The SAP standard application benchmark performed on October 11, 1999, by Bull in Echirolles, France, was certified on October 27, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 260 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.89 seconds

Throughput: 1,320 SAPS (79,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 26,330 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.070 (dialog) / 0.163 (update)

CPU utilization central server: 99%

Operating System central server: AIX 4.3.2

RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.5

R/3 Release: 4.0 B

Total disk space: 343 GB

Configuration:

1 Central Server: Bull ESCALA EPC 430, 4 processors SMP, RS 64-III 400 MHz, 4 MB Second Level Cache, 4 GB main memory