Scalability requirements

An important aspect of planning the implementation and configuration of your Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation system for production is determining your workload and business processing characteristics, and your performance requirements. This includes (at a minimum) the following:

When choosing use case scenarios, you should include:

For each use case scenario, you should:

If you have remote users, you have to test use case scenarios that involve screens or network based transactions across a real or simulated wide-area network. These include:

The answers to the questions above are critical to how you configure Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation.

System test

We strongly advise that you schedule time and resources to test Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation system (including all custom code, integrated external systems, and so forth) prior to implementation. IBM tests Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation to common or general usage patterns. Your configuration may differ greatly: