mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing

4.1. A Closer Look at Goals, Business Processes, and Data

As discussed in Chapter 2, the solution characteristics you value, coupled with your business goals/objectives, help shape the type of system you initially employ. Later, these solution characteristics color the types of changes and upgrades you introduce over time. It's therefore critical that your established solution characteristics and business goals be captured, carefully documented, and regularly reviewed prior to making changes to your SAP Technology Stack. Just as important, the business drivers that drove each particular solution characteristic, or in some way supported your goals, must be documented! For example, if one of your business goals is to achieve an average response ...