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Newark, New Jersey - April 09, 2003
OpenDemand Systems officially unveiled OpenLoad™ V3.5, the industry’s first easy-to-use, browser-based, rapid performance optimization solution for load and stress testing of dynamic websites, at IBM developerWorks Live! conference. The feature rich product touts ease-of-use, superior analysis and affordability, offering application development and testing teams the ability to easily perform fast and productive optimization of dynamic Web sites without the need to develop complex scripts or perform complicated performance analysis.
OpenLoad™ V3.5 is powered by the most widely used middleware, database and hardware platforms on the market today— IBM WebSphere* Internet infrastructure software, IBM DB2* Universal Database and IBM eServer* xSeries** system. The combined power and scalability of these offerings enables IBM and OpenDemand to deliver unmatched ease-of-use, accuracy and scalability from a single integrated development and test environment.
"IBM WebSphere provides a highly integrated application development and deployment environment optimized for enabling on-demand businesses," said Bob Sutor, Director, WebSphere Infrastructure Software, IBM. "IBM is committed to providing the best solutions for our customers. Working with companies like OpenDemand, customer IT teams can ensure their applications meet rigorous demands for performance and deliver high Quality of Service."
“OpenLoad™ provides us with a fully customizable solution for web-based application testing,” said Brian LeGros, Web Applications Manager at Foreign Currency Exchange Corporation. “We operate using frameworks and environments where our focus is not necessarily what pages are requested, but the complex queries made by our customers to our solution. OpenLoad™ gives us the ability, in a simple and scalable way, to concentrate on our specialized test cases, rather than the setup and details of the testing solution. When it is needed, OpenDemand’s customer support team is one of the most available with which we’ve ever dealt. OpenDemand does what it does well. With the backing of IBM, we are confident in our selection of the OpenLoad™ product and its potential.”
Donald Doane, President and CEO of OpenDemand Systems, emphasized the fact that customers have come to expect dial tone-like reliability from their Web applications and that in today’s challenging economic environment, no company can afford to waste time and money deploying web applications that won’t perform to meet customer expectations. According to Doane, the challenge is that while performance testing and tuning is absolutely critical to the successful deployment of any Web application, it is also largely perceived to be costly, time consuming and difficult. Doane said that OpenLoad™ V3.5 was designed to help organizations of any size to effectively overcome these challenges and rapidly deploy Portal, CRM, SCM, ERP, e-Business and e-Learning solutions with confidence.
“The only way to guarantee peak application performance despite unpredictable user volumes, disparate underlying technologies and intense time-to-market pressures is to test them every step of the way,” said Doane. “However, until OpenLoad™ V3.5, that task was an expensive and difficult undertaking; particularly for developers who are already overwhelmed with just trying to get features implemented and out the door. Now, with our new product, developers and testers alike can easily optimize application performance,” continued Doane. “Simply put, this product will enable the industry as a whole to operate more efficiently, cost-effectively and proactively.”
Randolph W. Pinna, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Foreign Currency Exchange Corporation noted that after a thorough research of OpenDemand and its web testing product, Foreign Currency Exchange Corporation’s IT department and CFO both concluded that the OpenDemand product offered the highest level of testing while being the easiest to customize; all for a price that beat its competitors.
“The training and support we received has led Foreign Currency Exchange Corporation to be proud of its relationship with OpenDemand”, said Pinna.
OpenDemand’s latest offering is the first testing solution to provide script-free Rapid Application Recording (RAR™) technology, which enables users to effortlessly build data driven user scenarios in seconds and adds full support for pages with complex JavaScript, Java applets, Flash, DHTML, NTLM authentication, .Net WebForms and more. All without the need for continuous scripting, debugging and maintenance rework.
The new reporting interface simplifies performance analysis and allows for more efficient isolation of bottlenecks at the HTTP, application and database server level by introducing a new Root-Cause Analyzer, which takes all of the guess work and complexity out of identifying performance optimization opportunities. The Root-Cause Analyzer automatically correlates user, application and server side metrics into a single unified reporting view that is categorized by application performance, availability, reliability, scalability and capacity.
OpenLoad™ V3.5 sets new standards in accuracy of real-world user simulation by leveraging the same tried and proven Web technology that powers the majority of business applications on the Web—IBM WebSphere. The latest version of the product also provides more extensive configuration of virtual user behavior allowing more refined control over page timeouts, think times, browsers, platforms, connection speeds, cookies, cache settings, SSL, page retries, user scenario iterations, virtual user ramping and synchronization, and more.
New automatic integrity checks enable users to verify expected functional behavior, while pinpointing performance bottlenecks. Integrity checks include Regular Expression pattern matching of response data and content size verification to ensure applications are actually returning proper page content under load.
OpenLoad™ V3.5 raises the bar in scalability by leveraging the combined power and performance of IBM WebSphere and DB2 to generate more virtual users per machine than any other stress testing tool in the market. Each Virtual User footprint is less than 150KB, which enables greater load generation on existing hardware infrastructure. The significant cost savings on infrastructure can fund optimization at higher user loads.
OpenDemand’s new release also provides multi-platform support, allowing OpenLoad™ to be run on the most popular version of Windows, Linux and Unix, and users to leverage the same scripts across multiple environments without any loss of functionality. Platforms currently supported include Windows® NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows XP Professional, Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Sun Solaris 8.
OpenLoad™ V3.5 is now available as three new offerings:
OpenLoad™ Express is an entry level solution that is affordably priced for application developers and testers optimizing applications with small to medium size workloads. Pricing starts at $3,500 per seat.
OpenLoad™ Advanced is an enterprise solution designed for application development and testing teams optimizing applications with large workloads in multi-tier environments. Pricing starts at $37,500 and includes multi-user licensing.
OpenLoad™ On Demand is a hosted solution designed for pay-as-you-go or subscription-based testing from outside the firewall. Pricing starts at $1,750.00 per week of testing.
About OpenDemand
OpenDemand Systems was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. For more information on how OpenDemand can help your company maximize IT potential, visit www.opendemand.com or contact us at 973-735-0547x2.
About OpenLoad
About Foreign Currency Exchange Corp.
** The IBM e-business logo, xSeries, iSeries and zSeries are all trademarks of IBM Corporation. All others are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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