SAP standard application benchmarks - IT benchmarks with a business focus

Abstract

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software. It delivers a comprehensive range of software products and services to its customers: Companies from all types of industries, ranging from small businesses to large, multinational enterprises engaged in global markets. The hardware and software requirements of these businesses are as diverse as the companies themselves, but for most customers they boil down to two key performance indicators: Throughput, of importance mainly for background processing, for example overnight payroll calculations, and response time, of relevance to end users actively engaged on the system. For over 15 years SAP and its hardware and technology partners have developed and used benchmarks to test the performance and scalability of both SAP solutions and the hardware they run on. The SAP Standard Application Benchmarks, first certified as such in 1995, help SAP and its partners prove that their software and hardware components scale up (and down) with their customers' business needs, and support customers in configuring SAP Business Solutions for their productive systems. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.