Simulate

Deploy with Confidence

Ascension Suite clients know with confidence how their system will perform without relying on their users to break the news.  Complex applications in the Oracle Hyperion EPM suite require powerful simulations to truly know how they’ll perform in production.

Performance issues are an unavoidable fact of life.  They can range from simple slowdowns to complete crashes.  There are many causes, including user volume, particular mixes of simultaneous tasks, and many others.   You have two choices when faced with the reality of performance issues:

  1.  Wait for issues and deal with them each time they occur.
  2. Proactively and regularly test your system with realistic scenarios.

Ascension Suite has the most robust, Hyperion centric, easy to use, cost effective way to simulate system performance available.   This combination of benefits provides our users with a powerful, repeatable option to not only test their systems before initial deployments, but to also constantly re-test with actual use cases to detect performance degradation easily and proactively.

Compare Us

Check out the features and benefits, and compare Ascension Suite to HP Load Runner.  The days of spending too much money and time on load generation and user simulation are over.

Benefits

Rapid Results

Out of the box Hyperion tests ready to run in minutes, with no Custom Scripting required.

Economical

Substantial cost savings over HP Loadrunner – both initially and ongoing

Finance End User Friendly

Tests can be run without extensive IT involvement

Practical and Realistic

Replay your Oracle Hyperion EPM historical activity instead of spending time and money developing hypothetical test scripts

Powerful Analytics

Compare simulation results with actual performance being tracked with Ascension Suite to make sense of results

Flexible

Works on a broad range of applications and technologies

Sensible SLAs

Establish intelligent service-level agreements before applications go live

Thorough

Automatically mirror your end users actions step by step to achieve accurate results

Actionable Results

Ascension suite feedback after load generation / user simulation on every element of your EPM deployment means identifying  bottlenecks and potential resolutions, eliminating guesswork and accelerating performance tuning.

Confident Upgrades

Obtain an accurate picture of end‑to‑end system performance before going live, and verify that new or upgraded applications meet specified performance requirements

Decrease Risk

Validate the end-user experience before deploying to the user community

Features

  • Out of the box Hyperion tests ready to run in minutes, with no Custom Scripting required.
    • Smartview
    • Reports
    • Web Forms
    • Web Grids
    • Planning Forms
    • Planning Calcs
  • Replay historical user activity example: Simulate a previous close cycle
  • Manage Software and Hardware upgrades:  replay a close cycle from one environment in a new environment
  • Load results tie into the other performance tracking data already collected by Ascension Suite
  • Test a broad range of applications and technologies
  • Support testing on traditional platforms, as well as new platforms such as cloud and mobile
  • Identify and reduce performance bottlenecks before deployment to avoid performance issues in production
  • Deliver enterprise load generation, monitoring, and diagnostics
  • Support testing across the application lifecycle
  • Support performance testing of new technologies together with your existing, legacy applications
  • Accurately test a mix of mobile and Internet users
  • Reduce hardware and software costs by accurately predicting application scalability and capacity
  • Shorten test cycles to accelerate delivery of high‑quality applications
  • Pinpoint end-user, system-level, and code-level bottlenecks rapidly and with ease
  • Reduce the cost of defects by testing earlier in the application lifecycle

Screenshots

Web Load Generator


Activity Analysis showing synthetic load

Successes

Success Summary – Performance Problem- Rapid Resolution:

One of our clients received a call from a user complaining of a problem in their system related to performance as they tried to run a report in HFM.  Before Accelatis, many people would need to become involved to attempt to gather information and diagnose the problem.  It takes a knowledgeable person to even know what to look for, much less make sense of the information once it’s eventually in hand.  Various logs and other artifacts would have been manually pulled from many servers, which were then packaged and sent to the analyst.  Once the information was received the analyst would have needed to filter out the noise and reconcile dates and activities across logs.  They would then need to have enough expertise to understand how to look for events that are related to the complaint.  This process typically took hours or days before the analyst was in a position to make an assessment.  With Ascension Suite this process was automated took our client a few clicks and a few seconds to pinpoint and correct the issue.