Optimizing BEA WebLogic Applications

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Optimizing BEA WebLogic Applications
Proven Best Practices For Optimizing BEA
Deployments
Tamir RoterDirector, Emerging Europetamir_at_mercur
y.co.il
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Todays IT Reality
of capital expenditures are spent on IT US Dept
of Commerce
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of IT projects are delivered late Aberdeen
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of IT projects are delivered over budget Gartner
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of IT projects fail to meet objectives Gartner
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of IT projects are cancelled prior to completion
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Mercurys BTO Offering
BUSINESS VALUE
Demand
Applications
Are we working on the right things and working
efficiently?
IT GOVERNANCE
BTO WORKFLOW
Are we delivering optimized applications that
meet service levels?
APPLICATIONDELIVERY
APPLICATION MANAGEMENT
APPLICATIONDEVELOPMENTPARTNERS
INFRASTRUCTURE
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Mercurys BTO Product Portfolio
BUSINESS VALUE
IT GOVERNANCE
GOVERNANCE CENTER
Governance Dashboard
Governance Foundation
Change Mgmt
Financial Mgmt
Time Mgmt
Resource Mgmt
Project Mgmt
Program Mgmt
Portfolio Mgmt
Demand Mgmt
BTO WORKFLOW
APPLICATIONDELIVERY
APPLICATION MANAGEMENT
APPLICATIONDEVELOPMENTPARTNERS
PERFORMANCE CENTER
APPLICATIONRESOLUTION CENTER
QUALITY CENTER
BUSINESS AVAILABILITY CENTER
BUSINESS AVAILABILITY CENTER
RESOLUTION CENTER
Topaz Service Level Mgmt Topaz Customer
Impact Topaz Business Process and End-User Mgmt
Topaz Auto RCA Application Diagnostics Future
new applications
QuickTest Pro WinRunner TestDirector Business
Process Testing
Topaz Auto RCA Application Diagnostics Future
new applications
Topaz Service Level Mgmt Topaz Customer
Impact Topaz Business Process and End-User Mgmt
LoadRunner LoadRunner TestCenter Tuning Diagnosti
cs Capacity Planning
App Delivery Dashboard
App Delivery Dashboard
App Management Dashboard (TBA)
App Management Dashboard (TBA)
App Management Dashboard (TBA)
App ManagementFoundation
App ManagementFoundation
App Delivery Foundation
App Delivery Foundation
App ManagementFoundation
App ManagementFoundation
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Mercurys Momentum

• Superb Financial
• Performance
• Top 15 enterprise software company
• Top 5 fastest growing
• 1.2B cash
• 500m revenue run rate
• Customer Success
• 75 of Global2000
• 55 Distributed ASQMarket Share
• Triple Winner of SAP Members Choice
• Three time SSPA Service Award Winner

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Optimized approach to deployment
Functional andRegressionTesting
Pre-deployment
Test Planning
Load Testing
On-going Analysis
RequirementsManagement
Application Development
Production Tuning
DefectManagement
Root Cause Diagnosis
Performance Monitoring
Real-timeAlerts
Post-deployment
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Strategic Alliance

• Mercury selected by BEA as a 3 Star Strategic
  Partner
• Only enterprise testing vendor
• Mercury solutions used by BEA
• Engineering, Professional Services Proof Of
  Concept Centers
• Strong technical integrations
• Support for HTTP, TUXEDO, Jolt, RMI CORBA
  protocols
• Integrated performance monitors for WebLogic
  Tuxedo

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Joint Mercury/BEA Customers
And many more...
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BEA Servers Are Key Components in Todays Web
Systems

• BEA based architectures have many moving parts
• Comprised of many technologies, vendors,
  protocols, h/w, s/w
• Mercury Interactive solutions can test them all

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J2EE A Chaotic New World
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The First Application Delivery and Management
Suite for J2EE
Mercury for J2EE

• Start With Business Process
• Correlate Visibility From App. Perf. to Business
  Impact
• Accelerated Problem Resolution
• Manage Entire J2EE Ecosystem
• Leverage Across Lifecycle

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Mercury for J2EE
DELIVERY
MANAGEMENT
Shared Scripts, J2EE Probe Technology
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Key Concerns

• How to reduce time and resources needed for
  application roll out?
• How to insure business process quality?
• How to avoid performance surprises in production?
  
• How to eliminate all potential performance
  problems in advance of any business impact?
• How to ensure I have enough capacity in my
  environment for my application?

Application Components
System Health
Business Process
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Quality Center
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TestDirector Provides Anytime, Anywhere Web
Access to Testing Assets
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TestDirector Manages The Entire Testing Process
Defect Management

• Single tool for the entire test management
  process
• Web-enabled for access for all project team
  members
• Customizable workflow to follow your best
  practices
• Open and integrated with lifecycle tools

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Automated Functional Testing Saves Time and Money
Sample Calculation

• Increases Test Coverage.
• Enables focusing on new functionality.
• Creates reusable tests.
• Eliminates human error

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BEA WebLogic Test Management Functional Testing
Best Practices

• Build test cases based on requirements
• Maintain traceability throughout the test
  lifecycle
• Use best-of-breed tools with open architecture
• Store and share all scripts in a central location
  
• Verify all BEA client user interfaces
• Ensure broken-link testing verification
• Determine expected results calcs before testing
• Automate only tests that you need to run
  repeatedly

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Performance Center
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Manage The Chaos
Mercury Delivery Offerings
PERFORMANCE TESTING
Application
Configuration

• Business Process Emulation
• End-to-end Monitoring
• Identify System Bottleneck

• Application Diagnostics
• Transaction breakdown
• Component, method, SQL
• Down to source code
• Toughest J2EE issues

• System Tuning
• Isolate system bottlenecks
• Tier or component level
• Knowledge-base
• Centralized console

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Mercury LoadRunner
Industry-leading automated scalability and
performance testing
PERFORMANCE MONITORS
Web Server
Application Server
Database
Internet/WAN
LoadRunnerController
LoadRunnerVirtual Users

• Replaces real users with thousands of virtual
  users
• Generates consistent, measurable, and repeatable
  load, managed from a single point of control
• Efficiently isolates performance bottlenecks
  across all tiers/layers with automated reporting
  and analyses

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Mercury Difference
Mercury LoadRunner
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Now With Complete J2EE Diagnostics and Analysis
Integrated Monitors
Automated Analysis
LoadRunner J2EE Microsoft COM .NET Performance
Monitors
COMPONENT
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Diagnostics Goes Deep
Core part of Mercury J2EE Family
DELIVERY
MANAGEMENT
DIAGNOSTIC Bottleneck IdentificationIsolate Slow
MethodsBreakdown by Tier
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Business Availability Center
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Complete Enterprise Class Production Visibility
24x7 Real-time Monitoring
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Reduced Time to Problem Resolution
Mercury End-to-End J2EE Diagnostics
Metrics in Context of End User Transaction Transa
ction Breakdown relates component performance to
overall business process
Component and Method Level Visibility In-depth
views into performance of J2EE components,
methods and SQL statements
Drill Down to Instance and Source
Code Facilitates rapid diagnostics and
resolution for the toughest J2EE problems
Automated Analysis Across Tiers Correlating
metrics across end-user, application and system
tiers for automatic root cause analysis
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Mercury Difference Broadest Monitoring
Mercury for J2EE
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Customer Success
Major Insurance Company
Mercury for J2EE provides an early warning
threshold allowing us to fix a problem before it
causes a major outage.

• Production WebLogic application not scaling
  beyond 15 users
• Limited access to developers familiar with the
  application code

Challenge

• Topaz for J2EE discovered JDBC problems
• Replaced old Oracle drivers and optimized code

Solution
Isolated problem in under 48 hours, application
performance improved now meets objective
RESULT
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Mercury Interactive
IT GOVERNANCE
DELIVER
MANAGE