High Performance Portals with SAP NetWeaver

No more than 1 second

Pampered by solutions like Google and Yahoo, users’ expectations of response times in SAP Portal solutions have increased significantly. Content pages in the portal need to appear on the users’ screens in less than one second.

Performance optimization for the SAP NetWeaver Portal

Many customers today still operate their portal using the basic tools supplied in the original scope of delivery. These tools are geared toward maximum application functionality. The consequence: This often results in poor response times, especially when users are not in the company's high-bandwidth LAN.

Thanks to years of portal experience, btexx has the solution for this dilemma. btexx portal solutions deliver outstanding performance and excite your employees with their attractive design. The result: Enterprise portals that are truly accepted and actually put to use as tools for accomplishing work!

Targeted portal performance optimization: The technology at a glance

Targeted performance optimization must encompass every area of the portal; the reasons for poor response time behavior are numerous. The portal experts at btexx have developed a special Portal Performance Guide for this specific purpose. It provides you with an clear overview of a broad range of different solution approaches.

  1. Poor portal performance? There are a number of reasons for this. In rare cases, the problem may be that infrastructure capacity was not adequately planned out in advance. More often, however, we find that the portal and/or application server has not been optimally configured. But the number one cause of performance bottlenecks is usually the wrong approach to implementation!
  2. When initially installed, the SAP Portal Framework is geared toward optimum application performance. This results in time-consuming network roundtrips and means that the data volume to be transferred is comparatively high. Following the performance optimization, the framework offers the same functionality and is often 10 times faster than before. Network roundtrips and the volume of data to be transferred are significantly reduced.
  3. btexx has developed a Portal Performance Guide designed especially for solving performance issues. btexx customers and everyone who attends the btexx Performance Training Seminar receive the guide free of charge!

Why optimize? – Making users wait causes you to lose them after 10 seconds!

Performance is one of the key acceptance criteria for a portal. In earlier days, the 8-second rule applied here. With today's faster Internet connections, expectations have risen dramatically. This is why the Norman Nielsen Group has developed three fundamental rules for application performance:

  • If a page loads within one tenth of a second, the user perceives it as appearing instantly
  • If response times reach up to one second the user notices a slight delay, but does not view this in a negative light
  • In the range of one to ten seconds, the user's attention wanes with each additional second spent waiting on the page to load
  • After ten seconds, the user will certainly assume that there is some sort of technical difficulty

So the requirements are clear: Typical portal application content pages should appear within one second. Otherwise, acceptance will suffer.

Performance Optimization – Our offer for you!

btexx has developed a variety of custom-tailored offers for every aspect of performance optimization:

  • Performance Quick Check: Measurement and analysis of your portal performance
  • Optimization of your SAP NetWeaver Portal and KM configuration settings
  • Development of performance-optimized portal frameworks
  • Modern rendering technologies for the content area

Do you still have questions or comments?

We would be happy to discuss your project’s unique requirements in detail. Be sure to request your non-binding proposal summary today. Your contact is Markus Marenbach, Managing Consultant and Managing Director at our Cologne office. Contact us »

Your advantages

  • Higher portal acceptance levels among users
  • Expansion of the application areas for the portal
  • Security of your infrastructure investments
  • Reduction in service calls to the User Help Desk
 

Services at a glance

  • Optimum use of portal hardware
  • Standard or light framework deployment
  • Combination of design and usability optimization
  • Use of innovative rendering methods (e.g. Groovy)
 

Performance Quick Check

One of our performance experts analyzes your portal infrastructure for an entire day. In addition to the analysis, you also receive a clear and concise performance report!

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btexx contact person

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