Enterprise Resource Planning
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Customers need to conduct business as close to real-time as possible, and this trend is only increasing as the IT industry moves forward with "business intelligence" initiatives and similar operations in the quest to improve business acuity and agility.

To support these requirements, customers host their business data and processes on large databases that support lots of concurrent users and transactions. The day to day business operations are conducted (buying and selling), inventory is updated, shipments are scheduled, etc, all in quasi real-time. Compounding the demanding nature of the workload is the increasing number of "data mining" or inquiry workloads, executed real time, that provide executive management with a snapshot of business activity for the day/week/month.

In order for these business environments to be successful, transactions must be executed in a timely manner. Trivial transactions need to be consistently executed in one second or less, and transaction response times need to remain consistent during periods of peak daily usage. This requires a robust host system, and because of the write-intensive nature of OLTP business transactions, is best matched with a large single-image SMP server1.

Finally, since the business of the company is extensively based upon the database and its availability, the reliability of the system is paramount. If the system is down, the business is down.

Solutions
• SAP

• Oracle

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005

• Database Consolidation White Paper

• Online Transaction Processing White Paper