The SAP standard application benchmark performed on February 24, 1999, by Bull in France was certified on March 4, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 183 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.96 seconds

Throughput: 920 SAPS (55,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 18,300 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.063 (dialog) / 0.065 (update)

CPU utilization central server: 99%

Operating System central server: Windows NT 4.0

RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.4

R/3 Release: 4.0 B

Total disk space: 140 GB

Configuration:

1 Central Server: Bull Express 5800 MH4500, 4 processors SMP, Pentium II Xeon, 400 MHz, 1 MB Second Level Cache, 4 GB main memory