Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning & Sizing has a very important role to play in successful implementation and usage of your SAP environment, to meet the company’s business need with stable performance and efficiency over a period of time. One of the important aspect of Capacity Planning & Sizing is to translate SAP requirements into available hardware, OS, database, storage, network and backup technology and implement a Flexible and Scalable SAP landscape.

During the lifecycle of SAP, many events occur which trigger Capacity Planning such as:

New SAP implementation
SAP Upgrade
Database growth
Increase in user volume
Implementing additional functional modules
Implementation of additional SAP components such as BW, CRM, APO
Change in hardware or database technology such as HANA
Mergers
Divestitures
Implementation of SaaS solutions

Capacity planning for your SAP environment encompasses multiple components of a SAP system:

Server hardware capacity (CPU, memory etc.)
Storage capacity and performance
Database capacity and performance
Database growth and archiving
SAP transaction and user load
Network capacity and performance
User desktop requirement
Additional load due to Interfaces with other SAP components
EDI and data exchange load
SAP web application server and portal capacity requirement

MSI has the experience, leadership, and resources to assist you with a timely, cost-effective, and successful capacity planning and sizing of all SAP components and all interfaces, and add-on software. We utilize SAP’s Capacity Planning and Sizing tools, tools provided by hardware vendors and our own proprietary MSI Tools, as well as our knowledge and experience in our Knowledgebase from our years of practice and expertise. Expertise and experience of our team with all SAP components on various hardware, OS and database platforms, enables us to assist you with optimizing capacity requirements of your SAP environment.

MSI is a SAP partner and has worked on SAP Capacity Planning for more than 50 systems. MSI is recognized as a “Preferred Partner” and uniquely qualified to assist you when it comes to technical expertise such as SAP Capacity planning and SAP Data Archiving solutions.