When deploying a new application system, it’s important to know whether it will meet the performance needs of the business and will be able to scale with the demands of users and the growth of the business. You also need to assert and manage user service-level agreements (SLA’s) based on known application response-times.

The Layer47 Benchmark & Baseline service provides this information using a fast, accurate and reliable method of testing and analysing the performance of an end-to-end application and its supporting network infrastructure.

The service uses a unique combination of Application Profiling and Load-Testing analysis techniques to achieve a greater level of understanding around application and system performance and scalability. It also dramatically accelerates the test programme by reducing the complexity of the test scenarios.  In other words, we can achieve a lot more in less time – and help control project costs.

The Layer47 Benchmark & Baseline service can be applied to almost any application, regardless of client type or database technology.

Deliverables

The Layer47 Benchmark & Baseline service delivers the following value to any application system deployment project:

Documented performance baseline of key business transactions, including transaction response-times, end-to-end network traffic flow, and client-server response-time analysis.

Documented identification of end-to-end system performance bottlenecks or “hot-spots” to assist in post-deployment performance monitoring & event management.

Load and stress-test profile of the application and its supporting client-server network infrastructure.

System efficiency analysis to assess how system performance and scalability can be further improved.

Interpretation of test results to understand how best to manage end-user performance when the system is deployed into production, and how to manage known performance/scalability issues.

Costs & Timescales

A typical 2 or 3-tier TCP-IP based application consisting of 10 selected key business transactions, can be performance profiled and load-tested with just three days of on-site data capture and testing, and a report containing full results data, conclusions and recommendations delivered within 4-7 working days*.

The cost for this service starts at £5500.

*Price dependent on final number of transactions to be profiled, and the depth and complexity of analysis required.