ZACHMANNTEST - A SYNTHETIC MEMORY BENCHMARK FOR SAP ERP SYSTEMS

André Bögelsack, Holger Wittges, Helmut Krcmar, Hannes Kühnemund

2011

Abstract

SAP ERP systems are the backbone of today’s enterprises and business processes. The technical performance of such systems directly influences the business performance. Estimating or measuring the performance of SAP ERP systems is a hard task due the diversity of the measurement process. We present a synthetic benchmark called Zachmanntest which measures the performance of the SAP ERP system focusing on main memory operations. The internal flow logic is presented as well as the usage of the Zachmanntest. Results of the peak performance measurement and scalability of heterogeneous servers are presented.

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Bögelsack A., Wittges H., Krcmar H. and Kühnemund H. (2011). ZACHMANNTEST - A SYNTHETIC MEMORY BENCHMARK FOR SAP ERP SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-53-9, pages 348-355. DOI: 10.5220/0003437903480355


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis11,
author={André Bögelsack and Holger Wittges and Helmut Krcmar and Hannes Kühnemund},
title={ZACHMANNTEST - A SYNTHETIC MEMORY BENCHMARK FOR SAP ERP SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2011},
pages={348-355},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003437903480355},
isbn={978-989-8425-53-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - ZACHMANNTEST - A SYNTHETIC MEMORY BENCHMARK FOR SAP ERP SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8425-53-9
AU - Bögelsack A.
AU - Wittges H.
AU - Krcmar H.
AU - Kühnemund H.
PY - 2011
SP - 348
EP - 355
DO - 10.5220/0003437903480355