mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing

9.4. Testing and Tuning for Business Peaks

Though the tuning made possible by daily expected workload testing will benefit you 99% of the time, you must still work through an ROI exercise designed to determine whether it's financially advisable to stress test the remaining 1% of scenarios. To an outsider, 1% might seem trivial, but if the 1% represents any of the following scenarios, the financial impact associated with planning for, setting up, configuring, executing, monitoring, analyzing, and tuning might easily be justified:

• If you bring in a significant portion of your revenue via seasonal peaks

• If you must process a time-sensitive workload in a particular execution window (e.g., 2 hours start to finish), such as payroll checks or tax-return ...