Customer 1 Example

Customer 1 expects to have PPM 16,000 users, with the potential for over 9,200 concurrent users across the system. Customer 1 predicts the highest concurrent usage to be 7,000 users attempting to log time sheets within a four-hour period.

Customer 1 plans to implement the following PPM modules:

  • Demand Management

  • Portfolio Management

  • Program Management

  • Project Management

  • Time Management

  • Deployment Management

All hardware in the configuration uses Intel Xeon processors running Linux 2.1. The database server has four CPUs. A hardware load balancer manages Web traffic. The application server tier consists of two machines, each of which has the following:

  • Four CPUs

  • Apache Web Server or PPM Server