Discover how SAP LoadRunner by HPE lets you verify that your application architecture is built for performance and reliability. This helps ensure fewer network-related issues in your production system and boosts performance where processes hit snags.

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SAP Solution Extensions
SAP LoadRunner by HP
Analyze, Validate, and
Optimize Business
Application Performance
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Objectives
Test performance throughout
the application lifecycle
Given the pace of business today, it’s essential that your increasingly complex
mission-critical applications operate at peak performance and scale to meet
changing requirements.The challenge is accurately predicting system behavior
and performance under realistic stress conditions and quickly identifying
the root causes of poor performance, down to the individual process.
Do you know if your mission-critical applications
meet current performance and scalability
requirements? Can you proactively increase
the probability of success when deploying to
production? Are your applications performing
optimally?
The SAP® LoadRunner application by HP helps
you verify that your application’s architecture
is built for performance and reliability. Used by
thousands of businesses worldwide, it enables
you to test both physical and virtual architec-
tures quickly and efficiently for any workload
level.You can test a broad range of applications,
including those running on the SAP HANA®
platform, by running high-scale tests using
minimal hardware. And if performance bottle-
necks are detected, you can identify and fix
root causes and verify performance improve-
ments before going live. It’s never been easier
to benchmark production system performance,
retest changes, and go live with confidence.
Test performance throughout
the application lifecycle
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Replicate processes and run
real-life workloads
With SAP LoadRunner, you can reproduce any
number of business processes performed by
a typical user of your software. To minimize
scripting time, the software provides an easy-
to-use scripting and debugging engine that
even nontechnical or novice testers can use.
The result is faster, more efficient scripting that
significantly reduces test cycle time and frees
up technical resources to focus on higher-level
tasks, such as analysis.
Once scripts are developed, you can create
virtual users for specific processes, expand-
ing user loads to hundreds or thousands of
concurrent virtual users – whatever will real-
istically test application performance during
typical and peak workloads. Regardless of the
workload, testing requires minimal time, effort,
and hardware, allowing you to test earlier in
the application lifecycle – and fix defects when
they are inexpensive to address.
You can determine the best hardware
and software configurations to use
based on the operations of specific
business processes.
Replicate processes and run
real-life workloads
Analyze performance data to
identify and diagnose problems
Evaluate, modify, and retest for
performance improvements
Optimize the entire testing lifecycle
Choose the version that best meets
your needs
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SAP LoadRunner supports performance testing
for a wide range of application environments
and protocols, including SAP HANA, Web and
mobile, Web service, and legacy technologies.
In addition, the software supports testing of
applications on all platforms running in the
cloud or on premise, on bare-metal or virtual
machines, or in a hybrid environment. It
enables you to seamlessly leverage public
cloud infrastructure to deploy load generators
to scale up and out securely based on your
performance testing needs – all without com-
plicated network configuration.
Run accurate workloads – including peak loads –
to pinpoint end-user, system-level, and code-level
bottlenecks rapidly and easily.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Replicate processes and run
real-life workloads
Analyze performance data to
identify and diagnose problems
Evaluate, modify, and retest for
performance improvements
Optimize the entire testing lifecycle
Choose the version that best meets
your needs

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Analyze performance data to
identify and diagnose problems
As the software models and drives load against
the system,it captures end-user response times
for business processes and transactions.
For example:
•• Real-time performance monitors capture
performance data from every component of
the application infrastructure. By integrating
with HP SiteScope, SAP LoadRunner can
provide more than 60 nonintrusive, real-time
monitors to measure the impact of load
testing on every component of an application.
•• Diagnostic functions collect application-layer
and code-level performance and provide tools
for drilling down into application-level issues.
For example, using deep diagnostics, you can
drill down into Java EE, Microsoft .NET, SAP,
Oracle, and service-oriented-architecture-
based applications to find the root causes of
problems across heterogeneous application
stacks.
After testing is complete, an analysis engine
provides a single view of end-user response
time and infrastructure-level and code-level
performance. Autocorrelation and analytics
engines help you identify the most likely causes
of performance issues, and built-in, bubble-up
analysis helps you quickly determine which
transactions passed or failed service-level
objectives and potential causes of failure.
Using the software’s strong analysis engine,
you can also slice and dice data to further
pinpoint the root causes of problems.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Replicate processes and run
real-life workloads
Analyze performance data to
identify and diagnose problems
Evaluate, modify, and retest for
performance improvements
Optimize the entire testing lifecycle
Choose the version that best meets
your needs

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Evaluate, modify, and retest for
performance improvements
SAP LoadRunner automatically measures sim-
ulated performance against key performance
indicators, establishes benchmarks, and rec-
ommends changes related to the enterprise
software that’s being tested. Once changes
are made, tests are run again to validate the
effectiveness of the proposed changes.
Equally important, based on the results of
retests, you can establish intelligent service-
level agreements (SLAs) based on facts, not
educated guesses. In the event that users
experience a performance issue, you can
quickly run accurate tests to verify that perfor-
mance meets agreed-upon levels – or find and
fix root causes of a problem.You will also have
the opportunity to make changes recommended
by the system.
Flexible templates make it easy to generate
custom reports for stakeholders. Customized
templates can be applied to other performance
tests, as needed.
Use test results and analyses to optimize the
performance of applications running on SAP HANA.
Gain key insights to make the most of the platform.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Replicate processes and run
real-life workloads
Analyze performance data to
identify and diagnose problems
Evaluate, modify, and retest for
performance improvements
Optimize the entire testing lifecycle
Choose the version that best meets
your needs

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Optimize the entire testing lifecycle
SAP LoadRunner supports performance test-
ing throughout the entire application lifecycle.
For example, SAP LoadRunner integrates
with the leading development environments
Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse. This
allows developers to run unit tests using SAP
LoadRunner.To facilitate intelligent release
decisions, SAP LoadRunner is integrated with
quality and security software such as the SAP
Quality Center application by HP and SAP
Fortify software by HP.Together, the applica-
tions create a comprehensive solution for
managing release risk – and enable you to
make informed decisions prior to going live.
Complete integration with SAP Quality Center
– specifically, the unified functional testing
module – helps bridge the functional testing
gap and eliminate the risk caused by external
dependencies on component services. And
during the transition from prerelease to
production, you can use scripts from SAP
LoadRunner to monitor application perfor-
mance, availability, and service levels in
production under real-user workloads.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Replicate processes and run
real-life workloads
Analyze performance data to
identify and diagnose problems
Evaluate, modify, and retest for
performance improvements
Optimize the entire testing lifecycle
Choose the version that best meets
your needs
Now you can run performance tests with ease at
any stage of the application lifecycle – even in
high-performance environments like SAP HANA.

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Choose the version that best meets
your needs
Choose from two versions:
•• The standard edition of SAP LoadRunner,
which is designed for business units or
departments working on one project at a
time in a single geographic location
•• SAP LoadRunner, performance center
edition, which is designed for multiproject,
enterprise-wide performance testing, collab-
oration, and validation
Choose the performance center edition when
your stakeholders need to share assets from
one project to another, want performance-
trending information across multiple tests,
need to compare performance against global
service-level agreements, or require a program-
based, aggregated view of test results. The
performance center edition, which includes all
of the standard features of SAP LoadRunner,
extends that functionality to take performance
testing to a global enterprise level. For example,
it allows you to:
•• Collaborate for effective, realistic perfor-
mance testing in less time
•• Centralize testing to streamline resource
and license usage
•• Gain greater visibility using a testing center
of excellence approach
•• Optimize administration and management
for continuous testing
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Replicate processes and run
real-life workloads
Analyze performance data to
identify and diagnose problems
Evaluate, modify, and retest for
performance improvements
Optimize the entire testing lifecycle
Choose the version that best meets
your needs

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Deploy with confidence
With SAP LoadRunner, you can test perfor-
mance quickly and easily at any point, gain
insights into root causes, address them, and
then retest – the keys to deploying new soft-
ware or changes with confidence. Now you can:
•• Increase efficiency and cut development
costs by rigorously testing applications
before going live
•• Help your business adapt more quickly
and easily to changing business processes
by reducing slowdowns in application
development
•• Reduce the risk of software failure at times
of peak demand by consistently performing
thorough, efficient load modeling, testing,
and validation
•• Help ensure preparedness for SAP HANA by
benchmarking and optimizing the current
performance of enterprise applications
selected to run in the high-performance
environment – and then, after the move,
comparing performance results to identify
potential errors in migrated data
•• Accelerate the planning and delivery of the
newest classes of service-driven business
processes
•• Create a centralized performance testing
center of excellence
Deploy with confidence
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Generate real-life loads. Identify and diagnose
problems. Deploy with confidence.

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Summary
To support dynamic processes and changing
user demand, enterprise applications must run
optimally. With the SAP® LoadRunner applica-
tion by HP,you can quickly validate performance
with thorough load testing. Use it to simulate
and run accurate workloads, benchmark pro-
duction system performance, diagnose prob-
lems, and retest performance before going
live with new or modified functionality on the
SAP HANA® platform and other environments.
Objectives
•• Benchmark performance of production
software
•• Help ensure a successful deployment on
SAP HANA
•• Accurately predict scalability and capacity
•• Establish intelligent service-level agreements
•• Shorten test cycles
•• Pinpoint bottlenecks
•• Find and fix defects earlier
Solution
•• Business process definitions to evaluate
operations and determine optimal hard-
ware and software platforms
•• Diagnostics to identify root causes of
performance issues
•• Fast scripting to simulate and expand user
loads
•• Tools to measure simulated performance
against key performance indicators
•• Tools to retest and validate software fixes
Benefits
•• Increase efficiency and cut development
costs
•• Adapt to changing business processes
•• Reduce risks during peak demand
•• Prepare for deployment of SAP HANA
•• Speed planning and delivery of new,
service-driven processes
Learn more
To find out more, call your SAP representative
today or visit us online at
www.sap.com/loadrunner.
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