The SAP standard application benchmark performed on June 18, 1999, by IBM in Raleigh, NC, USA, was certified on June 22, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 374 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.99 seconds

Throughput: 1,870 SAPS (112,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 37,330 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.116 (dialog) / 0.305 (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: 455 GB

Configuration:

1 Central Server: IBM Netfinity 8500, 8-processors SMP, Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz, 2 MB Second Level Cache, 4 GB main memory