what is SAPS

[Former Member]

what is SAPS?what is use of SAPS.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As per the discussion in SDN earlier:

Goto http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/measuring/index.epx to see the description of the SAPS Definition (SAP Application Performance Standard).

Overall to summarize: SAP is not a hardware vendor and the SAPS Definition is an agreed upon method of defining the capacity requirements of an SAP system which all hardware vendors can translate into actual hardware. As CPU's increase in speed and memory decreases in latency, storage arrays, fiber channels, virtual or LPAR environments - the overall SAPS will remain unchanged or change with respect to customer activity, volume, business needs and release and type of the SAP Application.

Hope that makes some sense - take the SAPS to your hardware vendor and they will be able to translate the SAP's to the respective eqiupment as necessary.

Do additionally refer to the respective installation guide for minimum requirements for Solution Manager Installation to insure your solution is capable of meeting minimum requirements.

Regards

Bala

[Former Member]

Hi,

The SAP Application Performance Standard (SAPS) is a hardware-independent unit that describes the performance of a system configuration in the SAP environment. It is derived from the Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark, where 100 SAPS is defined as 2,000 fully business processed order line items per hour.

In technical terms, this throughput is achieved by processing 6,000 dialog steps (screen changes), 2,000 postings per hour in the SD Benchmark, or 2,400 SAP transactions.

In the SD Benchmark, fully business processed means the full business process of an order line item: creating the order, creating a delivery note for the order, displaying the order, changing the delivery, posting a goods issue, listing orders, and creating an invoice.

Using SAPS for Sizing

If, for example, a sizing table for a portal suggests a configuration of 1,000 SAPS, you can check the SD Benchmark table for a sample configuration. If you set the sort order in the SAPS column, you will see a number of benchmark tests that can give you an idea about which configurations are likely to fulfill your requirements.

Please visit the following links for detailed information:

http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/index.epx

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/netweaver?rid=/webcontent/uuid/a06a3512-1a23-2a10-caa5-ee60d87ec953 [original link is broken]

http://www.sap.info/public/INT/int/index/Category-12613c61affe7a5bc-int/-1/articlesVersions-1313643f...

Let me know in case of any queries.

Regards,

Rakesh