The SAP standard application benchmark performed on January 24, 1999, by IBM in Raleigh, NC, USA was certified on January 29, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 210 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.95 seconds

Throughput: 1,050 SAPS (63,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 21,000 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.057 (dialog) / 0.201 (update)

CPU utilization central server: 99%

Operating System central server: Windows NT 4.0 EE

RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.4

R/3 Release: 4.0 B

Total disk space: 655 GB

Configuration:

1 Central Server: IBM Netfinity 7000 M10, 4 processors SMP, Pentium II Xeon, 450 MHz, 2 MB Second Level Cache, 4 GB main memory