SAP Performance Testing - Manual or Automated?

Our organization is attempting to develop a regular performance testing effort.  Everything wehave read points to using a tool, such as LoadRunner, to do performance testing.  However, we're just starting and simply want to baseline several transactions, jobs, programs, etc (less than 30 items).  We have tools to monitor the backend results and grab metrics, but no tools to automate the testing itself.  Does anyone do their performance testing manually?  What are some advantages to doing this?

Hi Yogi,
I think HP LoadRunner is one of the best tools for SAP performance testing. I did it for many years. It is now included with Solution Manager. Here is the link for for HP Mercury regarding performance testing.
https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-126_4000_100__
Please check this site as well, it has lot of valuable information.
http://www.wilsonmar.com/1loadrun.htm
Regards, Nabi.

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