Calendar Performance benchmarks

[denvi]

Dear SAC community,

We are considering using the SAC Planning with Calendar functionality in a large multinational organization.

Therefore, there would be a need to have in parallel up to 700 parallel calendar processes for each company code. Each process will have a slightly individual timeline (star/end dates might vary slightly), a different set of Assignee and Review users, and the same structure of steps/events: multiple review rounds, data locking, and data extraction.

Does anyone have any performance benchmarks to share, or any view of what might be the impact on overall SAC responsiveness and performance?

Best regards, Denis

[roman_moehl · Accepted solution]

Hello Denis,

thank you for your question.

I understand that the 700 processes will have child events for review rounds, data locking, etc. Do you have more details on how many Calendar events there are for each process? It would be interesting to calculate the total number of Calendar events.

In general, I don’t foresee a problem with the 700 processes as such. We have added performance improvements for the Calendar status aggregation and the handling of Dependency chains in QRC 2 2023. That should allow to usage of Calendar at scale. We are not aware of performance issues at that scale.

In order to handle a large number of Calendar events, I would recommend to get the familiar with the following Calendar features

• Generate Tasks and Processes with the Calendar Wizard
  
• Edit Multiple Calendar Events
  

With the mentioned features above we encourage you to test your scenario at scale. This should give you an understanding on how planning processes in SAC calendar behave with 700 events generated.

Please let me know in case of further questions / comments. We could also offer to have a call once you have tested the set-up of this large-scale calendar usage in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Best regards,

Roman