Server Performance Realization

Deploying SAP into a complex environment that supports many applications can be full of unexpected challenges. Today’s application owners are often unable to predict how their SAP systems will behave under normal and peak usage.  Compuware’s Server Performance Realization service lets you to feel confident when making upgrades or enhancements to your SAP application or the supporting system environment.  By ensuring that the system will perform at user acceptable response times, we provide the information you need to accurately determine when upgrades are necessary to support your business-critical SAP users. 

Description

Compuware combines experienced IT professionals with the strengths of QACenter Performance Edition, Compuware’s premier application load testing tool, to confidently deliver the Server Performance Realization service offering. The software is easy to implement, which allows our IT professionals to focus on using QACenter to develop, record and playback thousands of virtual user scripts. These professionals create accurate production simulations and easily measure the performance and scalability of the application.

QACenter Performance Edition creates baseline test data and variable transaction data, enabling an effective and repeatable load testing process. The tool has built-in server analysis agents and centralized collection and analysis of performance data that allows you to pinpoint and resolve performance problems across an entire application. This gives you the critical information you need to go live with confidence.

Benefits

Many variables affect the performance of SAP in a complex environment. Using the Server Performance Realization service offering allows you to identify production transaction issues, along with potential bottlenecks before they reach the production environment. Performance problems can be identified across all tiers of the application. Plans for adequate hardware and infrastructure capacity or changes to the system configuration can be made in a timely fashion. Through this in-sight into your application, you can assure that you will be experiencing the full-potential of your SAP investment prior to production. Most importantly, this service provides management with the confidence that the SAP system meets business requirements and end user expectations alike.

Deliverables

For each business transaction, you will receive a response time metric that can be correlated with server resource metrics. This allows you to determine server bottlenecks that degraded performance during the various testing scenarios. The information gathered from this test can then be used to plan for adequate hardware and infrastructure requirements for the SAP production system.

Duration

Four or more weeks - tailored to meet the specific needs of the customer.