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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Meraki Insight

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ACisco Meraki Insight is a network analytics tool that supports troubleshooting, and helps IT administrators optimize the end user experience, so as to significantly reduce the time it takes to isolate network or application problems.N/A

    LoadRunner Professional

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AA solution simplifies performance load testing for colocated teams. With project-based capabilities, so teams can quickly identify abnormal application behavior.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Meraki InsightLoadRunner Professional
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Meraki InsightLoadRunner Professional
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Cisco Meraki InsightLoadRunner Professional
    Load Testing
    Comparison of Load Testing features of Cisco Meraki Insight and OpenText LoadRunner Professional
    Feature
    Cisco Meraki Insight
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText LoadRunner Professional
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    1% below category average
    End to end performance management00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Integrated performance data00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Real time monitoring00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Automated anomaly detection00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Meraki InsightLoadRunner Professional
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Meraki InsightLoadRunner Professional
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Within healthcare, services, or manufacturing organizations the Cisco Meraki systems have performed remarkably well. The security standpoint of Cisco aligned equipment needs no additional mentioning other than they are the top choice for Federal, State, and Local governments as well as a plethora of organizations from different market areas.
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    OpenText
    Micro Focus LoadRunner and its suite of tools, specifically VuGen works wonderfully for us for all web, http/https and web service calls. We've been able to build tests for near any scenario we need with relative ease. As long as we have crafted up requirements for our scenarios / scripts to managed scope, we've had high success working with scripting and data driving. Our main tests are web service calls - typically chained together to form a full scenario with transactions measuring the journey or a similar (measure along the way) journey through a browser. For web services we will use VuGen and browser we've shifted to Tru Client I have had little-to-no experience scripting against a thick client where a ui-driven test would be required. I know its possible but quite costly due to the need to run the actual desktop client to drive tests. We've been fortunate enough to leverage http calls to represent client traffic.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Configuration options.
    • Easy to use Dashboard.
    • Reporting
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    OpenText
    • It can simulate multiple users at the same time and help understand the performance.
    • It can generate excellent reports and give insights into application performance.
    • It is a fast tool and does not take time to perform its functions.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Expensive maintenance fee.
    • Expensive equipment.
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    OpenText
    • HP LoadRunner with new patches and releases sometimes makes no longer support older version of various protocols like Citrix, which makes the task time-consuming when using older versions of LoadRunner for some of the cases. So it should support older version as well while upgrading.
    • Configuring HP LoadRunner over the firewall involves lots of configuration and may be troublesome. So, there should be a script (power shell script for Windows or shell script for Linux users) to make it easy to use and with less pain.
    • I would like to see the RunTime Viewer of Vugen in HPLoadRunner based on the browser I selected in the run-time configuration to make it feel more realistic as a real user.
    • Licensing cost is very high when we need to perform a test on application for a specific group of users.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
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    OpenText
    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
    Cisco
    Cisco Meraki has made the world of management so much easier, allowing IT Administrators and Business Management personnel to enjoy more time on the business needs and less time managing equipment.
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    OpenText
    HP performance center stacks up very well for front end applications. Need more improvements for API performance testing.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    Just about every department we've been asked to provide access to has been able to utilize this system. Be it from a CCTV perspective or for environment reporting, Cisco Meraki Insight can fit into this situation with ease, and without a great deal of training, our users found the system very intuitive.
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    OpenText
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • The ease of use saved us many hours of billable time.
    • Support added lots of value.
    • Licensing and equipment cost really put a damper on overall value (being so high).
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    OpenText
    • The scripts created with traditional web/http protocol are not robust thus re-scripting is required after most every code drop. Troubleshooting and fixing the issue takes more time therefore in most cases we do re-scripting to keep it simple and save time.
    • In ideal world you would rather spend more time doing testing than scripting in that case mostly you could use an Ajax TruClient protocol. This type of script will only fail when an object in the application is removed or changed completely. This way of scripting will save you more time and helps you maintain the scripts with less re-work effort on a release basis. On the long run you will have a better ROI when you use Ajax TruClient protocol for scripting.
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