Title: Performance of Large LAN Applications
1Performance of LargeLAN Applications
- Jeremy Bohannon Bryan Garcia
- Lori Garcia Scott McCumsey
- Steve Potts
2Base Network Architectures
- Traditional Mainframe Environments
- Used primarily for legacy applications
- Client/Server
- Most newer applications
- Net Centric
- Very thin client networks
- Combination
3LAN Network Evolution
4Examples of LAN Applications
- E-mail
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
- CRM (Customer Relations Management)
- MRP (Material Requirements Planning)
- Proprietary applications created in-house to meet
business needs
5Key Issues for Applications Availability and
Operations
- Concurrent Users
- Speed
- Response Time / Latency
- Real-Time Information
- Network Traffic
- Cross-Platform Activity (Legacy systems)
- Sharing Data Between Applications
- Security
- Remote Users
6Criteria For Selecting LAN Technology
- Bandwidth
- New Technology
- Cost
- Interoperability
- QoS
- Manageability
- Scalability
7Selecting the Right LAN Backbone Technology
- FDDI
- ATM
- Frame Relay
- Ethernet
- Gigabit Ethernet
8Signs Your LAN is in Distress
- Speed or lack of speed is the most common clue
that the network is in distress - Difficulty installing new enterprise applications
such as E-mail, Internet access, etc. - Overloaded servers
- Slow client workstations
- Increased failure of network components
9Understanding Your Network BASELINING
- A Baseline is a collection of performance
measurements captured during peak loads. - Useful in diagnosing a misbehaving network.
- Tells you if performance-enhancing changes are
actually working. - Network baseline statistics include
- Peak and average network utilization
- Average number of errors
- Average number of collisions
- Monitoring equipment collects statistics so that
you can review and compare.
10The Ethernet LAN
11What is ERP?
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) provides
companies with a plan to integrate all
departments and functions within the company by
implementing a complete software solution that
runs off a single, integrated database.
12People Soft, Inc.
- PeopleSoft, Inc., Pleasanton, CA
- A software company that specializes in
enterprise-wide applications for client/server
environments. Initially specializing in human
resources, its package offerings today cover the
gamut including manufacturing, accounting and
several vertical markets. All major databases are
supported. Its products are known for their
modularity as well as their ease of modification
and customization using the PeopleTools
development system. - www.peoplesoft.com
13PeopleSoft Applications
- E-business
- Customer Relationship Management
- Enterprise Performance Management
- Human Resource Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Financial Management Solutions
14Case StudyBackground
- Case study Applied Materials, Inc.
- Founded in 1967--experienced explosive growth in
the 1970s - Since 1992, worlds largest supplier of
semiconductor manufacturing equipment - Employs 14,000 people in more than 95 locations
in 14 countries worldwide - Revenues gt 4 billion in 1998 Fortune 100 list
of companies - Used a packaged HR and payroll solution prior to
1994 - Needed a global human resources system for
14,000-strong workforce - Vision system to provide users with information
at their fingertips any where in the world
15Case StudyChallenge
- Applied Materials sent out a description of its
requirements - PeopleSoft was the only vendor with a proven
market strategy and a high standard of customer
support. - PeopleSofts HRM enabled Applied Materials, Inc.,
to implement progressive web-enabled employee and
manager self-service - HRM solution A single, consistent source of
global information - Use in U.S. in one year, worldwide in 2 years
16Case StudySolution
- Computing Environment
- Hardware UNIX-based HP 9000 Servers
- Database Oracle
- PeopleSoft Products
- PeopleSoft Human Resources
- Benefits Administration
- Payroll
- People Tools
- Implementation Services
- PeopleSoft Consulting
17Case StudySolution
- 250 HR functional users all over the world
- 14,000 employees use Web self-service for updates
- Uses
- Personnel Administration
- Compensation and Benefits
- Education
- Training
- In U. S., Payroll and Benefits Administration
- Education Training are also managed by the
system
18Case StudyResults
- Previously
- 4-5 end-users in the HR division, and 7 in
payroll - Series of phone calls necessary to make inquiries
of items with global component - Now
- Information is available to 14,000 worldwide,
depending on security and levels of privileges
granted - EARs (employee action requests) initiated online,
with monitoring of progress of EARs - Improved data integrity
19Case StudyResults
- Managers can now monitor
- which training courses employees have followed
- transfers, termination, new hires, salary
changes, and promotions - skills base in the company, to locate resources
they require - gaps in skills of the workforce
20H. R.s Strategic, Value-Added Role
- Major impact work of HR people
- In the past, much of their work involved
executing transactions - Automation of transactionsmore free time for
analysis analytical - Manage companys human resources strategically
- Self-service enabled routine tasks to be
offloaded - employees able to look up job codes online,
rather than having to phone up and ask what they
are
21SAP
- German based Company
- Worlds largest inter-enterprise software
- Worlds third largest independent software
provider - www.mysap.com
22SAP R/3 System
- Based on the three-tier model of distributed
client/server processing.
- Scalable at each level
- SQL is used to define and manipulate data
- DBMS based applications
23Case StudyBackground
- BMW
- Manufacturer of custom luxury cars and SUVs.
- Headquartered in Munich, Germany.
- Looking to build new manufacturing plant in South
Carolina. - Wants to build 300 cars/day on a 16-hr production
cycle.
24Case StudyChallenge
- To develop and implement a new information
infrastructure for the plant. - Integrate in to the Headquarters' database.
- Low maintenance cost for system.
- Integrated information system to speed the flow
of information across the enterprise.
25Case StudySolution
- SAP R/3
- Integrated Database System
- HP Model 170 Business Servers Supported by a 30
gigabyte database - 600 PCs are attached to the network as clients
- 100 Users running concurrent sessions
- HP OpenView System
- Network software to manage the distributed
client/server installation
26Case StudySolution
- Basic System Implemented in 4 months.
- First BMW plant to run entirely off commercially
available software. - Linked legacy database with new system.
27Case StudyResults
- Implementation saved several years and 50 of
normal development cost. - Whole Production process speed has been
increased. - As a result of all of the improvements, BMW is
now looking to move into JIT.
28Baan Company
- Leading provider of enterprise business solutions
- Applications for front office, corporate office
and back office automation support more than
13,000 customers worldwide
29Baan Company
- Applications span entire value chain
- E-Business
- Web Commerce
- Customer Relationship Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Enterprise Resource Planning
30Supply Chain Management
- Supply chain management is the handling of the
flow of material and information through the
supply chain. - The competitiveness of an organization in today's
markets is directly related to how well they can
synchronize and accelerate the flow of material
through the enterprise. - Those that do it well, gain a significant time
based competitive advantage.
31Case StudyBackground
- Herman Miller Furniture Manufacturing
- Award-winning international manufacturer of
stylish furniture systems - Generates over 1.7 billion in sales serving
customers in over 40 countries
32Case StudyChallenge
- Implement a reliable, fast and cost-efficient
international order fulfillment system - Shift from a weekly batch delivery schedule to a
finite daily customer delivery timetable - Synchronize customer orders across a multitude of
manufacturing sites
33Case StudyChallenge
- Process massive order volumes and transactional
data quickly and efficiently - Extend the system beyond the organization to the
supplier base
34Case StudySolution
- Baan IVc / Supply Chain serves as
- the transactional and financial backbone
- a central management system for order generation,
shipping and production completion schedules
35Case StudySolution
- HP server and an Oracle database
- Baan's Dynamic Enterprise Modeling (DEM) to
set-up operational "best practices" within the
system - Baan Education services to "train-the-trainer"
36Case StudyResults
- A 95 efficiency and accuracy in meeting customer
delivery requirements - A reduction in overall customer order fulfillment
and time-to-delivery - All manufacturing and distribution requirements
now generated upon customer order
37Case StudyResults
- Customers now quoted actual delivery dates at the
time of order placement - An increase in timely customer and vendor billing
resolution - A reduction in time required to close financial
transactions - Easier, self-help access to order and account
information for the supplier base
38Case StudyConclusion
- Reducing lead times and increasing reliability
were the key measures of success - Can now become a real competitive advantage for
Herman Miller
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40Oracle
- Initial incorporation in June 1977
- Launched its first relational database
application in 1979
- Applications quickly expanded to include OLTP,
data warehousing, application servers,
application development, and enterprise-class
applications
- Currently employs 43,000 with most recent year
adjusted profit of 2.06 billion
- The worlds leading supplier of software for
information management and the worlds second
largest independent software company
- The first software company to develop and deploy
100 percent internet-enabled enterprise software
across its entire product line database, server,
enterprise business applications, and application
development and decision support tools
41Oracle (cont)
Oracle Customer Satisfaction
42Oracle (cont)
Oracle Pricing vs. The Competition
43Oracle (cont)
Oracles Packaged Apps Dream
44Oracle (Cont)
- Oracle released 11i on May 24, 2000 as an
integrated enterprise application
- Oracle11i boasts quarterly growth of 161
- Oracle11i combines
- Customer Relations Management
- Order Management
- Financials
- Human Resource Management
- Manufacturing
- Procurement
- Project Planning
- Supply Chain Management
45Oracle (cont)
- Oracle is the world's most popular database for
internet computing (Oracle8i)
- Oracle8i provides
- Data Warehousing
- Internet Computing and Java
- High Availability and Security
- Performance and Quality
46Oracle (cont)
Enterprise Portal An internal Web site
(intranet) that provides proprietary,
enterprise-wide information to company employees
as well as access to selected public Web sites
and vertical-market Web sites (suppliers,
vendors, etc.). It includes a search engine for
internal documents as well as the ability to
customize the portal page for different user
groups and individuals. It is an extension of
the ERP concept dealing with enhanced user access
to the organizations data.
- Gives a common interface to users for data inside
and outside the corporation - Provides busy professionals with one-stop
shopping for all their information needs - Users have access to structured and unstructured
data without having to know the format or
location of the data
47Case StudyBackground
- One of the oldest teams in the NHL
- Historically approximately 30 field scouts used a
variety of methods to track and discover new
prospects - The Problem Scouting is a key to the successful
franchise - Scouts tracked a variety of player stats, but not
always the same stats - No easy way to synthesize the data into any
meaningful arrangement - Data had to be re-entered at the home office
48Case StudyChallenge
- The Blackhawks were looking to update their
scouting process to possibly develop a
competitive advantage on and off the ice
- The Solution? Oracle 8i and Oracle Business
Partner, Braxton Butterfield Consulting, Inc. - Oracle Development Tools
- Oracle System Tuning
- Oracle System Administration includes network
infrastructure, onsite or remote administration,
capacity planning and security, and firewalls
49Case StudySolution
- Hardware Silicon Graphics server running IRIX
IBM ThinkPad laptops running Microsoft Windows 95
- Products and Services Oracle 8i Enterprise
Server and Oracle 8i
- Oracle 8i Database Lite designed as single-user
remote databases
- Web-to-Go, Oracle Internet platform allows for
management of mobile web applications
- iConnect, a data-transport module that enables
reliable and scalable synchronization of data and
applications between Oracle8i Lite and a central
database server
50Case StudyResults
51Case StudyResults
- Blackhawk scouts can access via Internet browser
or a PC on the corporate network - Oracle8i Lite is maintained on the Oracle8i
server and is replicated to the client when
needed - Benefits
- Enables a highly mobile workforce to streamline a
complex selection process - Simplifies data retrieval, consolidations and
analysis - Minimizes maintenance by using a common database
both in the field and at headquarters