What is OpenText Core Performance Engineering?

Core Performance Engineering is the SaaS edition of the LoadRunner family. It provides cloud-hosted load generators across AWS, Azure, and GCP regions with enterprise protocol coverage, APM correlation, and CI/CD integration. The product lineage previously went by LoadRunner Cloud under Micro Focus.

How is Core PE different from Professional and Enterprise editions?

Core PE is SaaS with elastic cloud generators. Professional Performance Engineering is desktop for engineers running local tests. Enterprise Performance Engineering is centralized on-prem with multi-team project workspaces. Scripts and protocols are consistent across editions. Choice is about generator location and program operating model.

Does Core PE handle SAP performance testing?

Yes. Core PE covers SAP GUI, Fiori, and standard HTTP-based SAP protocols. For regulated SAP programs, Merito typically pairs Core PE with Functional Testing for SAP and Service Virtualization for dependency-constrained scenarios.

Does Core PE integrate with our APM tool?

Yes. Core PE correlates results with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, and Datadog. Correlation ties performance regressions to specific code and infrastructure changes visible in the APM.

How is Core PE licensed?

Core PE is a subscription keyed to virtual-user hours, user seats and region coverage, so the price follows your VU-hour tier, concurrent executions and the regions you generate load from. Before quoting, Merito sizes the VU-hour tier from the user journeys and peak events you need to rehearse rather than from a generic virtual-user target.

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Frequently Asked Questions

OpenText Core Performance Engineering FAQs

Choose Core PE when existing OpenText DevOps catalog investment pays off, when SAP and legacy-protocol coverage is needed, and when regulated APM integration is required. Choose BlazeMeter when JMeter compatibility and broader SV options matter most. Choose open-source JMeter when cost is the primary constraint and scope is simple. Core PE also runs JMeter and Gatling scripts, so a team can keep the open-source scripts it already has.

Merito puts program design first, with user-journey modeling, APM-correlated baselines and peak-event profiles in place before any scripting. Scenarios are then wired into CI/CD as release gates, with ownership rules so a gate never runs against a stale scenario. LoadRunner Cloud transitions, training and staff augmentation can be added, and Managed Services can take over peak-event rehearsals once the program is running.

OpenText Core Performance Engineering

OpenText Core Performance Engineering in the enterprise stack

Where OpenText Core Performance Engineering earns its seat

Elastic public-cloud generators across regions

Shares protocols with Professional and Enterprise

CI-native reporting and gating

OpenText Core Performance Engineering capabilities, grouped by outcome

Protocol coverage and scripting

Execution and elasticity

Reporting and integration

How OpenText Core Performance Engineering connects to the rest of your landscape

APM and observability (native)

OpenText DevOps catalog (certified)

CI/CD and open-source (custom)

How it rolls out

How it is bought

How Merito helps you win with OpenText Core Performance Engineering

Performance Program Design

SAP Performance Testing

DevOps Consulting

Upgrade and Migration

Premium Support

Managed Services

Training and Enablement

Staff Augmentation

Core PE scenarios designed from real user journeys before the first load test.

VU hours are not the success metric. Representative scenarios are.

OpenText Core Performance Engineering FAQs

Talk to Merito about cloud load testing

Peak events without owning generators

VU hours are inputs, not outputs

Model the journeys. Correlate with APM. Gate in CI.

OpenText Core Performance Engineering

OpenText Core Performance Engineering in the enterprise stack

Where OpenText Core Performance Engineering earns its seat

Elastic public-cloud generators across regions

Shares protocols with Professional and Enterprise

CI-native reporting and gating

OpenText Core Performance Engineering capabilities, grouped by outcome

Protocol coverage and scripting

Execution and elasticity

Reporting and integration

How OpenText Core Performance Engineering connects to the rest of your landscape

APM and observability (native)

OpenText DevOps catalog (certified)

CI/CD and open-source (custom)

How it rolls out

How it is bought

How Merito helps you win with OpenText Core Performance Engineering

Core PE scenarios designed from real user journeys before the first load test.

VU hours are not the success metric. Representative scenarios are.

Continue exploring OpenText Core Performance Engineering on Merito

OpenText Core Performance Engineering FAQs

Talk to Merito about cloud load testing

Peak events without owning generators

VU hours are inputs, not outputs

Model the journeys. Correlate with APM. Gate in CI.