The SAP standard application benchmark performed on March 15, 1999, by IBM in Raleigh, NC, USA, was certified on April 30, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 200 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.92 seconds

Throughput: 1,000 SAPS (60,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 20,000 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.056 (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 5500 M20, 4 processors SMP, Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz, 1 MB Second Level Cache, 4 GB main memory