Bajaj Allianz

Case study | Bajaj Allianz
“I‘m aware of all the major testing tools,
and we chose HP Performance Center on
SaaS because HP’s performance testing
tools are known world-wide as the number
one,” says Pal. “The reports that the HP tool
produces give each and every detail, and are
very user-friendly and simple to understand.”
Short deadline
As the testing requirement was for a one
-oproject,thecompanydidnotwanttopay
to acquire software licenses for test software.
It also did not have the appropriate in-house
skills, as Pal explains, “We didn’t have any
expertise in performance testing in our
company, so we wanted to enlist the help
of a third party company who could do the
testing for us.”
To meet its needs, Bajaj Allianz approached
a HP partner. They recommended KPIT
Technologies, another HP partner, to carry
out the testing. KPIT provided a team of
two, who carried out the testing at
BajajAllianz’soces.
For the project, HP provided HP Performance
Center v12 running Software as a Service
(SaaS) with one controller, three Load
Generators and 300 virtual users of Oracle
E-Business Protocol Bundle. By running an
on-demand SaaS solution, Bajaj Allianz
benetedfromtheexibilitytoscaleupor
down as required, and to execute performance
tests from load generators in the cloud or
on its premises.
“Our management gave us only one month
to complete the testing,” says Pal. “It should
have required more time, but the KPIT team
understood our need for the short timescale,
andputintheextraeortneededtoensure
they successfully hit our deadline.”
Benet
Issues resolved
To verify the expected performance,
KPIT and Bajaj Allianz carried out the upgrade
rstinatestenvironment,andused
Performance Center to analyze the results.
PerformanceCenterenabledKPITtond
several unoptimized database queries
that had a negative impact on performance,
which meant that Bajaj Allianz’s development
teamcouldthenxtheproblems.
“We discovered some issues that could
have compromised the performance of
the production system,” says Pal.
“Through Performance Center, we were
able to identify these problems –
which we could then resolve.”
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