IBM OMEGAMON vs. OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM OMEGAMON
Score 7.4 out of 10
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The IBM OMEGAMON product family for IBM Z mainframe and middleware subsystems presents a mainframe monitoring solution, a suite of products used to monitor and manage sophisticated mainframe applications and environments. The OMEGAMON products share a common technology, Tivoli® Management Services on z/OS®.N/A
LoadRunner Professional
Score 8.9 out of 10
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A solution simplifies performance load testing for colocated teams. With project-based capabilities, so teams can quickly identify abnormal application behavior.N/A
Pricing
IBM OMEGAMONOpenText LoadRunner Professional
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Offerings
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IBM OMEGAMONLoadRunner Professional
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
IBM OMEGAMONOpenText LoadRunner Professional
Load Testing
Comparison of Load Testing features of Product A and Product B
IBM OMEGAMON
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Ratings
OpenText LoadRunner Professional
8.4
Ratings
0% below category average
End to end performance management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Integrated performance data00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Real time monitoring00 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Automated anomaly detection00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
User Ratings
IBM OMEGAMONOpenText LoadRunner Professional
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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9.0
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Support Rating
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3.0
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User Testimonials
IBM OMEGAMONOpenText LoadRunner Professional
Likelihood to Recommend
Certainly, the tool is useful for debugging applications and for real-time monitoring. It's a bit less useful, not to say useless when applications are client servers. We have used it heavily above all to optimize the DB/2 applications. We managed to reduce the need for additional MIPS year by year.
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Micro Focus LoadRunner is good for scripting and running a load test, but should be providing better customer service in case of user facing any issues.
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Pros
  • reliability
  • strength
  • effectiveness
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  • Support of multiple protocols like HTTP, RDP, Citrix, SAP, Oracle Database 12c, AJAX Tru Client, SOAP-based calls and others which is why it is used widely in our organization as we are using various applications in an industry for different usage.
  • Supporting the mobile agents which means it is not only used for web applications but also for mobile applications.
  • Latest version of HP LoadRunner makes the scripting easy by replacing dynamic changes in the script using correlation parameters. This means less coding and we can focus on major issues if needed.
  • Controller enhancements by specifying the cloud provider like Digital Ocean. We can provision our load generators with Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean and others.
  • Analysis provides a nice HTML report on the test executed with all the necessary metrics. We can simply put more analysis if needed and it will be automatically embedded in an HTML report.
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Cons
  • it itself consumes cpu
  • the interface is not user-friendly
  • every release migration is a surprise
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  • Monitoring tools like SiteScope, AppDynamics should be used apart from HP Performance Center. Would be great if the tool can give good monitoring on app and db servers.
  • As the load goes high, the cost increases. In the open source world, it's not a bad idea to consider the licensing cost.
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Support Rating
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Customer service is not that great. It's difficult to get hold of someone if an issue is supposed to be addressed on an urgent basis. No online chat service readily available.
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Alternatives Considered
Naturally, during the software selection, other tools from other similar vendors were compared as functionalities. more benchmarks have been made to control the Omegamon overhead on applications. certainly, it has influenced the fact that the mainframe base software is IBM and Omegamon is IBM so the compatibility problems are automatically solved.
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Micro Focus LoadRunner fit well into our portfolio of tools with its long track record, ability to test near any application technology we adopt and allow for a single / cohesive toolset to drive our performance testing needs.
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Return on Investment
  • the baseline of mips under control
  • mic invoice flat
  • immediately resolve problems
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  • It has a positive impact as we know how PE testing is (performance).
  • It helps with integrating data from various data streams and includes anomaly testing.
  • It does a good job with the accuracy of results. The results are very accurate.
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