The SAP standard application benchmark performed on April 16, 1999, by Bull in France, was certified on April 23, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 217 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.95 seconds

Throughput: 1,080 SAPS (65,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 21,700 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.032 (dialog) / 0.149 (update)

CPU utilization central server: 99%

Operating System central server: Windows NT 4.0 EE

RDBMS: SQL Server 7.0

R/3 Release: 4.0 B

Total disk space: 283 GB

Configuration:

1 Central Server: Bull Express 5800 MH4500, 4 processors SMP, Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz, 2 MB Second Level Cache, 4 GB main memory