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Mercury Diagnostics for SAP

Monday, May 15th, 2006

These are the long-awaited slides from my Mercury World Australia presentation. If you are currently performance testing an SAP implementation with LoadRunner or Performance Center, it is worthwhile evaluating Mercury’s diagnostic tools.

Solving SAP Performance Problems in Record Time

Who Am I?

An Optimisation Question

An Optimisation Question

Performance Testing SAP

SAP Background

In terms of revenue, SAP is the fourth largest software company (behind Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle).

Pros and Cons

In My Experience

Problem Areas

When To Start?

Early Testing

What Should You Test?

SAP Web Scripting

SAPGUI Scripting

More Importantly, scripting is not the big deal it used to be

Why Use Diagnostics?

What’s In The Toolbox?

SAP Diagnostics

SAP Diagnostics

SAP Diagnostics Demo

Alerts and Golden Rules

Transaction Time Breakdown

Server Time Breakdown

Application Processing Time Breakdown

Server Time Breakdown

SAP OS Monitor

J2EE Diagnostics

J2EE Diagnostics Demo

Transaction Response Time Summary

J2EE/.NET - Server Request Time Spent in Element

Method Chain of Calls

Method Chain of Calls showing Remote Function Call name

Summary

Questions?

If you have any questions or feedback, I am happy to reply via email.

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Mercury World Australia Presentation

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

I will be presenting at Mercury World Australia this year. If you are interested in hearing about my experiences using Mercury’s diagnostic tools for SAP (both R/3 and NetWeaver), please come and see my presentation at 9am on the 12th of May.

Mercury World Australia presentation - Solving SAP Performance Problems in Record Time

I will probably post the PowerPoint slides some time after the presentation.

Update: slides are here.

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