IBM B73.3 manual Sizing Guidelines, Request Document ID, Sizing Tool

4.A professional sizing response package will be returned to the IBM ERP consultant or business partner within five business days.

Netfinity OneWorld Sizing Tool Online

Now you can access the IBM Netfinity OneWorld sizing tool online via the following URL:

http://www.ibm.com/erp/jdedwards/sizings/index.html

Remember to answer the questions as carefully as possible so that the IBM

Sizing Center may provide you with accurate sizing information.

Request Document ID 8651

Once completed in its entirety, the questionnaire is then faxed to the IBM/ERP Pre-Sales Sizing Center. Professionals in the sizing center will analyze the input and provide an estimate of server sizing based on the performance data we have to date. For unusual sizing requests the sizing center may engage the IBM/J.D. Edwards International Competency Center or J.D. Edwards performance experts.

Once the analysis is complete a comprehensive document summarizing the output of a sizing analysis is delivered to the requester.

The Sizing Tool

The IBM/J.D. Edwards International Competency Center is comprised of a group of experienced professionals dedicated to providing high quality sales support for IBM platforms running J.D. Edwards software. In addition to a Competency Center Manager, the team includes server platform technical specialists, a sizing specialist, a network specialist, and a marketing specialist. The tool used for sizing the OneWorld and IBM Netfinity solution was developed by the Competency Center team. This tool is based on an analysis of the performance characterization data collected during the performance benchmark test runs for the IBM Netfinity servers.

The current tool is a user-based sizing tool and is designed to take user counts as collected by the sizing questionnaire then creating a reasonable estimate of resource needed for each server platform. Certain minimum requirements are built in to the tool. These are discussed in 5.6.2, “Sizing Guidelines” .

5.6.2 Sizing Guidelines

We must keep in mind that while pre-sales sizing is a very important phase of any OneWorld sale, the actual amount of money spent on server hardware in a typical implementation may be a relatively small portion of the entire package. We believe that for every dollar spent on OneWorld software a customer might expect to spend a dollar on server hardware, a dollar on PC upgrades, a dollar on network upgrades, and from three to four dollars on services. These numbers will vary by customer, but they demonstrate the fact that the cost of the server may comprise from 10% to 30% of the entire project cost.

In many situations we have seen the issue of pre-sales sizing take on a role much more important than the amount of money spent on this portion of the package can justify.

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