The SAP standard application benchmark performed on June 24, 1998, by IBM in Raleigh, NC, USA was certified on June 29, 1998 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 229 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.98 seconds

Throughput: 1,150 SAPS (69,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 23,000 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.271 (dialog) / 0.797 (update)

CPU utilization central server: 99%

Operating System central server: Windows NT EE SP3

RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.4

R/3 Release: 3.1 H

Total disk space: 455 GB

Configuration:

1 Central Server: IBM Netfinity 7000 M10, 4 processors SMP, Pentium II Xeon, 400 MHz, 1 MB Second Level Cache, 2 GB main memory