BW-EML SAP standard application benchmark

Abstract

The focus of this presentation is on the latest addition to the BW SAP Standard Application Benchmarks, the SAP Business Warehouse Enhanced Mixed Load (BW-EML) benchmark. The benchmark was developed as a modern successor to the previous SAP Business Warehouse benchmarks. With near real-time and ad hoc reporting capabilities on big data volumes the BW-EML benchmarks matches the demands of modern business warehouse customers. The development of the benchmark faced the challenge of two contradicting goals. On the one hand the reproducibility of benchmark results is a key requirement. On the other hand the variability in the query workload was necessary to reflect the requirements for ad hoc reporting. The presentation will give an insight to how these conflicting goals could be reached with the BW-EML benchmark.