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OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) pros and cons

Vendor: OpenText
4.2 out of 5

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PROS

OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) provides a centralized platform for performance testing, offering ease in upgrading and supporting a wide range of applications and protocols.
The tool allows for easy scaling of virtual users and provides detailed reporting capabilities, making it valuable for enterprise-level testing and performance evaluation.
Integration with third-party tools like Dynatrace and Splunk enhances its monitoring capabilities, offering quick setup for comprehensive performance analysis.
Users appreciate the versatility and flexibility in the testing environment, allowing for efficient load, stress, and automation testing across various scenarios.
The detailed analytics and reporting features provide significant insights, ensuring robust test coverage and performance evaluation, resulting in measurable returns on investment.

CONS

OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) has high costs, often driving users towards more affordable open-source alternatives.
Technical support is reportedly uncoordinated and has degraded compared to when the product was under HP's ownership.
There are challenges with integrations, notably with cloud-based load generators and third-party products.
Resource optimization is necessary, particularly for the TruClient protocol which consumes excessive memory.
Users experience various installation issues, requiring frequent reinstallation attempts and adjustments across different machines.
 

OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) Pros review quotes

it_user471411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Performance Engineering at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Nov 4, 2016
We have Performance Center as a platform to share with others that don't do performance testing full-time, so that they in an agile fashion, on demand can go ahead and get real issue-finding testing done.
it_user487383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 28, 2016
​Probably its prime advantage, it provides a centralized location for testing.
it_user671391 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
It allows you to work out how well you are doing project-wise because you see the number of scripts done, the number of tests run, and whether you have mapped all your requirements to it.
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it_user671403 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
With Performance Center, the version upgrade is easy. You just have to roll out the new patch or the new version.
it_user739554 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Presales Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Sep 19, 2017
You can test a huge variety of applications, not just web-based systems, but SAP, Oracle, web services, pretty much anything out in the market place, but it's mobile-based testing.
it_user739569 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance lead at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 19, 2017
It's a very powerful tool.
Managereb4c - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Sep 19, 2017
The fact that you can have tens of thousands of virtual users and just expand an army of load generators to hammer on whatever application you're testing.
it_user671514 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 7, 2018
Support is nice, quick, and responsive.
it_user854211 - PeerSpot reviewer
TE at Infosys Technologies Ltd
Apr 11, 2018
It is mostly user-friendly and usable.
it_user871803 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Tester at Tech Mahindra
May 13, 2018
We are delivering fine performance results and performance recommendations using Performance Center.
 

OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) Cons review quotes

it_user471411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Performance Engineering at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Nov 4, 2016
I know there are integrations with continuous testing. It's got tie-ins to some of the newer tools to allow continuous testing. I'd love to see us not have to customize it, but for it to be out of the box.
it_user487383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 28, 2016
On the newer versions, I think the bleeding edge is still being worked on.
it_user671391 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
The worst thing about it is it did not have zero footprint on your PC.
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it_user671403 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
For such an experienced team as mine, who have been with the product for over ten years, sometimes working with technical support is not that easy.
it_user739554 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Presales Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Sep 19, 2017
Canned reports are always a challenge and a question with customers because customers want to see sexy reports.
it_user739569 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance lead at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 19, 2017
I think better or more integration with some of the monitoring tools that we're considering.
Managereb4c - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Sep 19, 2017
I think better support for cloud-based load generators would help. For example, integrate with Amazon AWS so you can quickly spin up a load generator in the cloud, use it, spin it down.
it_user671514 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 7, 2018
New features have been added in latest version and need to be improved with the DevOps integration.
it_user854211 - PeerSpot reviewer
TE at Infosys Technologies Ltd
Apr 11, 2018
It is tough to maintain from the infrastructure side.
it_user871803 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Tester at Tech Mahindra
May 13, 2018
More real-time monitoring should be available for the system under test.

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