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This site will give you information about all certified SAP Standard Application Benchmarks . There are some predifined queries that will show you some common subsets of benchmarks sorted by the achieved result. You also can use the search form to select you own choice. But pay attention, that only those benchmarks can be compared that are equal in
  • Component (e.g. SD, ATO, BW, ...)
  • Configuration (2-tier or 3-tier)
It may be important to take the release into account, but "SAP-Release" is not a class builing attribute in the benchmark publication rules (the rules can be found under www.sap.com/benchmark Publication Policy)
 
 

The meaning of the keywords in the query-form


 
Component The benchmark component indicates the SAP component that is mainly testet by the given benchmark.
Show are only thoses components, for which there are certified benchmarks.
Config There are two configurations:
  • 2-tier
    On this configuration, everything runs on one system. This is also called central benchmark, because everything runs on one central server. On this server you will find the database, the dialog, batch and update tasks and the central instance. Only the benchmark driver (the presentation layer) may be on an other server (this makes the second layer from which the name 2-tier comes).
  • 3-tier
    On a three tier configuration, you will normally find the three layers "presentation", "application" and "database" on seperate hosts. Because an SAP system can be configured in several ways, there is no rule how the tasks have to be distributed across the servers. A common configuration is, that there is one database server with only the database running on it, several application servers with the dialog and update tasks and one server for the central instance. But other configurations have been certified as well.
Release The release indicates the release of the used SAP software. This is normally the release of the R/3 system (3.1, 4.0, ...) but it also may be the release of an other SAP application like BW, IS-U, BCA, ... depending on the benchmark component.
Vendor This is the name of the hardware provider.
As a company name is nothing stable, you may find several company names if you choose only one. E.g. if you choose "HP", you will also find results from Compaq and Digital, or if you choos "FSC", you will also find results from "SNI" and "Siemens".
Database This indicates the database software.
Operatingsystem This indicates the operating system of the central server in a two tier configuration. In a three tier configuration, the operatingsystem of the database server is the important thing. In heterogenous environments, also the operating system of the application servers is displayed and therefore will also match the query.
Servertype Here you can fill in any string you want. A result is displayed if this string is found somewhere in the server details.
Order by
  1. Certification Nr: Ordered like the benchmarks have been certified
  2. Result: The number of user or throughput is the sort criteria (depending on the benchmark)
Display Serverdetails
  1. Long: All available data for all servers is displayed
  2. Short: Only the type and amount of CPUs is displayed. In a 3-tier configuration, only the number of application servers is shown This will help you to keep a long list readable!
 
 

The meaning of the keywords in the result list


 
Nr This is the unique certification number.
Date The date, the benchmark was conducted.
Vendor The hardware provider.
Component The benchmark component (like SD, ATO, etc.).
Throughput The throughput is the result of the benchmark. The unit is depending on the component. E.g. SD benchmark generates a throughput value of "SAPS", the ATO benchmark generates "orders/h".
User For dialog benchmarks, users are another result. The users are simulated benchmark users with a thinktime of 10 seconds. By doing theire work, they will create the shown throughput.
Rsp The dialog responstime for dialog benchmarks. This is the responstime in seconds, the users sees when he sends a screen to the SAP system.
Config Configuration 2-tier or 3-tier. For more details see the first paragraph.
Release Release of the used SAP software. For more details see the first paragraph.
DBMS Databaseserver type and version.
OS Operatingsystem release. In a 2-tier configuration this is the OS version of the central server, in a homogenous 3-tier configuration (all servers use the same OS) this is this one used OS, in a 3-tier heterogenous configuration, the different OS versions are shown.
System A detailled description of the used servers:
  • CENT
    The central server in a 2-tier configuration
  • DB
    The Database server
  • Dia
    Dialog servers
  • Upd
    Update server
  • Msg
    The message server
  • Enq
    The enqueue server
  • ITS Internet Transaction Server
If there are several tasks on one server this is indicated by task1+task2+....