The SAP standard application benchmark performed on March 16, 1999, by Bull in France was certified on March 17, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 290 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.99 seconds

Throughput: 1,450 SAPS (87,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 29,000 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.038 (dialog) / 0.105 (update)

CPU utilization central server: 99%

Operating System central server: Windows NT 4.0 EE

RDBMS: MS SQL Server 7.0

R/3 Release: 4.0 B

Total disk space: 331 GB

Configuration:

1 Central Server: Bull Express 5800 HV8600, 8 processors SMP, Pentium III Xeon, 500 MHz, 2 MB Second Level Cache, 4 GB main memory