E-Business Suite Performance & Benchmarks

3. E-Business Suite Performance & Benchmarks

4. Why Should We Care About Performance and Benchmarks? • Customers Demand Systemsthat Perform • Benchmarks are Both a Proof Point and a Sizing Tool

5. What is Performance? The behavior of a given system under certain conditions. Performance is always relative to some measure, which may be quantitative or qualitative. System performance encompasses, throughput, efficiency, scalability, and availability. Performance Needs to be Both Designed-In and Implemented-In

6. What is Benchmark? An experiment that provides one perspective on performance and confidence in a given configuration. Not a Solution in Itself

7. The timely and efficient creation of information from data, so that itmeets expectations Need for confidencethat system will performto expectations and requirements Need for a reference point for system configuration Return on investment in hardware and software Business Drivers Performance Benchmarks

8. Current Approach When dealing with performance and benchmarks, very often the approach is to: • Defer to the hardware vendor • Apply more hardware to the problem

9. The Oracle Solution

10. Oracle E-Business Solution Develop Sell Plan HR Finance Projects Market Procure Service / Maintain Manufacture Fulfill • Architecture • Security • Admin & Mgmt • Configuration vs. Customization • High-Availability & Scalability • Business Intelligence • Performance & Benchmarks • Integration • Sizing • Portal

11. Oracle’s Approach to Benchmarking and Performance Customers work with… • Oracle • Implementation partner • Hardware partner Use the Standard E-Business Suite Benchmark to establish common metrics to accurately measure the performance of the E-Business Suite for Oracle, customers, and partners. …to arrive at a configuration of hardware and software that will meet their performance criteria.

12. Oracle’s Approach to Benchmarking and PerformanceA Multi-Faceted Approach • Published Benchmark Information • Extensive Internal Testing • Oracle Consulting Services • Hardware Partnerships • E-Business Suite Outsourcing

13. Published Benchmark Information Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark • Focuses on ERP applications • Simulates realistic customer scenarios by selecting most commonly used Oracle Applications modules • Uses realistic benchmark loads • Transactions that compose the benchmark load are definedvia collaboration with implementation consultants • Representative of typical customer workloads, with both OLTP and batch components http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark

14. Published Benchmark Information Product Benchmarks

15. Extensive Internal TestingDevelopment Focus on Performance • ApplicationsDevelopment • ServerTechnologies

16. Oracle Consulting Services Has extensive experience in sizing and performance Consultants have direct access to latest Oracle information OracleConsultingServices

17. Hardware PartnershipsBenchmarking Centers of Excellence and more...

18. Hardware PartnershipsBenchmarking Centers of Excellence

19. Outsourcing E-Business Suite Outsourcing Leave system performance to the Company and the people that designed the software

20. Customer Adoption

21. Customer Testimonials “Particularly in banking, high performance and utter reliability are critical system requirements. Our benchmark shows that Oracle can reliably deliver one of the world's largest general ledgers and still fulfill our stringent requirements for performance.” “Oracle's scalability has taken much of the pain out of QLogic's growth... The Oracle Database server provides a scalable and robust environment that compliments QLogic's growth.” -- Dean Anderson, Dir. of Apps Dev.,QLogic -- Thierry Schaffluetzel, Proj. Dir., GEAR CH,UBS Switzerland “Oracle has simplified our business practices and will meet our needs for scalability and performance as we continue to grow.” “Oracle delivers flexibility and scalability, their applications are mature, and they're here to stay.” -- Doug Reynolds, Info Svcs Leader,Best Buy Co. -- John Black, VP of Info Svcs, Papa John's International

22. Case Study: 2 Terabyte General Ledger Running on Oracle Primary benchmark goal was to validate overall performance.Several performance criteria were defined and tested: • Data Load: Import and post at least 10M postings in less than 1 hour • Month End: Perform a "period open" in less than 12 hours (transfer 500M balances into the next month) • Daily Extract: Extract 500M balances in less than 60 minutes and calculate the daily balance sheet of the bank by cost center in less than 30 minutes UBS Benchmark made these assumptions: • 500M postings per month • 500M balances per month • 26 segments in the account key

23. Case Study: (Cont’d) • Imported and posted 11.42M journals per hour • Period Open on 500M balances in 11 hours and 8 minutes • Extracted 500M balances (including the merge of 26 dimension values) in 48 minutes • Generated the daily balance sheet on the base of500M balances in 23 minutes Impressive Benchmark Results

24. Analyst Testimonial For many companies, poor performance stalls user adoption during the rollout phase…Oracle distinguished itself in having the highest performing portal product in complex and distributed deployments. – AMR Research

25. Questions & Myths

26. Customer Questions Use the published Benchmarks as a starting point. Then work with Oracle, our hardware partners and your implementer. The combined knowledge and experience of the team will help you arrive at the appropriate configuration. Question: How do I know that the system will perform with the hardware I choose? Answer:

27. Customer Questions Running benchmarks is a complex, time consuming and expensive exercise. Oracle therefore does not recommend that customers run their own benchmarks, but rather rely on the data produced by our hardware partners. There are, however, some customers (very few) that run their own benchmarks. Question: Can I run my own benchmark? Answer:

28. Benchmark Myth TPC-Cs and TPC-Ds are good capacity and performance predictors for my project. • It doesn’t address the different possibilities for workload variance. • Industry standard benchmarks simply don’t bear a close enough resemblance to most real-life workloads to provide a useful performance correlation. Use industry-standard benchmarks only for their intended purpose: to compare the performance of hardware or software vendors’ products on as “level” a playing field as you will probably find. Myth: There is no reliable conversion formula that will allow you to translate a TPC benchmark workload into an equivalent workload for a real-life application. Reality:

29. Permanent Satisfaction Myth Once a system is sized and tuned, it should meet the performance goals of the project. Myth: Performance management requires continual commitment to diagnosis and problem resolution, resource management, application optimization, and capacity planning. The commitment may cease only when the application system is decommissioned. Reality:

30. Summary

31. Oracle Performance and Benchmarking Confidence the E-Business Suite will Perform Leverage the Resources of Oracle and its Partners Consistent Metrics for Comparison