If you’re parsing 100k entries for an hour, I can tell you something is very wrong. Over my career I took care of lots of SAP systems (from Basis perspective) which ranged from small ERPs/EWMs with only few hundreds of GBs of data up to massive Business Warehouse systems with tens of terabytes.
And 100k entries really shouldn’t take that much, because that’s nothing. But of course it’s possible. SAP needs administration… You need to take care of the system, you need to take care of the underlying database. You need to be sure that you’re following proper recommendations to ensure good performance. And then there’s also a question what exactly was running slowly. SAP is usually heavily modified by custom coding and while the end user might not be aware which applications are “SAP standard” and which are custom, it makes a lot of difference. It’s easy for in-house developers to customize a program only for the program to work badly.
My point is - SAP can work perfectly fine as long as it’s maintained by experienced people and if the custom development is done properly. But companies love to cut corners and their employees don’t even know if the problematic report is created by SAP, or by some random developer with lack of experience. To the end user, it’s always SAP that’s bad.
If you’re parsing 100k entries for an hour, I can tell you something is very wrong. Over my career I took care of lots of SAP systems (from Basis perspective) which ranged from small ERPs/EWMs with only few hundreds of GBs of data up to massive Business Warehouse systems with tens of terabytes.
And 100k entries really shouldn’t take that much, because that’s nothing. But of course it’s possible. SAP needs administration… You need to take care of the system, you need to take care of the underlying database. You need to be sure that you’re following proper recommendations to ensure good performance. And then there’s also a question what exactly was running slowly. SAP is usually heavily modified by custom coding and while the end user might not be aware which applications are “SAP standard” and which are custom, it makes a lot of difference. It’s easy for in-house developers to customize a program only for the program to work badly.
My point is - SAP can work perfectly fine as long as it’s maintained by experienced people and if the custom development is done properly. But companies love to cut corners and their employees don’t even know if the problematic report is created by SAP, or by some random developer with lack of experience. To the end user, it’s always SAP that’s bad.