HP (formerly Mecury) Performance Center™ is an enterprise-class application performance testing platform. It provides a complete, on-demand optimisation solution for your application performance process, integrating load testing with diagnostics and capacity planning applications.

Whether you want to standardise on a specific testing platform or seek to develop a Performance Testing Centre of Excellence (CoE), HP Performance Center is the platform on which you can base your quality initiative. HP Performance Center delivers a 24x7, globally accessible and shareable pool of load testing resources to minimize the total cost of load testing in the enterprise. It can also serve as a collaborative platform for a Performance Testing CoE, maximising use of both infrastructure and employee resources.

With HP Performance Center, you can:

• Enable complete visibility into application performance bottlenecks that stand in the way of intended business outcomes.
• Lower the cost of distributed load testing by providing a standard solution that can be accessed via the web, providing 24x7 access to a shared testing infrastructure.
• Provide a platform for running a performance testing CoE or IT shared service.
• Provide project-level visibility and a collaborative working environment to all members of the application team.

HP's Performance Center Offerings

HP Performance Center includes integrated applications and a business dashboard for key application performance optimisation activities, including load-testing, capacity planning, and J2EE diagnostics across complex, heterogeneous computing environments.

Business-Centric Approach to Application Performance

HP’s application delivery offerings provide the first business-centric, lifecycle approach to optimising application performance during pre-production.