1. Performance, Scalability & Benchmarking of mySAP.com
Bernd F. Lober SAP AG

2. Multi-tier Internet Architecture
Load
Layer
2-tier
3-tier
Multi-tier
Internet Architecture
10-20%
Presentation
Services
Presentation
Services
Web
Browser
User Dialog: Graphical information processing
Presentation
Web
Server
Web
Server
Handling Internet access
5-10%
Internet Server
Internet Server
Processing Internet Transactions
Internet
Application Services
Processing application logic:
System Management
Transaction Monitoring
Production
Create
Orders
Release
Schedule
Customer
Accept
Order
Delivery
Confirm
Products
Build
Material
Bill-of-
Explode
Reserve
Service
Rep
Personnel
Plant
Part
Task
Application Services
60-70%
Application
Database Services
10-20%
Database Services
Information Storage
Database Backup
Database

3. Vertical Scalability Multi-tier Internet architecture
One-tier: Laptop Demo System
Two-tier: Central Installation (database and application part on one physical server), multiple presentation servers
Three-tier: One database server, multiple application servers and multiple presentation servers
Multi-tier: One database server, multiple application servers multiple presentation servers, mutiple Internet Transaction Server and multiple Web servers

4. Horizontal Scalability
Presentation Layer
26,000 very active users connected to one database have been tested
Internet Transaction Server and Web Server
More than 100 hits /sec
Application Layer
Up to 161 application servers have been tested successfully
The highest number of physical application servers at customer installations is less than 30
Database Layer
Scalability through SMP architecture of the database server
More than 120 CPUs and more than 10 TB Database size
Scalability through parallel databases
Scalability through Components

5. SAP Standard Application Benchmarks
mySAP Supply Chain Management
mySAP Human Resources
Materials Management - MM
Cross Application Time Sheets -
CATS
Sales & Distribution - SD
Payroll
Production Planning - PP
Warehouse Management - WM
mySAP Financials
Assemble - To -
Order -
ATO
Financial Accounting - FI
Advanced Planning and Optimizing - APO
Industry Solutions
mySAP Product Lifecycle Management
Retail
Project System - PS
Banking -
Bank Customer Accounts -
BCA
Utilities -
Customer Care and Service -
CCS
mySAP Business Intelligence
Business Information Warehouse - BW
mySAP Customer Relationship Mgmt
Internet Sales
Customer Interaction Center
E-commerce
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6. CPU Utilization of Different Servers

7. Published Results for SD Benchmarks (Two-tier Client/Server Configuration)
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
9000
Rel. 4.6 C
128-way Server
8000
7800
7000
Number of SD
Benchmark users
6000
5000
Rel. 4.6 C
76-way Server
4000
4100
Rel. 4.0 B
64-way Server
3000
3000
Rel. 2.2 C
8-way Server
Rel. 3.0 E
64-way Server
2000
1708
Rel. 2.2 G
24-way Server
1410
1000
Rel. 4.0 B
24-way Server
300
600
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8. Published Results for SD Benchmarks (Highest Number of Users)
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
30000
26000
25560
25000
Number of SD
Benchmark users
24000
23000
20000
19360
16440
15000
14400
10000
6750
6030
5000
5320
3700
600
2900
1400
2000
300
900
1700
120
Three-tier Internet Architecture

9. Key Figures for the 26,000 SD User Benchmark31

10. Published Results for SD Benchmarks (Highest Number of Line Items)
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
Fully business-processed order line items per hour
607000
678000
534000
500000
380000
230000
299000
115000
33000
175000
12000
90000
Three-tier Internet Architecture

11. Published Results for the ATO Benchmark (3-Tier)
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
160000
144090
140000
Highest Number
of Assembly Orders
130570
120000
100000
80000
60000
54220
40000
22610
20000
9130

12. Published Result for the APO Benchmark (Demand Planning)
2000
2001
2002
2003
140000
129871
120000
100000
79611
80000
60000
53199
40000
20000
Number of Planned Characteristic Combinations at
Aggregated Level Per Hour

14. CPU- Usage / Dialog step
"Load Factors" based on the SAP Standard Application Benchmarks Version Example
7,00
Rel.
CPU- Usage / Dialog step
6,00
Platform & Release dependent
5,00
4,00
79%
3,00
80%
2,00
81% 8%
Database
1,00
77%
88%
74% 9% 6%
10%
11%
10%
13%
Update 9%
11% 6%
16%
11%
0,00
Dialog FI WM MM SD PP
ATO
SAP Business Component

15. Summary Proven Scalability - with enough potential for future growth
mySAP.com exploits the latest available components
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16. Questions And Answers