What are SAPS and what is their use?
In short, SAP Application Performance Standards (SAPS) describe the throughput power of a given hardware configuration. It is a hardware independent unit that is derived from the business processes of the SD Standard Application Benchmark. In detail, 100 SAPS are 2,000 fully business processed SD order line items per hour. Or, in more technical terms, 2,400 SAP transactions, or 6,000 dialog steps (screen changes) per hour. In the SAP environment, you can use the SAPS value of given hardware configurations to compare their throughput capabilities with SAP software. this is particularly useful for sizing. For more information about benchmarks see www.sap.com/benchmark.
