Quick Sizer
Determining Your 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.
An Economically Balanced System
Sizing is brought to your desktop via an
online application. Quick Sizer provides
up-to-date sizing information and guides
you through a structured questionnaire.
The business requirements are stated
as simple business-oriented 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.
Requirements with Quick Sizer
Business-Oriented, Proven,
Cost-Effective Sizing
The performance requirements of SAP® With Quick Sizer, you can enjoy the
solutions are usually defined by the busi­ following benefits:
ness requirements. Hardware and sys­ • Simplified sizing – free of charge –
tem performance, however, is measured based on business-oriented figures
by technical performance indicators. • Verification of sizing made by partners
Matching these funda­men­tally different or customers (the tool is part of the
performance figures is the goal of the sizing plausibility check)
sizing process (see the following figure). • Online, up-to-date sizing algorithms
To this end, the information provided by based on the SAP Standard
Quick Sizer can help you select the Application benchmarks
hardware and system platform needed • Proven sizing methodology
to meet your business requirements. • Close cooperation with SAP
technology partners
SAP Technology Hardware configuration Customer
Partners
• Certified benchmarks on Expectations from sizing
scalable hardware • Optimal performance
• Performance studies Sizing recommendation • Suggestion for hardware
• Custom load tests in • CPU (SAPS) configuration
collaboration with • Memory (MB)
customers • Database space (MB) Contributions
• Disk I/O operations • Throughput requirements
per sec • Provides business data
input
Feedback and SAP Feedback and
experience experience
Quick Sizer
• Standard sizing guide­
lines as part of quality
Technical assurance process Business
requirements • Sizing verification requirements
processes
Figure: The Sizing Process

Sizing Methods
Quick Sizer uses two independent
sizing approaches: user-based and
throughput-based. For small busi­ness­es,
the user-based 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 throughput-based sizing is
recommended. Beside the number of
users, additional information about the
number of business processes and
business objects is used.
The Result: A Balanced Set of
Needed Hardware Components
SAP’s 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.
1. 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 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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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.
For More Information
If you are a prospect and would like to
use the Web-based sizing tool Quick
Sizer, contact your SAP sales repre­
sentative. If you are already using SAP
solutions, go to http://service.sap.com
50 028 963 (10/01)
/quicksizing to start using the tool ©2010 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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