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Performance Validation & Optimization
Introduction:
OPTEC’s Performance Validation &
Optimization (PVO) services unify Mercury’s performance
testing suite and
hundreds of successful client engagements. PVO ensures
the scalability and performance of enterprise systems
and applications. As applications grow in size and
functionality, so do the performance needs and
expectations for the end-user. Gone are the days where
poor application performance only impacted internal
resources. Customer facing applications, real-time
business management applications, and near-live
solutions systems have become the standard. As entire
industries place their critical and sometimes only
revenue-interfaces online, enterprise applications are
serving more users than ever. Performance validation and
optimization are more critical than ever.
OPTEC’s
PVO offering is a systematic approach to benchmark,
test, and tune an application for the best end user
performance. The standard cure for performance has been
to add hardware or “throw money at the problem”, but the
PVO approach advocates true performance ROI, maximizing
the efficiency across all levels. From business
processes to application code, server hardware to team
organization, all factors for application performance
are optimized.
Strategically, PVO provides the business with forecasts
of performance, capacity, and volume, critical
information to plan the procurement and decommissioning
of expensive licenses, software, and hardware. This
strategic visibility is provided in easy to read
dashboards, providing one-metric answers to business
questions. The enterprise can effectively mitigate their
tactical day-to-day risks, and strategically plan for
their future needs.
At the
heart of PVO lay the industry-leading Mercury
performance solutions, of which OPTEC boasts an
impressive 100% certification rate of our consultants*
(consultants over 3 months with the firm). These
applications include the following from Mercury’s suite:
While
application specific methodologies can provide
significant value and cost-savings to the client,
OPTEC’s PVO methodology remains application agnostic,
thus testing your open-source driven web site, or the
newly upgrade email system is covered by our
methodology. As every customers needs are different,
OPTEC has ensured that our methodologies can adapt.
OPTEC’s
documentation and training best practices ensure that
the knowledge and lessons learned from each engagement
stay with the client, and client shadowing is encouraged
and welcomed on every project. In addition to hands-on
training, OPTEC also offers intensive tool or
application specific training, designed to compliment
the Mercury training courses.
Approach:
OPTEC’s Methodology
provides a well-defined approach for performance
testing. From phase-to-phase, milestone-to-milestone,
each step has been clearly defined. Not only does this
benefit our consultants, but it provides our customers
with visibility into the process and progress of every
engagement.
Result:
The
methodology, process, and technology are meaningless
without results, and OPTEC has a proven track record of
success. Here are some of the key results that we strive
for in our engagements:
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Increase the capacity of existing hardware
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Decrease transaction times
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Validate the disaster recovery scenarios
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Ensure the software and hardware is stable under load
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Establish enterprise benchmarks and thresholds that
can be monitored and trended
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Project future growth and procurement needs
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Mitigate the risk involved with every production
deployment
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