introduction for LR

Are your IT systems expected to support thousands of users across multiple application environments with a complicated mix of homegrown and third-party components?

Does your organization have to deliver 99.9 percent uptime and availability in the face of both unpredictable user loads and a never-ending stream of product patches and upgrades?

Does your IT organization adequately stress test applications for system, user, and network scalability before deployment to ensure no performance surprises?

Mercury LoadRunner™ is the industry-standard performance and load testing product for predicting system behavior. and performance. Using limited hardware resources, LoadRunner emulates hundreds or thousands of concurrent users to put the application through the rigors of real-life user loads. Your IT group can stress an application from end-to-end and measure the response times of key business processes. Simultaneously, LoadRunner collects system and component-level performance information through a comprehensive array of system monitors and diagnostics modules. These metrics are combined into a sophisticated analysis module that allows teams to drill down to isolate bottlenecks within the architecture.

LoadRunner supports a wide range of enterprise environments, including Web Services, J2EE, and .NET. It is the only performance scalability testing product customized and certified to work with ERP/CRM applications from PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, and Siebel.

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.