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IMPROVING PERFORMANCE TESTING OF SAP AND NON-SAP SOLUTIONS

OPTIMIZE QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, AND SCALABILITY

SAP LoadRunner Application by HP

To help you deliver high-performing business processes and execute, upgrade, and modify existing processes on time and within budget, SAP and the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) offer the SAP LoadRunner application by HP. SAP LoadRunner makes it possible to optimize quality, performance, and scalability of end-to-end business processes that run on SAP and non-SAP software.

addition to 7 global support centers, 9 custom development centers, and comprehensive 24x7 support. To meet the needs of SAP customers, SAP has created a global consulting unit to help customers understand, assess, and implement best practices related to testing during solution implementations, upgrades, and continuous improvements.

The testing solution group of SAP Consulting has classified the range of testing services into six categories: Testing strategy and assessments services: Knowledge transfer of With SAP LoadRunner, you can mitigate testing approaches, methodologies, risks related to SAP implementations and automation tools, including and upgrades as well as changes in assessments to determine road maps your production systems. Deployed in conjunction with the SAP Solution for improvement in quality of testing Manager application management and reduction in total cost of testing solution, SAP LoadRunner can help you Test analysis and proof-of-concept optimize the entire application lifecycle, services: Implementation of proof-ofso you can: concept projects to demonstrate how Implement, upgrade, and go live with testing automation solutions could be SAP solutions on time and on budget used within a customers environment Enhance application quality and reliand organizational structure ability in highly customized and rapidly Functional testing services: Help changing heterogeneous for customers to set up and better environments manage functional testing within their Improve performance and scalability organization of business processes that depend Performance testing services: Help on SAP and non-SAP software for customers to set up and better manage performance testing within SAP Consulting their organization Testing environment management With more than 35 years of experience, services: Help for customers to set SAP supports more than 86,000 up a best-run testing organization with customers worldwide, with 140,000 appropriate tools installations in 120 countries. SAP has Test project management services: over 12,000 consulting and education SAP oversight and execution of employees ready to assist you, in day-to-day testing for customers

SAP LoadRunner makes it possible to optimize quality, performance, and scalability of end-to-end business processes that run on SAP and non-SAP software.

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Performance Testing Services

The following two services are uniquely designed to help customers improve their performance testing. Testing Strategy Assessment The testing strategy assessment is designed to identify organizational approaches that provide suggestions for the following: Reducing the cost associated with developing and maintaining manual and automated test artifacts Deploying test accelerators into a customer environment Managing quality throughout the lifecycle Planning for adequate testing procedures like infrastructure and resources With the testing strategy assessment, customers have a clear road map, including timelines and costs for improvement in testing processes, quality, and organizational changes. Duration: Two to four weeks Setup and Management of Performance Testing Service Automated performance/load testing can mitigate performance risks, accelerate application delivery, and optimize business agility. Validating the performance of the application

during each stage of the project lifecycle and isolating problems in the application before deployment can help assure that customer end-user expectations are met. During the setup

SAP has created a global consulting unit to help customers understand, assess, and implement best practices related to testing during solution implementations, upgrades, and continuous improvements.
and management of performance testing service, SAP LoadRunner will be installed and the configuration of SAP diagnostics will be completed. The SAP team will automate the agreed-upon number of test scripts. As part of the service, two customer employees will be mentored on performance automation. Duration: Five to nine weeks
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The SAP LoadRunner application was a critical piece of our performance and load testing effort, which ultimately enabled us to deliver on time and with appropriate performance and scalability.
John Flagler, IT Architecture Director, Hallmark Cards Inc.