SAP STANDARD APPLICATION BENCHMARKS

This article answers the following queries :

• What is the SAP Standard Application benchmark?

• Benefits of benchmarks ?

• What is the full form of SAPS ? How SAPS  is derived ?

• What is SAPS ?  How to calculate SAPS ?

• How is SAPS defined ?

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SAP standard application benchmarks are the standards developed by SAP along with their hardware partners to help customers and sap partners to figure out the appropriate hardware configuration for their IT landscape.

The benchmarking process is standardized and well defined and is monitored by the SAP benchmark council and technology partners who are involved in the benchmarking.

This benchmarking is used to test and verify

• Quality assurance

• Scalability

• Concurrency

• Power efficiency

• Multi user behavior of system software components

• RDBMS

• Business applications

Benefits of benchmarks :

The primary objective of benchmarking is to use the results to determine an optimal SAP system hardware configuration

Benchmark results provide following benefits to customers:

• Provide useful information to configure and Size SAP systems for optimal performance

• Facilitates customers for Comparison across different platforms

• Provides an outlook for future performance levels

• Enable proof of concept scenarios

SAP internally uses these benchmark results to figure out the performance or memory consumption of a new products developed.

SAP Application Performance Standard(SAPS)

Full form of SAPS is SAP Application Performance Standard

SAPS is a hardware-independent unit of measurement which describes the performance of a system configuration in the SAP environment. It is derived by SAP from the Sales and distribution(SD) benchmark.

“SAPS is defined as 2000 fully business processed order line items per hour.”

In technical terms(as per SAP definition), this throughput is achieved by processing 6000 dialog steps (screen changes), 2000 postings per hour in the SD benchmark or 2400 SAP transactions.

As per SD benchmark, fully business processed means the full business process of an order line item like creation of an order, creation of delivery note for an order, changing the delivery, posting a goods issue, listing orders and creating an invoice.

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