very common issue, and I hope it will be resolved in the latest release. For example, when we start to run our tests, users get the message that the load generator exceeded 80% of the CPU utilization. Even when the number of users is less, we get these messages. I am trying to resolve it, but it is not going. It is annoying. It is not a failure, but I hope that it will be resolved. IBM WebSphere MQ testing can be a bit challenging. It can handle that, but I hope that they will build more and more capabilities. We do a huge amount of testing for messaging. Just like aviation, the railway industry is based on messaging. There is messaging to build trains and messaging to create some bills. There are many train movements. Everything involves messaging. I wish that it will be developed more for IBM WebSphere testing. Monitoring is okay, but for testing, I currently have to create Java users. I have to load a lot of libraries from IBM WebSphere and so on.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features of Catchpoint are basically the transaction monitors on the API and UI."

"Catchpoint provides a great amount of information."

"The thing I like most is the tech support in this company, because they have 24/7 chat support. We can chat immediately and ask them about an issue and they keep responding. They create tickets on our behalf and respond."

"We really need the API monitoring, as well as client side session monitoring, the global synthetic monitoring, to track the availability of the systems from the customer side."

"The drill-down feature of this product was very good. It allowed us to identify the exact page or area of the site that was causing our customers an issue."

"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to identify and troubleshoot network issues."

"Catchpoint's customer service and support are valuable."

"Catchpoint helped us establish that something is in a provider network, so we could tell our customers to check their internet provider because the traffic is not getting to us. You need to be gentle when you tell them that, but the fact that we could do it was crucial."

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"I would definitely recommend OpenText LoadRunner Professional to other users."

"It has good protocol coverage."

"Paramterization and correlation are important features."

"The initial setup and installation of the software were very easy and straightforward."

"The reporting mechanism is a valuable feature that generates good reports."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to create performance test cases quickly and then execute them. It provides a lot of powerful features to do that very efficiently and effectively."

"The implementation was very straightforward and not an issue."

"I think that analytics is very good and that the analytics features are very powerful."

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Cons

"A room for improvement in Catchpoint is that it lacks an automated page updating feature. My company receives all the alerts and notifications it needs, but the page doesn't update automatically. You need to manually refresh the page, so every five minutes you need to refresh it to see the most updated information. If there's an automated page refresh feature, that would help my company. It's a feature that Grafana has. The page auto-refreshes in Grafana, so you don't have to manually refresh the page. If that feature is implemented in Catchpoint, it'll be useful for the users. Another area for improvement in the tool is you have to do a manual task, for example, when you have a notification for a market, you get a zip code that the user could have entered, but if the zip code is incorrect, you have to manually go into Catchpoint and update that parameter, so that manual step is another area in the tool that needs improvement."

"As part of the improvement, there are certain categories, like for the China market, where we face issues."

"if we need to do performance analysis, we have to click too many times. For example, if there is an issue that is caught by Catchpoint, we need to understand what the error is and at which step it failed, or which transaction that is impacted. To drill down, we have to click too many things to get the answer."

"Catchpoint can be improved by focusing solely on network monitoring."

"We would like the script creation feature of this solution to be improved, as it currently requires a complicated manual process to update the scripts."

"Trending needs improvement. Currently, out-of-the-box, they provide only seven days availability. So, we have to do queries and we have to go into a separate analysis module, we have to run lot of queries to long-term trends."

"The product could include global monitoring and predictive analytics to identify widespread issues and cyber threats."

"It would be great if Catchpoint could incorporate its alerting system instead of relying on separate tools like ServiceNow."

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"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high-quality technical support, I rate the support a one."

"If the support of the protocols was the same throughout the other protocols and it was there evenly, then I would rate the product higher."

"Licensing costs could be reduced."

"The initial start-up of Micro Focus LoadRunner could be improved. When we add 20 or 30 scripts, the refresh is completed one by one. I would like to be able to select all the script at one time, so it can be completed in a single click, reducing the time required."

"The debugging capability should be improved."

"The solution needs to reduce its pricing. Right now, it's quite expensive."

"LoadRunner experiences high resource utilization. Even though we have machines with higher configurations, I've observed this behavior. Heavy traffic recording results in the tool hanging. So heavy traffic recording makes the tool slow."

"We'd like the solution to be a bit more user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In terms of licensing fees, I believe they were slightly higher."

"The price and licensing are very, very high. They have to come down on the pricing to match with the industry standard."

"The solution's pricing is comparable to the last tool we were using."

"The solution's pricing varies based on services and licensing models."

"The pricing is based on consumption and works on a point scale. For example, let's say I want to look at www.google.com, and I'm going to test it to see if it's there. It will bring back all this data that tells me how long it took to connect and how long it took to get the first byte. It will list all the resources on the page, showing that they all work and there are no broken links. It brings that data back. That test has an assigned point value depending on what you decide to extract from that test. If all I do is check to see whether it's available, it might be one point. I don't know the exact point values off-hand. This is just an example."

"For licensing, we pay a lot for it. But the incentive is the support we get with it, that we pay once, and we are set."

"OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise's pricing is reasonable."

"This is not a cheap product."

"LoadRunner is more expensive than some competing products."

"The licensing of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional could improve. If it can be easier and the concurrent run can be included with the current total number of users, it would be helpful."

"Pricing depends on our choices because it depends on what type of protocol we are getting, what type of licensing we are getting, and what kind of relationships we have with HP and Micro Focus."

"LoadRunner Professional is an expensive product."

"The pricing model, especially when involving partners, could use some improvement."

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Penetration and Neoload Tester at a university with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 13, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Educational Organization

17%

Retailer

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Catchpoint?

Catchpoint is very flexible and also provides logs for troubleshooting purposes. It helps us fix issues within the SLAs signed with the end users. The tool is easy to learn.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Catchpoint?

The solution's pricing varies based on services and licensing models. Clients typically see significant operational and cost efficiencies, with time savings estimated between 30% and 40%.

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What needs improvement with Catchpoint?

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What do you like most about Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?

When designing a workload model offers a good range of possibilities for creating goal-oriented scenarios, which helps us understand and meet SLAs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?

The pricing should be reduced and made more competitive.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?

I would like to improve OpenText LoadRunner Professional based on what we discussed in our last discussion, as those points remain similar and applicable. For future updates, I would like to see th...

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Also Known As

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Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional, Micro Focus LoadRunner, HPE LoadRunner, LoadRunner

Overview

Catchpoint is the Internet Resilience Company™. The top online retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs in the world rely on Catchpoint to increase their resilience by catching any issues in the Internet Stack before they impact their business. Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) suite offers synthetics, RUM, performance optimization, high fidelity data and flexible visualizations with advanced analytics. It leverages thousands of global vantage points (including inside wireless networks, BGP, backbone, last mile, endpoint, enterprise, ISPs, and more) to provide unparalleled observability into anything that impacts your customers, workforce, networks, website performance, applications, and APIs.

Learn more at: https://www.catchpoint.com/

Catchpoint

OpenText Professional Performance Engineering, known as LoadRunner Professional, stands out with its powerful scripting tool, flexible capabilities, and extensive analytics, supporting numerous concurrent users for impactful load testing.

This performance engineering tool offers integration across systems and strong community support, paired with user-friendly interfaces. It excels in features like multi-protocol support, auto-correlation, and detailed reporting. However, improvements are needed in user-friendliness and cost-effectiveness, as scripting remains complex and pricing is a hurdle. Enhancing mobile and SPA testing capabilities, modern protocol support, and compatibility with non-Windows platforms would greatly benefit users while expanding monitoring and technical support responsiveness.

What are the key features of OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

Powerful Scripting Tool: Facilitates complex load testing scenarios.
Flexible Engine: Supports various test configurations.
Multi-Protocol Support: Ensures broad compatibility.
Extensive Analytics: Provides real-time performance stats.
Concurrent User Simulation: Enables robust load testing.
Auto-Correlation: Simplifies script creation.
Comprehensive Reporting: Offers detailed insights.

What benefits should users expect from LoadRunner Professional?

Enhanced System Performance: Identifies and rectifies bottlenecks.
Cost Efficiency: Strategic use can reduce overall costs.
Industry Compatibility: Adapts to diverse environments.
Scalability: Supports applications with varied user loads.
Performance Benchmarking: Ensures optimal application performance.

LoadRunner Professional is employed for performance and load testing across sectors such as banking, hospitality, and telecommunications. Users simulate business transactions and test applications under different user loads, focusing on API testing, web applications, and benchmarking to achieve optimal performance in complex scenarios.

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Sample Customers

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JetBlue, GOME, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, RMIT University, Virgin Media

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