Digital Equipment Corporation has announced that its electronic document and data archiving system - DIGITAL Archive for SAP R/3 - has been certified for version 3.1 for DIGITAL UNIX and Windows NT for both Intel and Alpha platforms. The company also announced that its 64-bit AlphaServer 4100 5/600 system supports 260 SAP R/3 benchmark users - more than any other system in its class. It also processes more records per hour than comparable systems from other vendors, according to the SAP R/3 Sales and Distribution benchmark results.
DIGITAL Archive for SAP R/3 is a complete turnkey solution available to customers through Digital Worldwide Services, and includes hardware, archive software, project services, and customization. The solution, which also comprises electronic archives of data stored in jukeboxes of optical discs, enables users to archive and retrieve incoming and outgoing scanned documents and track SAP R/3 application data as it moves through various business processes in a company.
"As companies successfully implement SAP R/3, they are faced with the management of increasing amounts of data," said Rob Schroenn, product marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corporation SA. "They can purchase additional terabytes of primary storage, or they look for a more suitable alternative, such as moving data off-line to secondary storage. DIGITAL Archive for SAP R/3 allows customers to manage data cost-effectively and efficiently with a cohesive archiving system they can use for their businesses worldwide."
StorageWorks products are key part of the DIGITAL Archive for SAP R/3 solution, providing enterprise-level scalability and high performance for primary storage, and safe keeping of temporary files, cache, and index-database information used for the archiving process. StorageWorks solutions, which include optical jukeboxes, support all major hardware platforms, operating systems, and applications.
Digital and partners, such as SAP AG and Oracle, lead the industry in supplying the highest performing, 64-bit solutions on the market, dramatically improving database and application performance by raising the amount of information that can be stored in main memory.
In addition to its ability to handle a record-breaking number of SAP R/3 users, Digital's four-processor AlphaServer 4100 5/600 system beat competitors on other fronts as demonstrated by the Sales and Distribution benchmark. A key performance metric for SAP R/3 users is the response time of the system, or the time it takes to process user input. Response time is characterized by one dialog work process and is directly related to the performance of a single CPU.
With an average dialog response time of 1.55 seconds, the AlphaServer 4100 5/600 achieved throughput of 81.100 dialog steps per hour with an average CPU utilization of 99 percent. That's the equivalent of 27 000 fully processed business-order line items per hour. The system delivered more than twice the performance of a comparable Intel Pentium Pro system and almost 40 percent more performance than a comparable Sun SPARC system.
"These benchmark results give customers a yardstick they can use when selecting a platform for SAP R/3 applications," said Schroenn. "Together, Digital, SAP AG, and Oracle offer the highest performing solutions on the market and have broken records by exploiting 64-bit technologies. And as demands on SAP R/3 applications increase, customers can easily upgrade AlphaServer systems to include the latest processors for even higher performance and maximum investment protection."
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