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The new 64-way high performance GP7000FUNIX server launched in March has just provento be the worlds most powerful SAP mySAP.comserver. Fujitsu Siemens Computers recently an-nounced a new world record for SAP mySAP.comperformance in 2-tier configurations breaking the3,000 concurrent user mark for the first time, andestablishing Fujitsu Siemens Computers as the clearperformance leader in the mySAP.com market-place. This result almost doubles the currentperformance record of 1708 SD users for 2-tierbenchmarks and opens new performance dimen-sions for mySAP.com servers.

The new world record SAP benchmark was achie-ved at Fujitsu Siemens Computers BenchmarkCenter for Enterprise Computing in Paderborn,Germany, and has been certified by Walldorf-based SAP AG. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has atrack record of success in the SAP sector, regular-ly setting the standard for SAP R/3 performance,with recent benchmark successes for both Inteland UNIX-based servers. cont. page 10

In March 2000 Sun Microsystems and theOracle/SAP Competence Center announced in anew world record for the sales and distribution(SD) benchmark of SAP R/3 Release 4.0B, sup-porting 19,360 benchmark user.With an average response time of 1,88 secondsand 5,864,000 dialog steps per hour, both com-panies demonstrated the strong performance lea-dership of the Oracle on Sun solution for SAP.This result would allow more than 58.000 'reallife' SAP R/3 Sales and Distribution users towork in the same SAP system.

This benchmark result illustrates the very largeuser populations and quick response times compa-

nies can realize by running SAP R/3 applicationson a large-scale client/server configuration based onthe Oracle database and Sun's SPARC/SolarisT net-work computing platform. The benchmark certi-fied by SAP was conducted at the Sun EnterpriseServer Production Center in Newark/CA.

Once more Oracle has proven its magnificentscalability on high-end SMP systems like SunStarfire Enterprise 10000 with up to 64 proces-sors. Sun and Oracle are especially satisfied withachieving a CPU utilisation of 96,4% on thedatabase server. The benchmark was run usingOracle 8.1.5 on Solaris 8. cont. page 5

The Internet Changes Everything. How truethese words are in todays e-business economy.And information is at the center of the Internetrevolution. The better your information, themore efficiently and cost-effectively you can runyour business.We realize that we need to deliver the technologythat will help you get better information so that youcan take advantage of all the Internet has to offer.And weve done that with Oracle8i Oracles ground-breaking Internet database, with key features indata warehousing, Java, and Internet computing.Oracle8i provides efficient, reliable, secure data ma-nagement for high-end applications like mySAP.com.

The 12-year technology partnership between SAPand Oracle provides the best combination of pro-ducts to take your business into the future.SAP R/3 was developed on an Oracle database,and was first released to the market on Oracle.

Oracle8i has been extensively tested in the betaphase by the SAP development team, and providesthe foundation for mySAP.com, SAPs collaborativebusiness environment of personalized on-demandsolutions.

As part of a recently renewed agreement betweenOracle and SAP, Oracle continues to be a Tier Onedevelopment platform for SAP meaning SAP willdevelop, port and migrate its products to functionoptimally with Oracle database technologies.

Both SAP and Oracle continue to commit significantdevelopment resources to drive long-term technical,integration, reliability and to continually increasethe performance, flexibility, and functionality ofmySAP.com on Oracle.

Oracle also offers technology integration of solutionsthat complements your SAP implementation.

Three out of four SAP R/3 customers chooseOracle as the underlying database. With over16,000 joint customers who count on the techno-logy partnership between Oracle and SAP, we arecommitted to your success, both now and in thefuture.

The InternetChanges Everything

3000 SD SAP mySAP.com UsersFujitsu Siemens on Oracle, 64 CPU, 300 MHzCrossing

Benchmark running SAP R/3 4.0Bin Client/Server Configuration onSun Starfire Enterprise 10000

Oracle and Sun set record

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Oracle Fail Safe, High Availability Solution for NT

Oracle Support Services for SAP Customers

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SAP R/3 is available with Oracle8i 64-bit database

technology. The 64-bit technology enables com-puter systems to be faster and be more manage-able. Available on a number of hardware systems,this technology also enables customers to increasetheir database size to multiple terabytes. Becauseof added memory capacity, the number of con-current users allowed to run against the databaseincreases exponentially as well.

The benefits of 64-bit system and database tech-nology are now automatically available to theR/3 application. As a result, the R/3 application onOracle8 64-bit is faster and even more scalablethan on a 32-bit database.

Providing the 64-bit database technology for SAP

R/3 is another outstanding milestone in the

12 year technology relationship between SAP

and Oracle,

said Gary Bloom, executive Vice President ofSystems Products at Oracle. Again, Oracle istaking the lead in making the latest databasetechnology available to an important set ofcustomers.

The 64-bit technology allows more business datato be stored in main memory by leveraging the64-bit client libraries of Oracle8i. This is of par-ticular interest within the SAP Supply ChainOptimization Planning and Execution (SAPSCOPE) initiative, where new reporting, fore-casting, planning and optimization functionalityentails processing of very large data volumes in

main memory. With SAP R/3 on 64-bit Oracle8i,SAP is providing customers the most innovativetechnology to allow real-time, high-volume pro-cessing of business data in main memory, statedKarl-Heinz Hess, Member of the ExtendedBoard of SAP AG. SAP R/3 with 64-bit Oracle8iis currently available with R/3 Release 3.1 and4.0, 4.5, 4.6, on Compaq Tru64 UNIX, HP UX11, IBM AIX 4.3 and Siemens Reliant UNIX,and Sun Solaris 7, BW Release 1.2 and 2.0.

The data warehouse is often the most strategicsystem of a company.

Efficient use of a data warehouse requires a data-

base system that is capable of managing andrapidly analyzing large quantities of data. Oracleis the undisputed technology and market leaderin the field of data warehousing, with 60% of theworlds data warehouse applications running onOracle databases. Simplified management is thekey to maintaining premium system performance,said Gerhard Kuppler, Director CorporateAccounts. The SAP Business Information Ware-house (SAP BW) is an independent compo-nent of the SAP Business Framework architec-ture. It is designed as an open solution and is de-livering Business Application ProgrammingInterfaces (BAPIs) for non-SAP data integrationand third party analysis tools. Oracle8i is thedevelopment database for the SAP BW.

This ensures use of the most advanced Oracle tech-nologies for SAP BW and guarantees optimumperformance. Some of the advanced features ofOracle8 that are available with SAP BW include:

Partitioning Bitmapped Indices Star Query Optimization Hash Join Optimization Cost Based SQL Optimizer- Parallel Query Technology- Parallel Access- Parallel Index Scan- Parallel Sorting- Parallel Table Structure with and without Log

- Parallel Index Rebuild- Index Organized Tables- Read Only Table Spaces- Dedicated Temporary Table Spaces- Variable Database Block Sizes up to 64KB- Materialized Views

Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/

builds on Oracle Enterprise Managerhost and database management infrastructure, making SAP environmenmuch easier to manage. Administratowill now be able to monitor differenR/3 platforms, R/3 databases and R/applications from one single consoleAll this results in lower administrativcosts and increased administrator productivity.

Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/3 allows focomprehensive monitoring and collection of datfrom multiple systems, extending its reach tprovide graphical monitoring of SAP R/3 applcation servers. It includes features for optimum

monitoring and deployment of R/3 across application servers, including collection and managemenof data relating to system performance animmediate notification of potential problemthrough an advanced event system.

Three out of four SAP customers are running theiapplications on an Oracle database. In a 24xbusiness economy their systems run as near t100% as is possible with todays technology. Athe leading provider of non-proprietary missioncritical data management solutions, Oracle committed to help R/3 customers meet the chalenge of 99.95% availability, and will continuto expand its data management offerings tallow these customers to take advantage of thlatest advances in mission critical computing.

SAPs continuing strategy of closer R/3 integratiowith Oracle technology will enable mySAP.comusers to benefit from Oracles ground-breakinInternet computing technologies. With Oracle astrategic technology provider, SAP customercan be sure that their systems will remain highavailable, scalable and manageable no mattewhich computing environment they opt for.

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In response to the need for high availability intodays mission critical environments, Oracle andits partners introduce Oracle Parallel Fail Safe, ahigh availability database solution providing thehighest levels of database availability within anopen systems environment. The companies arecommitted to becoming a strategic partner foryour most critical applications.

Benefits

Achieve highest levels of availability for mis-sion critical applications

Simplify vendor management and eliminatefinger-pointing with integrated support

Leverage the experience of high availability

experts to build mission critical proceduresand processes

Key Features

Fully tested mission critical database/serverconfigurations

Oracle failover software to monitor systemavailability and intelligently control failover

Implementation of best practices for missioncritical environments

Integrated support, both proactive and reactive

Oracle Parallel Fail Safe solution integrates thebest high availability technology from Oracle,with the best high availability technology of your

systems vendor, technology alone does not ensurea mission critical system.

Technology

The foundation for Oracle Parallel Fail Safe is acluster of Unix servers, intelligent and reliablestorage, and the Oracle database with OracleParallel Server. This foundation includes Oraclefailover software that integrates with the systemvendors cluster framework to quickly and auto-matically recover from failures should they occur.

Oracle Parallel Server enables the Oracle data-base to run concurrently on both systems in thecluster. The high availability solution uses thistechnology to connect all clients to one Oracleinstance in normal operation. In the event of afailure, Oracle failover software and the clusterframework will detect the problem and gracefullyswitch over clients to the second Oracle instance,ensuring continued database service. These con-figurations are fully qualified and rigorouslytested to ensure there are no incompatibilitiesthat may disrupt normal operation. They havebeen designed to quickly and automatically recoverfrom any single common failure, includinghardware, operating system, listener, or Oracle

instance faults.

Oracle Parallel Fail Safe implements the followingmethodology to provide the highest levels ofavailability:

Prevention: fully tested and validated con-figurations have been subjected to a full com-plement of fault injection tests to ensure servicerecover, from all types of faults within theexpected recovery window.

Detection: enhanced database monitors verifythe liveliness of the database, and ensure usersare able to access business functions. Thesemonitors detect all classes of failures, and candifferentiate between types of failures allowing

the cluster to determine how best to recoverfrom a specific failure

Diagnostics Capture: intelligent diagnosticscapture preserves relevant system state for laterdiagnosis of the problem. Since dumping systemstate on large systems can be quite time consu-ming, this greatly speeds recovery withoutsacrificing diagnosability.

Service Resumption: faststart checkpointinggreatly reduces database recovery time.

Parallel Fail Safe also optimizesclient reconnections throughpre-connected secondaryconnections and eliminatesconnection timeouts via IP

address migration.

Offline Analysis: onceservices are restored, diagno-stics state captured beforefailover can be used to per-form root cause analysis anprevent reoccurence of thefailure.

IT Process & Services

Adequate preparation to incorporate mission crtical processes and procedures is critical for anhigh availability environment. Oracle ParalleFail Safe includes specific best practices, designeand tested in the Oracles high availability labto help achieve the best possible availability fromyour system. High availability training for all youkey personnel is also available. Consultants, specializing in high availability implementations, ar

available to assist in developing processes anprocedures appropriate for the specific IT environment. They will also validate the environmento ensure that the solution will experience maxmum availability.

Support

Oracle and its systems vendor partners havdeveloped integrated support services specificalfor high availability customers. Experts from ouhigh availability solution center are ready tassist you to diagnose and resolve problems tminimize any effect on services to end-user customers. Integrated call management for any problem encountered with the system, storage o

database allows problems to be resolved withoufirst determining responsibility for the problemMake one call, and the partnership will take responsibility for fixing the problem.

Summary

Oracle Parallel Fail Safe includes the latest technologies to provide the highest levels of availabilitfor your database server. However, a mission crtical solution is more than just technology. Iincludes a suite of services, consulting assistancand support, which when combined give assurance that the solution will meet up-time requrements. You require systems and service providerwho understand high availability, IT environmen

and challenges. You need a service provider whpartners with your IT team and with other vendors to deliver seamless and timely supporWith Oracle Parallel Fail Safe, Oracle and itpartners have built upon years of collaboration tform an alliance designed to address these need

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E-Business is the talk of the day. While many

proclaim to offer such solutions, few understandthe complexities involved and the requirementsthat it entails. E-business goes beyond offeringe-commerceweb based salessolutions. Imple-mentation of a successful e-business strategy requi-res a business model transformation based onintegrated front-end (CRM) and back-end (ERP)applications. By offering the Oracle ApplicationsInterConnect 3i, and the Oracle CRM Pack forApplications InterConnect 3i, Oracle is uniquelypositioned to support you in developing andimplementing a successful e-business strategy.While the former product offers you the capabilityto build a robust e-business infrastructure, thelatter contains the pre-packaged integrationmappings for Oracle CRM applications

for an out-of-the-box integration with your SAP

R/3 and mySAP.com enterprise applications.

The Oracle Applications InterConnect 3i is acomprehensive and flexible set of applicationsthat enable you to seamlessly integrate your SAPR/3 applications with the Oracle CRM suite.The easy-to-use wizard-based visual tooliStudioguides you through the integration process andprovides the flexibility needed to make the chan-ges necessary when you have tailored your SAPapplications to your business needs. The iStudiotool facilitates all aspects of the modeling and in-tegration process from specifying the transforma-tion to setting-up information flows. The net resultis a seamless and reliable integration that assuresmaximum uptime while significantly reducing

the integration costs and complexities comparedto a project based consulting engagement.

As a complementary product, Oracle also offersthe Oracle CRM Pack for ApplicationsInterConnect 3i to help you expand markets andretain profitable customers. By deploying OracleCRM directly into your enterprise, you realizethe full benefits of a customer-centric approachto doing business. The Oracle CRM suite offersthe industrys most comprehensive set of applica-tions, sales, marketing, service, business intelli-gence, designed to enable you to build a successfule-business practice. This end-to-end and closedloop process ensures a near realtime customerresponse and enables you to successfully gathercustomer intelligence through multiple channelsof communication, including face-to-face, callcenter, and the web. You are then able to sharethat information with the entire organization togain a true 360 degrees view of strategic selling.By combing high-touch with hightech, you willbe able to better service your customers, predicttheir behaviors and needs, reduce operationalcosts, and improve your revenue and profit.

Compaq and SAP have jointly developed a testpackage for SAP Business Information Warehouse(SAP BW). This tightly integrated data warehousingsolution is built around an Oracle database.

Immediately available on the German market,this trial deployment shows SAP customers howthey can gain maximum value from existing datarepositories at the click of a mouse.For a low price, companies receive a six-week testlicense for SAP BW and an Oracle database. Theoffer includes Compaq ProLiant Servers and fivedays consulting.

SAP BW is seamlessly integrated in the SAP R/3business software. Open interfaces ensure smoothconnectivity with external information sources.This end-to-end data warehousing solution gathersdata across the entire enterprise, refines it andpresents it in predefined templates geared to theneeds of individual user groups.

The test is divided into three phases. A workshopis held to present the SAP BW Ready-to-Runsolution and define the target results. The secondphase involves installing the Compaq ProLiantServers, deploying the SAP software and confi-guring the Oracle database. During this phase,experienced SAP BW consultants work closelywith the project team to create individualizedreports based on the customer's live data. Afterfour days of on-site consulting, a live demo isheld to present the project results. During thecourse of the entire project, SAP BW consultantsactively support IT managers and users involved.

SAP, Compaq and Oracle have an outstandingtrack record in jointly developing solutionstailored to customers individual requirements.This new exclusive SAP BW Ready-to-Runinitiative presents executives with the perfectopportunity to assess the value of accurate, fastinformation in a dynamic business environment.The test deployment quickly pays for itself as theinformation derived during the test can beimmediately applied to the strategic task ofdecision support.

from Page 1In this benchmark only 12 Starfire servers and anEnterprise Server 4500 where sufficient to achi-ve a world record performance; a small configu-ration in comparison to the more than 160 serverused for the former benchmark record, done byIBM in 1999.

For more information contact Sun or Oracle atSAPPHIRE 2000.

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Compaq on SAPTest package for SAPBusiness InformationWarehouse

SAPPHIRE 2000Oracle and Compaq 2,720 SD Benchmarkusers with a single 32 processor system

Oracle and Sun set record

With this impressive demonstration of benchmarkperformance, Oracle and Compaq have onceagain proven that the best choice for customersrequiring scalability and performance can be found

in the combination of Oracle's leading databasetechnology and Compaq's Alpha processor archi-tecture. Achieving 2,720 SD Benchmark userswith a single 32 processor system, this bench-mark yields the same performance in a s ingle ser-ver, that required a complex three-tier systemonly a few years ago. Furthermore, it illustratesthe fact that most SAP customer productionloads can now be handled by a single server, pro-vided, of course, that the customer selects thisdatabase and server combination. This may becompared with the recently published SAP 4.0Bresult of only 1708 SD benchmark users achievedby IBM utilizing their top-of-the-range S80 serverin combination with their own DB2 database.

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Braun GmbH, part of the Gillette group, hasbeen implementing SAP R/3 as its businesssoftware platform throughout the company since1995. R/3 is now being used by over 1,300 endusers in twelve European countries.Implementation of R/3 as the business softwarein the Gillette group as a whole commenced in1997. At the beginning of 1999 it seemed as iftechnological barriers might hinder further rolloutin the group but the problem was solved with64-bit technology. For Braun, this 64-bittechnology means a completely new, robustplatform on the basis of existing HP equipment.It meets all requirements to move forward withthe SAP R/3 rollout in the Gillette group.

Braun: Leading in quality and design

Throughout the world people associate the nameBraun with innovative products, premium qualityand unique design. Worldwide market leadershipin various product lines including oral careappliances, shavers, epilators, infrared earthermometers and hand blenders documentsthe attractiveness of Brauns products. The com-pany, which is headquartered in Kronberg nearFrankfurt, achieves annual sales of approximatelythree billion marks with a workforce of 9,000employees. Since 1967 Braun has been a part of

the Gillette group, one of the worlds leadingbrand makers with annual sales of over ten billiondollars.

Optimization program: Implementation with R/3As part of its corporate strategy Braun launchedan enterprise program in 1994 in order to improveits business processes. This program aimed toguarantee the companys success in global com-petition and help it to respond more quickly toan environment that was becoming increasinglydynamic. A business consultancy was chargedwith examining and analyzing Brauns existingprocesses, and with developing ways of improving

them. The results have been implemented instages. Braun opted for SAP R/3 as the softwareto support its redesigned business processes.

Rollout of R/3 in stages

The rollout of R/3 started early in 1995 with apilot project in the Nordic countries. Thisproject was completed, and was followed byother implementations in stages. About 1,300users in all are now operating with SAP R/3 intwelve European countries.

The infrastructure that Braun needed to run R/3was planned and implemented in conjunction

with Hewlett-Packard (HP) and SAPs technicalconsulting service. The projects are supported byan extensive R/3 landscape consisting of systemsfor development, consolidation, testing, trainingand production. To organize and coordinate theSAP infrastructure and applications, Braun setup an SAP customer competence center whichwas certified by SAP in November 1998 one ofthe few to receive this recognition in Germany.R/3 has been introduced throughout the Gillettegroup since 1997, and Braun in Kronberg iscoordinating these group activities for Europe.The objective is to integrate all activities in anoverall European R/3 solution.

Major role of technologyTechnological aspects in the demanding R/3environment play a major role at Braun and inthe entire Gillette group. The European R/3systems are operated and supported centrally atKronberg where Braun is headquartered. Thehardware environment of the production SAPsystem consists of an HP V2250 database serverwith several HP application servers from theV2250, T600 and K580 series. In the meantime,the Oracle database has grown to over 450 giga-bytes.

Bottlenecks threatened to hinder the rollout

Despite the powerful system resources that were

available, technological barriers threatened tohinder the further rollout of R/3 in the group atthe beginning of 1999. Resources were limitedunder the 32-bit HP UX 10.20 operatingsystem, allowing a maximum of just 1.75 GB ofshared memory to be allocated. This technologywas no longer able to support concurrent useractivity in an adequate manner or keep up withconstantly growing database performance require-ments.

Braun noticed the impending bottleneck in mid-1998 as a result of regular SAP Early Watch sessions. The only conceivable solution seemed to

be to expand the available address space anmake use of this enhancement.

64-bit technology solved the problem

Collaborating closely with SAPs technical consultancy service and the platform technologgroup, Braun launched a project with a view timplementing SAP R/3 on the basis of 64-btechnology in order to solve this problem. In thmiddle of 1998 work started on migrating aservers to the 64-bit HP UX 11.0 operatingsystem.

Simply installing HPs technological platformwas not sufficient, however. The applicatiosystems running on it also had to be capable oallocating the large address space that the 64-bitechnology supports.

As a 64-bit version, Oracle 8.0.5 has met thesrequirements since December 1998. SAP R/did not cause any difficulties in this respect either. When production operations with SAP R/Release 4.0B began in August 1998, Braun waone of the first pilot users to satisfy all requirements for testing the 64-bit version of the businessoftware on the 64-bit HP UX 11.0 platform.

Surprising test results: Huge boost in

performance

Thorough tests with SAP R/3 on a 64-bit baswere carried out at Brauns site over a period ojust six weeks. Initially, these tests covered basifunctions such as system calls, parameterization, and monitors and communication witconnected subsystems such as EDI, fax, archiving and batch scheduling. These tests were primarily geared to functionality and stabili ty. Tesof representative application processes were thecarried out in a second stage. Here, the focus waon performance with the 64-bit R/3 technologas well as on the actual addressability of memor

The tests resulted in a positive surprise. Afte

slight difficulties getting started, operationbased on 64-bit HP UX 11.0 with Oracle 8.0.and SAP R/3 4.0B turned out to be robust. Aexpected, the extended address space coulactually be used and the systems capacity thandle concurrent user activity was increasesignificantly. Also as expected, database performance was boosted as a result of larger buffeareas. The greatest surprise for Braun, howevewas the massive rise in performance of testeapplication processes on the application serverThis rise averaged 30% in the areas of Sales (SDControlling (CO), Finance (FI) and MaterialManagement (MM).

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Change is the order of the day as European energymarkets open ever wider, a huge effort is requiredto maintain competitiveness. To retain its positionin the market, Rheinbraun AG has put greatvalue on promoting the global development ofits core competencies in mining and raw materials

as well as on exploiting to the full all the potentialexisting within the enterprise. This offers anideal opportunity for DP to be involved instreamlining working procedures and ensuringquality, thus helping to raise competitiveness.

Gentle giants move with clockwork precisionand reliability

Rheinbraun relies on the most colossal mobileearth-moving machines ever built to help providearound 15 per cent of energy supplied inGermany. With its headquarters in Cologne,Rheinbraun heads up the mining and raw mate-rials division of energy giant RWE AG, of whichit is a subsidiary. In the 1998/99 business year,its 11,300 employees achieved sales of 1.5 billioneuros.

Although Rheinbrauns fleet of machines con-sists of a manageable number of individualitems, their dimensions are out of this world.Every day, the bucket wheel excavators, whichcan be 240 meters long and almost 100 metershigh, extract 240,000 tons of lignite from open-cast mines. The vast majority of the coal extractedgoes straight to one of RWEs five nearby powerstations to be used to generate electricity. Giventhe huge quantities involved, it is not only just-in-time extraction and transportation that arerequired, but also a massive effort in planningand logistics. In terms of freight volume, thecompanys own works railway is the biggest railoperator in Germany.

Local production with global impact

Rheinbrauns 57 per cent share of total ligniteproduction in Germany makes it the countrysleading producer as well as the largest producerin its sector in the world.

A sophisticated enterprise with a wide diversity oftechnical operations, ranging from exploration fordeposits through production of the raw materialto recultivation of the land used, has a hugeamount of data to process. This processing mustbe readily compatible with standard business soft-ware.

This makes great demands on the expertise ofinhouse and external IT professionals. Rheinbraunsmain hardware partner is Hewlett-Packard,whereas for software it stands by its choice ofOracle and SAP.Back in mid-1993, the DP team headed byReinhard Schultheiss initiated a SAP project that

took account of market conditions existing at thetime and anticipated future developments. Thisproject has made a significant contribution tothe solidity and expansion of Rheinbraun. Some3,500 users in the Cologne head office and at 11private and associated group companies are nowable to take full advantage of the 66 million DMinvestment. Although the amount invested wasconsiderable, the undeniably greater efficiency ofa variety of DP-supported business procedures,processes and projects meant that payback wasachieved in just three years.

The overall system currently serves more than3,500 named users and around 1,000 concurrentusers. It includes three decentralized databases in

addition to the six SAP R/3 and eleven technicaldatabases under UNIX. The eleven technicaldatabase solutions, developed in-house, includethe control of everything needed to manage realestate and coal deposits, handle water resourcesand monitor waterways. In addition, the open-cast mining sites of Garzweiler, Hambach andInden have a total of 23 Oracle database systemsavailable running on NT.During the project period, the database grew by6GB per month on average to reach 200GB in

September 1999, more than 20 times the amountof data stored in January 1995. The system

is fully automated to perform the daily on-linebackup of the data held, after identification ofoff-peak periods. A transaction volume of 15 milliondialog steps per month is quite usual. Day/nightbalancing of the operational processes of the R/3units (such as dialog, batch, spool and update) iscompletely even, with a total of 138 processesduring daytime operation and the same numberduring night operation.

The hardware platform is based almost exclusi-vely on Hewlett-Packard computers and EMCdisk systems. Redundant dialog, batch, spooland update processes run on all servers.Reliability and maximum availability are alsotop priorities at Rheinbraun. For the purposes ofdisaster recovery, a system based on an HP T600platform is kept in reserve to back up the centraldatabase server (an HP V2200).

Should the primary server fail, it takes less than30 minutes to switch over to the backup serverfrom starting up the machine to live operation.

In day-to-day operations, the backup system alsotakes on a large number of tasks as an applicationserver, including bulk data tests in a developmentenvironment, runtime calculations, simulationsand quality assurance functions.

Project meets deadlines bang on target

Rheinbraun was particularly satisfied that theproject was carried out exactly according to schedulefrom start to finish. From project kick-off in 1993to cutover at the beginning of 1998, the 100 staffmembers divided into 20 project teams, supportedby a number of study groups and working parties,met every single deadline set, frequently beatingthem. The projects managers underlined twomain reasons for the smooth running of the project.In the first place, as an innovative first customerin the SAP/Oracle environment, Rheinbraun hadat its disposal a project team which could takeshort cuts in helping to design the new productsto be introduced. Secondly, there was no doubtingthe quality of Oracle database products and theexpertise on offer, backed up by advisers from theOracle/SAP Competence Center.

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System robustness, stability and global availability plus the value of

accepted standards these were major factors making it an easy decision

for Rheinbraun AG to opt for the products and services of Oracle, SAP and

Hewlett-Packard. Working in partnership with these companies,

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Globalization the most fashionable word intodays information society has long since passedinto standard vocabulary at the Bosch group.Bosch has been putting globalization into prac-tice for almost a century.

It was in the early 1900s that Bosch built its firstfactory in the United States, for example. Fiveyears after opening, the plants production capa-city had already overtaken that of its Europeanparent.

Today, the Bosch group has a truly internationalpresence with 250 subsidiaries and investee com-panies in a total of 48 countries. Productionalone is spread over 185 different locations. Themajority of these, 142 to be precise, are locatedoutside Germany.

The enterprise as a whole today is divided into fourbusiness sectors: automotive equipment, capitalgoods, consumer goods, and communicationstechnology.

At first, the main focus was on automotiveequipment, but Bosch has since established itself

on the global stage in a number of other boomingsectors as well. The product offering ranges fromthe familiar, including power tools, household

appliances, in-vehicle information systems, andeven packaging machinery, to less well-knownproducts in the areas of automation technologyand thermotechnology.

Global Standards for a Global Enterprise

In 1994, the Interdisciplinary Information Pro-cessing group (QI) was given the task of drawingup a set of economically viable standards to applywithout exception across the global Bosch Cor-porate Network and individual enterprise areas(production, development, and sales).

It quickly became clear thatkey IT objectives such as

increased system availabili-ty and scalability couldonly be achieved usingOracle database technology.

A Pilot Project with GlobalConsequences

That same year, 1994, saw theofficial kickoff of the pilotproject at Bosch Telecom inGermany to implement SAPsoftware on the basis of theOracle RDBMS.One year later, the solutionwas already up and running

with 300 users. Today, morethan ten times that number approximately 3500 namedusers in all draw on a poolof over 280 GB of data.

For Guenter Lehmann, Headof SAP Coordination in the

Interdisciplinary Information Processing group atRobert Bosch GmbH, the main factors in thedecision to acquire more Oracle RDBMS licenseswere worldwide availability, sophisticated func-

tionality, security against data loss due tunplanned downtimes, and absolute stabilitthat would remain unaffected by the large volumes of data we were expecting in the future.According to Lehmann, the decision was madeven easier when they also took into accoun

"the reliable support, the wide spectrum of SAPsoftware-related services, the fact that other solutionwere also possible on the Oracle platform, anfinally, the excellent value for money."

The contract signed in 1998 by Bosch anOracle raised the number of licenses groupwidto 40,000. These were urgently required for thplanned rollout in the plants. There are alread24,000 named SAP users productive worldwidat Bosch, and they use a variety of business components, including SAP FI, CO, MM, PP, SDHR, and BW. The individual installations rangin size from a typical 150 to 1,500 named useto, interestingly, very small systems with fewethan 50 users.

The largest systems serve 4000 named users.

A New Slimline Concept for a Better Overview

To regain an overview over the plethora of differenIT solutions in operation and consolidate theminto a smaller, more economically justifiabnumber of installations, Bosch developed theserver farm concept.

Three such server farms were set up, in premisoffering the required data center infrastructurone in Frankfurt, one in Stuttgart, and one in PariOne of their main tasks is to merge disparatindividual installations in a central location. Ithe interests of standardization, an imperativaim in the long term, if all decentralized busineprocesses are to be supported effectively, main

frame technology is being replaced by a clienserver architecture. Windows NT was chosenthe operating system.

The SAP Backup Concept at Bosch was deviseby experts from the Oracle/SAP CompetencCenter in Walldorf, Germany, in collaboratiowith Bosch development teams and meets all thlatest criteria for ensuring data consistency ansecurity against data loss. It is based on the highlreliable Oracle Hot Standby technology, whicsupports a continuous recovery operation thsaves an exact copy of the working database toseparate location in real time. Because the copy up-to-date at all times, normal business can bresumed very rapidly using the copy should an

disasters befall the working database.

Bosch is pursuing a clear strategy of standardiztion tempered with a policy of far-sighted flexbility. So there is still room to accommodatunforeseen developments in the IT sector, nonstandard solutions if they are more appropriain specific countries, and indeed other providerproducts. But there is one standard that is noopen for discussion: Oracle and its database technlogies are quite simply the de facto standard fothe Bosch group worldwide.

Bosch GroupOracle -The Global Database Standardfor the Bosch Group

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Information and communications technology, today the motor for globalization, is a field in which the Bosch group

has a great deal of experience and which will also drive the future expansion of the company. When selecting

external software partners, then, it was clearly important to choose companies whose products and services were

not only known in every corner of the globe, but were also renowned for their reliability and stability, and their

global support network and standards: Oracle and SAP.


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Challenges

Stabilize and reduce costs associated with run-ning the groups information systems.

Speed up process cycles and reduce process costs. Achieve Year 2000 compatibility.

Solution

Implement SAP R/3 on Oracle as a Europeanand world standard, replacing the wide varietyof systems used previously.

Standardize on the UNIX-based HP 9000

architecture as a platform for SAP R/3. Install 28 HP 9000 D-Class and K-Class

servers at the groups European data centre. Implement a storage area network, consisting

of 12 HP High Availability Disk Array Model30/FC storage systems.

Benefits

Improved first-pass yield and on-time delivery. Common, uniform product data that can be

accessed electronically. More effective coordination at a European level. Substantial cost savings anticipated.

Founded in 1874 in Lucerne, Switzerland,

Schindler has grown into the worlds leadingmanufacturer of escalators and one of the largestmanufacturers of elevators. Today, the group con-sists of over 100 companies and over 1,000 localbranches worldwide, with a combined annualturnover in the region of $4.5 billion. Every day,more than 500 million people are transported oninstallations manufactured by Schindler.

In 1995, Schindler decided to implement SAPR/3 on Oracle as a worldwide standard for enter-prise resource planning (ERP). In the past, avariety of SW and HW had been used in different

countries, including SAP R/2, BPCS, COPICSand in-house applications running on mainfra-mes, AS/400 systems, workstations and PCs.

"The HP 9000 platform is making a majorcontribution to the success of the SAP R/3

implementation through providing Schindler

with a combination of superior price/per-

formance, high reliability and competent

support. I am confident that the anticipatedcost savings will be realized."Peter Eschenmoser, Schindler Informatik AG

In Europe, for example, several of the largestcompanies used SAP R/2 running on IBM main-frame platforms.

Worldwide, the move to SAP R/3 on Oraclewas a response to several business challenges,notably the need to implement Year-2000-com-pliant software and a desire to speed up processcycles. SAP R/3 would provide Schindler withthe data-replication functionality it needed toimplement a common product data management

(PDM) system across all its subsidiaries. It wouldalso provide well-developed configuration func-tionality. In both these respects, SAP R/3 differedfrom the SAP R/2 solution used previously bymany European subsidiaries.

For these companies, another benefit of replacingSAP R/2 with SAP R/3 was the wider choice ofmodules and the broader functionality. Thiswould enable all software packages to be integratedinto a single application, rather than havingseparate interfaces to systems such as projectplanning, which were not covered by SAP R/2.

This, Schindler believed, would reduce softwarerunning costs, while the move to a commonUNIX platform would reduce computing costsgenerally.

In conjunction with the SAP R/3 on Oracleimplementation, we were looking to stabilize groupsinformation systems. Different Schindler companies used

all sorts of different hardware, from Intel to mainframe.We believed that we would make substantial savingsby replacing this diversity with a standard hardware

platform that could be implemented all over the worldsaid Peter Eschenmoser, head of SchindlerInformatik AG.

As a platform for SAP R/3 on Oracle implemen-tations worldwide, Schindlers steering committeechose the HP 9000 architecture. Schindler wasalready familiar with this architecture throughhaving standardized on the HP 9000 range ofworkstations for its computer-aided design(CAD) work. Schindlers experience with theseworkstations was a major factor in its choice ofHP hardware for the SAP R/3 project.

In the past, Schindler used mainly IBM mainframesand AS/400s, but we had started to use HP for CADand had been impressed by the quality and stability ofthe hardware. When we started to look for a UNIX

platform for SAP R/3 on Oracle, HP seemed the naturalchoice, commented Eschenmoser.

The SAP R/3 Implementation Zone Europe(SIZE) project is one of three regional projects,the others covering America and Asia Pacific. Itinvolves a total of 15 European Schindlercompanies, all of which are migrating to SAPR/3 on Oracle, leaving only the smallest sub-sidiaries continuing to use their existing systems.

SAP R/3 services in Europe are provided bySchindler Informatik, which is the groups infor-mation technology (IT) services company.Schindler Informatik occupies a purpose-built ITfacility at the groups world headquarters inEbikon, just outside Lucerne. According toEschenmoser, the company supports theimplementation and maintenance of SAP R/3applications by its customers as well as providingdata-center services for R/3 computing.

By January 1999, all the European subsidiariesinvolved in the SIZE project were using SAPR/3. Three of these companies had implementedthe new system using the so-called big-bangapproach, which involves abandoning legacysystems in favor of a single set of R/3 processes

across the company. Two of the companies arecomponent works (in Spain and Switzerland) andone is a field operation (in Switzerland). All of thempreviously used SAP R/2 running on SchindlerInformatiks IBM mainframe computer, whichwas taken out of operation in January 1999.

To support the implementation, a total of 28 HP9000 D-Class and K-Class servers have beeninstalled so far in Schindler Informatiks IT centerHP 9000 Model K570 and Model K580 serversare used as database servers for SAP R/3 on Oracle,with most of the application servers being

on Oracle

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HP 9000 Model D380 and Model K460 servers.All the SAP R/3 modules relevant to Schindlersoperations have been installed on these servers.HP OpenView has been adopted for network,system and print management.

The HP 9000 servers are connected to a storagearea network, which consists of 12 HP HighAvailability Disk Array Model 30/FC storagesystems with fibre-channel connectivity, managed

using the HP MC/ServiceGuard high-availabilitysolution. According to Eschenmoser, HP storagesystems were chosen because of their speed, flexi-bility and compatibility with a range of environ-ments. More than 3.2 Tb of data are now storedwithin the network, and can be transferred to andfrom the HP servers with a throughput of up to100 Mb/s. Tests have shown that only 7 minutesare needed for failover in the case of a serverproblem.

Schindler Switzerland, the largest SAP R/3 onOracle user, is based, like Schindler Informatik,at Ebikon. Here it runs an Ethernet-based localareanetwork (LAN), with PC clients used for SAPR/3. Most European Schindler companies are linked

with Schindler Informatik over a frame relaywide-area network (WAN), with each subsidiarysremote sites being linked to its headquartersusing fixed-line WANs. At the moment, over2,000 PCs are connected to the SAP R/3 onOracle system, with Schindler Switzerlandhaving about half of these. So far, the largestnumber of concurrent users recorded in this clusteris about 600.

On a European level, the main business benefits expected from the implementation of SAP R/3 on Oracle aremore streamlined, more efficient processes. Process costs

currently account for half the costs associated withSchindlers products, and we anticipate that SAP R/3 onOracle will enable us to reduce these costs substantially,commented Schindlers head of logistics, WillyWalker, who is in charge of the SIZE project.

The existence of common, uniform product datawill help to coordinate the activities of the differentSchindler companies, which will have electronicaccess to all the information they need. More

specifically, Schindler expects to be able to achie-ve a significantly higher first-pass yield with thenew system. In other words, fewer componentsdelivered by suppliers should need to be reorderedbecause they do not conform to the requiredspecification. Furthermore, improved first-passyield, in conjunction with faster processes allround,will lead to improved delivery times.

In the past, first-pass yield has sometimes been lessthan satisfactory, mainly because there was no easyway of checking the specifications issued to the suppliers.With SAP R/3, however, all speci fications are checked

automatically for consistency and conformance withconfiguration rules. Furthermore, the entire process,including the transfer of data to the supplier, can be

done electronically, explained Walker.

At the companies that have already implementedSAP R/3 as an enterprise-wide solution, it isproducing very positive results. After only a fewmonths use, the component plants in Zaragoza andLocarno, and Schindler Switzerland, are findingthat the quality of the data in SAP R/3 on Oracleis already as good as it was with the familiar R/2system, which had been gradually improved andperfected over a period of years. Both systemperformance and access to data are now rated asexcellent.

The HP 9000 platform is making a major contributito the success of the SAP R/3 on Oracle implementatithrough providing Schindler with a combination

superior price/performance, high reliability and compete support. I am confident that the anticipated csavings will be realised, concluded Eschenmoser

At a glance

Schindler AG.

Ebikon, near Lucerne, Switzerland. Founded 1874. Over 100 companies worldwide. 40,000 employees. Turnover around $4.5 bil lion. One of the worlds leading manufacturers

of escalators and elevators.

Industry

Design, manufacture, servicing andmodernization of elevators and escalators.

Technology highlights

SAP R/3 (all relevant modules). 20 HP 9000 K-Class and eight HP 9000

D-Class Enterprise Servers. Oracle 7.3/8.04 database. Storage area network consisting of 12 HP

High Availability Disk Array Model 30/FCstorage systems with fibre-channel connectivitand HP MC/ServiceGuard.

Over 2,000 PC clients. HP OpenView IT/Operations, Network

NodeManager and OpenSpool. Frame relay WAN linking European sub-

sidiaries with Schindler Informatik. Fixed-line WANs connecting remote sites t

company head offices. Ethernet-based local-area networks (LANs).

3000 SD SAP mySAP.com Users from Page 1This excellent result confirms the strong commercial

performance of our new GP7000F family of UNIXservers, clearly establishing the new SPARC/Solaris-based range as an ideal platform even for the mostdemanding enterprise applications, commentedDr. Joseph Reger, Vice President StrategicMarketing for Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Ofcourse, benchmarks are not just a matter of hard-ware performance, and this new record high-lights the real strength that Fujitsu SiemensComputers offers in the Enterprise arena. Wehave an unparalleled record of success in the SAPR/3 sector: we understand the performance andimplementation issues, and with our newGP7000F family we're clearly showing that ourSolaris-based platforms are setting the standardin the UNIX marketplace.

Don Haig, Vice President, Oracle Corporation:With such performance and the high availabilityfeatures of the Fujitsu Siemens platform andOracle8i, the critical demands of large scale SAPimplementations are readily satisfied. TheCompetence Centers of Fujitsu Siemens andOracle have worked closely in Walldorf to achie-ve this SAP certified world record benchmark.

In a 2-tier configuration the R/3 application andthe database share one central server. Fujitsu

Siemens Computers achieved the new SAP R/3Sales and Distribution SD benchmark on aGP7000F M2000 Server with 64 SPARC64GP processors-each equipped with an eight MBsecond level cache, running Solaris 7 operatingsystem and an Oracle 8.1.5 database. TheGP7000F system achieved an average dialog res-ponse time of 1.93 seconds for 3,000 SD users,with a throughput of 15,080 SAPS and 301,670fully processed order line items per hour.Processor utilization of the system was 99 percent, and it featured 60 GB main memory and1.38 TB hard disk capacity.

The SAP R/3 Sales and Distribution benchmarkis the most popular and important member of

the SAP standard application benchmarks, simu-lating typical concurrent business transactions ofSAP's R/3 sales and distribution component.The benchmark has been developed by SAP, as ameans of measuring and comparing the R/3 per-formance across different hardware platforms anddifferent R/3 releases. The benchmark emulatescustomer scenarios. In a two-tier configurationthe R/3 application and the database share onecentral server. An additional server is used as aterminal emulator system handling input, outputprocessing and think times of the virtual users.

The Fujitsu Siemens Computers GP7000F rangescales from the single processor M200 model to the

new 64-way M2000 system, and brings mainfrme-levels of high availability with levels of up t99.999 per cent. The family features powerfuSPARC64 processors, which have been optimzed for enterprise computing, and run the Solaroperating system which guarantees 100 per cenwith more than 12,000 Solaris applications worldwide.

Data of the Benchmark:

Number of benchmark users: 3,000 SD(Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.93 seconds

Throughput: 15,080 SAPS (905,000 dialog steps/h

Equivalent to (line items/hour): 301,670 processe

order line itemsAverage DB request time (seconds): 0.060 (dialog)0.096 (update)

CPU utilization central server: 99%

Operating System central server: Solaris 7

RDBMS: Oracle 8.1.5

R/3 Release: 4.0 B

Total disk space: 1,383 GB

Configuration:

1 Central Server: Fujitsu Siemens GP 7000FM2000, 64-processors SMP, Sparc64 300 MHz8 MB Second Level Cache, 60 GB main.10

Breaking the3000 SD user

threshold in a 2 tierenvironment is greatnews for companies

implementing SAPR/3,

Don Haig, Vice President,Oracle Corporation.


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Builder

High availability is one of the key demands ofSAP R/3 customers regardless of the hardwareand operating system used. As the central nodeof the R/3 systems three-tier architecture, thedatabase server plays an important role in highavailability and fail-safe operations. Oracle offersan excellent high availability solution, calledOracle Fail Safe, to companies which run theirR/3 applications on NT.

The foundation for setting up a failsafe databaseserver system on NT is to configure two NT serversas two nodes of a cluster. Each of the two nodespossesses its own, dual-ported disk sub-system,to which each node has exclusive access duringnormal operations. An Oracle Fail Safe R/3 con-

figuration defines one of the two nodes as theproduction system, to which all the R/3 applicationservers are connected. The second node of thecluster serves as the fail-safe node, but can alsoperform other tasks in the meantime.

In case of failure of the production database server,Oracle Fail Safe immediately switches all neces-sary resources from the production node to thesecondary cluster node, and restarts the Oracleinstance there. The R/3 application servers auto-matically establish a new database connection toOracle instantly on the failsafe node, withoutrequiring intervention by the end-user or databaseadministrator.

We are pleased with the high availability,robustness and ease of use of the Oracle Fail Safe database solution. In SAP stress testswith up to 300 users, the Oracle8i Fail Safedatabase was up in a minute after both plan-ned and unplanned failovers,

said Karl-Heinz Hess, Member of the Extendedboard of SAP AG. SAP customers immediatelybenefit from this highly-available, cost-effectivesolution. Oracle Fail Safe is included in everyOracle database license for R/3 on NT fromOracle7 Release 7.3.3 onwards, and is supportedfrom R/3 Release 3.1G and later , including R/3Release 4.0, 4.5 and 4.6 with Oracle8i.

40,000 Linux Developers running on Oracle8i

As part of the previously announced OraclePartner Program First-to-Market initiative forindependent software vendors (ISVs), SAP haschosen the Oracle dataserver as one of theirmajor Linux database platforms. Intensive testsat SAP with Oracle8i on Linux have confirmedOracles position as the leading provider of data-base products for the ERP market. The availability

of Oracle8i for SAP R/3 on Linux will allowcustomers to choose a proven alternative operatingsystem for their Intel-based database servers. Itexpands the scalability of their SAP environment,and increases performance and high availability.

For an Oracle Linux CD register at http://tech-net.oracle.com

Oracle offers extensive R/3 database services for

SAP customers. The expertise available has beendeveloped through day-to-day work with R/3solutions at SAP, and it ensures that you receivethe best possible support for running your R/3solution smoothly. Through the Oracle Center ofExcellence for SAP, Oracle Services offers acomprehensive set of services including coretechnology consulting, workshops, migration andintegration services.

Core Technology Consulting offers expertise inthe areas of performance optimization, OracleParallel Server, hot standby databases, table setupand reorganization especially for management ofvery large databases, and backup/restore/recoveryfor mission critical systems. Workshop themes

include R/3 specific standard and customizedtraining for database administrators.

Migration Services are available for companieswhich want to migrate their SAP R/3 installationfrom a non-Oracle database to Oracle.

Integration Services provide tools and servicesfor accessing R/3 data. Customers can create data-base links to access R/3 tables from other appli-cations. The Oracle Center of Excellence for SAPhas also created an interface to connect directly tothe R/3 applications, enabling customers toconstantly write to and read from the database.This interface is called the Oracle TransactionalBridge for SAP.

The Oracle Warehouse Integrator (OWI) for

SAP R/3 provides an easy-to-use interface to theSAP data repository, integrating the R/3 systemas a data source for the Oracle warehouse Builder.

Customers can utilize the full range of Oraclewarehousing technology, while taking advantageof SAP-certified interfaces to access R/3 metadataand generate SAP-certified BAPI calls and SQLcode to extract data from SAP R/3.

The OWI for SAP R/3 enables customers to: View the SAP data-dictionary providing acc-

ess to English definitions of table and columnnames from the original German-languageabbreviations

Browse SAP's Business Objects Repository

(BOR) Extract, using the Remote Function Call facility Support SAP's BAPIs

Using metadata-driven design and generation,the OWI for SAP R/3 reduces the risk, cost andtime required to develop and maintain extractsfrom SAP for an Oracle data warehouse.

Leveraging the Performance and Scalability ofOracle8i

A data warehouse capable of providing quality

analysis for the kind of Business Intelligence andDecision Support necessary to enhance your com-petitive position relies on both scalability andperformance. Oracle8i offers both features, conti-nuing the tradition of ongoing advancement inanticipation of marketplace demands, and theever-increasing requirements of data warehousing.

Now you can leverage Oracle8is new functiona-lity in several major areas directly related to thedemands of data warehousing, among them:

Summary Management Performance Improvements Data Management Data-Movement Infrastructure.

for NT Oracle Fail Safefor SAP

High Availability Solution

Servicesfor SAP CustomersOracle Support Services

Integrator for SAP R/3

Oracle Warehouse Builder

LinuxOracle on LinuxOracle8ifor Linux forSAP R/3 available


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Oracle and Bull announced an outstanding new performance record in the 24-processor SMPenvironment with its servers, another example of the active collaboration in this field between Bulland Oracle. Comparing two systems identical in HW, OS, SAP R/3 release, differing only in thedatabase, shows that Oracle only needs half the CPU resources than other database systems andgives back this free resources to the SAP R/3 software to run more users.

SAP R/3 with Oracle: 1825 SD user = 73,5% SAP R/3 CPU utilisation

SAP R/3 CPU utilisation for 1708 SD user = ~ 68,5%

CPU utilisation:

* Measurement from SAP reports for benchmark certification** Calculated (see above)*** Competition DB-Time: Total Syst - System - R/3 = 99% - 15% - 68,5% = 15,5%

With this 1,826 Sales and Distribution user benchmark, Bull demonstrated best skill and strongleadership in SAP R/3 environments by choosing the right database.

For more details please visit Oracle and Bull at SAPPHIRE Berlin.

73,5 * 1708

1826

Oracle:Competition:

Database

8,5%*15,5%***

SAP R/3

73,5% *68,5%**

System

17%*15%*

Total

99%*99%*

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