SAP Capacity Planning
Stabilizing SAP Environment to Meet Business Needs
Successfully implementing and using SAP environment capacity planning & sizing play an important role.
It determines a company’s stable performance and efficiency for a certain period of time.
A most important aspect is to translate SAP requirements into available hardware and other technical areas to implement a scalable & flexible SAP landscape.
SAP Lifecycle & Events Triggering Capacity Planning

New SAP Implementation

Database Growth

Upgrade

Increased Number of Users

Additional Functional Modules Implementation

Additional SAP Components Implementation like CRM, BW, APO

Change in Hardware or
Database Technology

Implementation of
SAAS solutions
Components Involved with Capacity Planning
Database Capacity & Performance
Storage Capacity & Performance
Database Growth and Archiving
EDO and Data Exchange Load
Extra load due to Interface with other SAP Components
User Desktop Requirement
SAP Transaction and User load
Portal Capacity Requirement and SAP Web Application