Quick Sizer Factsheet

This document discusses Quick Sizer, a tool from SAP that helps determine hardware sizing requirements based on business needs. It does this through a questionnaire that translates business metrics into technical requirements. Quick Sizer uses proven sizing methods developed with SAP partners to recommend hardware that meets performance needs cost effectively.

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Quick Sizer

Determining Your Sizing requirementS with quick Sizer

BuSIneSSOrIenTed, PrOVen, COSTeffeCTIVe SIzIng
Introduction
Quick Sizer translates business require ments into technical requirements. It deploys a proven sizing methodology developed in close cooperation with SAP technology partners. By determin ing your sizing requirements, you can ensure that your hardware purchase will meet your business and performance requirements. A financial benefit will be lower costs and a reduced total cost of ownership. Just consider the costs of unused hardware beyond its initial price, you also have to account for the ongoing energy and maintenance costs it will accrue. The performance requirements of SAP solutions are usually defined by the busi ness requirements. Hardware and sys tem performance, however, is measured by technical performance indicators. Matching these fundamentally different performance figures is the goal of the sizing process (see the following figure). To this end, the information provided by Quick Sizer can help you select the hardware and system platform needed to meet your business requirements.

With Quick Sizer, you can enjoy the following benefits: Simplified sizing free of charge based on businessoriented figures Verification of sizing made by partners or customers (the tool is part of the sizing plausibility check) Online, uptodate sizing algorithms based on the SAP Standard Application benchmarks Proven sizing methodology Close cooperation with SAP technology partners
customer Expectations from sizing Optimal performance Suggestion for hardware configuration Contributions Throughput requirements Provides business data input feedback and experience

SAP technology Partners Certified benchmarks on scalable hardware Performance studies Custom load tests in collaboration with customers

Hardware configuration

An Economically Balanced System

Sizing is brought to your desktop via an online application. Quick Sizer provides uptodate sizing information and guides you through a structured questionnaire. The business requirements are stated as simple businessoriented figures such as the number of users or expected number of processed business process es and documents. These figures are translated by Quick Sizer into hardware independent requirements that enable initial budget planning. Based on the determined categories, SAP technology partners can propose a complete system configuration for your system landscape and components.

Sizing recommendation CPU (SAPS) Memory (MB) Database space (MB) Disk I/O operations per sec

feedback and experience

SAP Quick Sizer Standard sizing guide lines as part of quality assurance process Sizing verification processes

Technical requirements

Business requirements

Figure: The Sizing Process

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Sizing Methods
Quick Sizer uses two independent sizing approaches: userbased and throughputbased. for small businesses, the userbased sizing approach might be appropriate. Business requirements are determined by the number of users performing specific business tasks. users are grouped per business task according to their estimated usage activ ity. Based on this information, a rough sizing recommendation is provided. for midsize, large, and complex businesses, an additional throughputbased sizing is recommended. Besides the number of users, additional information about the number of business processes and business objects is used.

Proven Sizing Methodology

The sizing methodology is based on performance measurements and is validated by approximately 50,000 SAP projects created per year. Over 14,000 customers have successfully sized their hardware with Quick Sizer since July 2005.2

Cooperation with SAP Technology Partners

Comprehensive sizing support is a joint effort SAP has developed and deployed the sizing methodology in close cooperation with its technology partners. unified standards and goals agreed upon by SAP and its technology partners help ensure the right match of hardware technology and business.

The Result: A Balanced Set of Needed Hardware Components

SAPs comprehensive sizing methodol ogy helps ensure that all the needed hardware components build a balanced system infrastructure. database and application servers are adequately equipped to fulfill the business require ments. The right combination of process ing performance (in SAPS),1 amount of disk space (in MB), disk I/O, and main memory (in MB) is proposed.

For More Information

If you are a prospect and would like to use the Webbased sizing tool Quick Sizer, contact your SAP sales repre sentative. If you are already using SAP solutions, go to http://service.sap.com /quicksizing to start using the tool (login is required).

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1. SAP Application Performance Standard (SAPS) is a hardwareindependent 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 the computing power to handle 2,000 fully business processed order line items per hour. (for more information, go to www.sap.com/benchmark.) 2. Based on data from 2009.

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