What Is Performance Management?

No matter how much time you spend architecting and deploying an SAP system, in a matter of months you’ll be revisiting system performance. Why? Because SAP systems, by their very nature, are not static. Operating systems and SAP kernels need to be patched. Hardware requires various firmware updates to improve stability or support new options. Databases are tweaked for improved performance as their various tables and other structures grow under the weight of daily transaction loads. SAP also changes as application-specific support packages, patches, and a host of functional and technical updates are applied in response to changing business requirements. In all this, the very foundation of the platform carefully ...

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