For those that didn’t know, I recently started a new role as a Senior Sales Engineer at Login VSI. After seeing Ron Oglesby join over a year ago, I knew some exciting things must be happening over there. Once the SE role opened up, I had to apply and be part of the fun. Now that I’m several weeks into it, I wanted to share a few things that I’ve learned about the product versus my assumptions going into the role!
1) Login Enterprise isn’t just for (virtual) load testing
When I first got my hands on Login VSI’s products (now the product suite is known as Login Enterprise) around a decade ago, we looked at them purely as an upfront load tester to get an idea of how many users our customers’ hardware could support.
Oh, you bought 2000 CCU Citrix seats? Cool, let’s throw some automated knowledge worker sessions at your hardware via Login VSI to make sure we bought the right amount. Here’s your results, and now we’re pretty much done with the product until we need to make major changes to the environment.
Nowadays, Login Enterprise is so much more than that.
For example, Login Enterprise can transform the way you think about traditional monitoring. Using a methodology called “Continuous Testing,” Login Enterprise can do 24×7 tests against any environment you point it at. Imagine having robots constantly emulating workflows your employees are doing and reporting back any anomalies. This can be from a physical OR virtual device, and you can even customize it to your line of business apps using a new tool called Script Recorder!
2) Script Recorder
Login VSI used to be limited on what apps you could do simulated testing. Any specialized line of business applications were pretty much out of the question. Now, earlier this year, Login VSI released an awesome tool called Script Recorder. The customer now has the ability to record workflows within their own applications and use those recordings for application, load, and continuous testing.
This tool is revolutionary to the Login Enterprise product suite, as it opens the door to so many possibilities. For example, this video shows how a healthcare organization can leverage Script Recorder to measure changes and anomalies to their EMR software before clinicians notice any impact.
3) The ability to completely transform your change process
Nowadays, updates are typically done in some sort of Ring update fashion. You send them to your Ring 1 (Test/QA) users and listen for screams to the Service Desk. No tickets? Great, send them to 25% of the users in Ring 2.
Uh oh, our QA users don’t regularly use this Call Center app that just got completely broken by the new security agent that we pushed out. Now hundreds of Call Center users are bombarding the Service Desk and the team has to scramble to rip off the new agent before millions of dollars in revenue are lost.
Sound familiar?
Login VSI puts a stop to this trauma cycle and allows objective data to protect our end users’ daily experience. Login Enterprise can be used as a “Ring Zero” deployment, so your test robots are experiencing the changes before your actual end users do. Wouldn’t you rather the problem statement look like this?
Our test robots are reporting that our main Call Center application completely breaks when that new security agent went out. We should engage our security vendor to fix that before we send it to production users and cripple our business.
Login Enterprise is the future to protecting and enhancing your end user experience. Learn more about the platform here and how you can be proactive to changes in today’s fast-paced IT landscape.