PeopleSoft Announces Record Performance Benchmarks for PeopleSoft 8

Strategic Insights -

PeopleSoft has achieved remarkable performance benchmarks for its PeopleSoft 8 e-business platform, demonstrating its capabilities to handle large-scale online transactions with sub-second response times. The company's eBill Payment application processed 191,694 payments in one hour on a Compaq ProLiant cluster, showcasing the platform's scalability, reliability, and high-performance capabilities. This achievement highlights the potential of PeopleSoft's pure internet architecture running on Compaq ProLiant clusters to power e-business applications.

Key Takeaways:

  • PeopleSoft 8 processed 191,694 payments in one hour on a Compaq ProLiant cluster, achieving sub-second response times.
  • The benchmark simulated customers transferring funds online using PeopleSoft's eBill Payment application.
  • The configuration included a single Compaq ProLiant 8500 as the database server, connected by ServerNet II to eight Compaq ProLiant 8500 servers running the PeopleSoft 8 application.
  • The database server averaged 71 percent CPU utilization, while the web servers averaged 41 percent CPU utilization.
  • The benchmark utilized the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition database with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.
  • PeopleSoft's pure internet architecture eliminated the need for client software installation, enabling access through low-bandwidth networks and various platforms.
  • The PeopleSoft Internet Architecture is a server-centric, pure internet platform for e-business, which enables access from any platform supporting a web browser.

Statistics:

  • 191,694 payments processed in one hour
  • 15,000 customers in the database
  • 71 percent CPU utilization of the database server
  • 41 percent CPU utilization of the web servers
  • PeopleSoft employs more than 7,900 people worldwide
  • Over 4,600 organizations in 107 countries run on PeopleSoft e-business applications

Sources:

  • "PeopleSoft Announces Record Performance Benchmarks for PeopleSoft 8" (Business Wire, Oct. 23, 2000)
  • "About PeopleSoft" (PeopleSoft's official website, 2000)