The SAP standard application benchmark performed on August 31, 1999, by Bull in Bull Les Clayes/Bois, France, was certified on September 6, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 240 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.93 seconds

Throughput: 1,200 SAPS (72,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 24,000 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.022 (dialog) / 0.048 (update)

CPU utilization central server: 99%

Operating System central server: Windows NT 4.0

RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.4

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