SAP and Performance
July 19, 2009
SAP is a company that provides me with a living lab test of complex software, often running on Microsoft servers. Microsoft tried to buy this puppy years ago, and I wonder if the SAP stakeholders wish they had taken that deal. Shades of Jerry Yang style thinking.
If you are struggling with SAP performance issues, you are not alone. Read “SAP Gremlins Sap Performance” to learn about your soul mates. The write up in IT News runs down some results from an azure chip consulting company, so take the data with a grain or two of salt. Among the findings (offered without a sample size or margin of error data) included:
- 90 percent report monthly slow downs
- Performance issues dog both business intelligence and enterprise resource planning customers
- 62 percent report not being thrilled with SAP’s approach to performance issues.
To be fair, performance issues are, in my experience, not SAP’s exclusive domain. Other German software, engineered within an inch of its life, runs slowly as well. Throwing hardware at the applications often won’t work. Too many moving parts, too many millisecond sucking delays while complex processes lumber along. Anyone able to name other performance piggies?
Stephen Arnold, July 10, 2009
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