Benchmark Characteristics: During a SAP Standard Application
Benchmark run, all areas of a SAPsolution based system, including the database, the operating system, plus the CPU, memory, I/O system, and the network are stress tested. This makes special tuning the system to achieve better results impossible.

SAP Standard Application: Benchmarks simulate online users executing business transactions in dialog steps.  The user think time is set to allow ten seconds between dialog steps, which closely approximates the behavior of an experienced power user in a realworld environment.

During the benchmark run, the load on the system is increased until the response time seen by the simulated users reaches a maximum of two seconds. The resulting metric is expressed as the number of fully processed business items, for example, the number of items ordered, etc.