The SAP standard application benchmark performed on December 3, 1998, by IBM in Raleigh, NC, USA was certified on December 9, 1998 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 165 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.98 seconds

Throughput: 830 SAPS (50,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 16,700 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.424 (dialog) / 0.405 (update)

CPU utilization central server: 99%

Operating System central server: Windows NT EE SP3

RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.4

R/3 Release: 4.0 B

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, 4 GB main memory