Infinium - Commerce Application Sizing Q&A Data

Specify preferred platform on which ATG will run in production (if known):
PLATFORM
IBM /HP/Sun/Others I HP
Portal Technology All Mobile
BI Products Not in current
scope
Database Likely Oracle or
SQL
Content Management Reqd
CRM Reqd partly
Search Technology Reqd
Payment Systems Reqd
Application Servers HP
Yes, taken
Do you have a firewall / security requirement between your Web Services, care of by us
Application Severs and Data Servers?

Prefer
Does your operations team prefer a) larger capacity systems (requiring less physical
consolidated
# of platforms – and is working to consolidate HW), or do you prefer b) multiple
HW
physical systems of smaller capacity?
Yes
When Deploying site change – is it expected that line of business will want to preview
change, evaluate it (for content accuracy etc..) and provide an approval application
interface to publish that change to production?
The failover
Do you require a standby version of the database instance available to “failover too”
backup will be
in a matter of minutes or hours? Please Specify:
taken care of
If hours, is it acceptable if database is not in the same physical facility as the
by us
production copy?
Would seek
Up to how much redundency to handle peak volume do you want of your Web
your
Servers and Application Servers? If you lose 1, are you still able to meet
recommendati
performance SLA? If you Lose 2? 3? In other words, at what point is “degregation”
on
acceptable.
Not currently
Do you have a “cold-site”, redundent production site or disaster recovery requirement
should you lose a data center facility?

Approx 6
pages
How many user interactions do you expect per visit? In other words, how many links
will a visitor click before the end of a session?

How many total visits per day do you anticipate for the server system? Peak 2000
Typical 1000
Peak

Typical
What is the expected concurrent users to the site (# of users clicking submit at the Peak 1500
same time) or generating an HTML Post request. Typical 500

Peak

Typical

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 How long, on average, would you expect a visitor to view a page? For instance, if Peak 45
there were mostly ‘text’ a visitor might spend 25 seconds on each page. If there seconds
were a lot of graphics it could be less time spent per link, say 15 seconds. Typical 25
seconds
Peak

Typical
What number of orders is expected per 1000 visits? In other words what is the browse/buy ratio? (The
most common response is 95/5). Select (x) one.
1000/25
How many orders will be processed per day? Peak 100
Typical 40
Peak

Typical

For B2C – 24
What is the total number of orders expected to be processed per day – and specify
hours
how long you measure that “day” (e.g. 12 hours, 24 hours)
For B2B – 10
hours
Peak
Peak orders –
≠
100
Typical
Typical orders
– 40
Most orders
Of this total number do the bulk of the daily orders come in during a certain window
will be
of the day? For instance, if you anticipate 8000 orders in a day, of which, 6000 are
between 9 am
received between 10 a.m. and 1p.m. or within a 3 hour period.
to 6 pm IST
Average time
On average, how long will a visitor spend at the site before closing their browser or
would be 5
going to another web site? Does Peak vary this ratio?
minutes
Static site
active 24 hrs.
How many hours per day is the site active? Dynamic price
part active for
10 hours a day
Average traffic
What is the expected average traffic to the site (page views per day)? would be 1000
at peak
What portion of the pages served during a visit will (or would you like to be dynamic
Not sure at this
pages – meaning content is targeted, personalized? Enter percentage (%).
point
70%
What is the desired peak CPU utilization your systems team has as a standard?
Enter percentage (%).
All variants of
product would
How many specific product items will users browse per visit?
be browsed.
Typically 5-7
Yes
Do pages have frames? Enter Yes or No.

Possibly
Or is there 1 dynamic request per page? Enter Yes or No.

What is the ratio of the peak to average load on this site? For example, 2 to 1 means Typically 2:1
the peak load is 2 times larger than the average load? Be sure to account for daily
and seasonal variance in your peak traffic evaluation.
1#5
How large is the search component of the workload for this site? Enter # of
searches/visit.

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 About 50
How many products or items will be in the database in total, or you expect to have in products
a year? including all
variants
How many product categories are there of these items or do you expect to have in a
year? 5 categories
No current
customers.
Expected
How many registered customers do you have now?
aprrox 800
How Many do you expect in a year additional? (estimate if appropriate)
registration in
a year

No current
How many orders to you store in a year today? orders.
How many orders to you project to grow by? (estimate if appropriate) Expected 100
orders a day
Typically
What is your policy for data retention? (Order History, Registered users) – in days, annually for
months, years) - How Frequently do you expect to prune your database? B2B.

Need to
Is it acceptable to your architecture team to cache page content to the Web Server or discuss.
an edge environment? Enter Yes or No.

10%
Of your registered consumer base, do you expect to personalize content to 10%,
50%, 80%, 100% of the registered users? (e.g. Campaigns, Promotions, Web
Content..)
N/A
Currently, what is your network bandwidth into your Web Servers? (T1, multiple T1’s,
) What is the Utilization?

Approximately how many major application releases do you plan in a year?

2
How fast (minutes, hours) must builds be published to and with what frequency in It would be
each environment (daily, weekly, monthly) pretty static
• Test
• Production
Where will you do capacity planning? QA? Staging? Offline Production? Backend ERP
What is your source control system?
How Many UI developers do you have, and what tools do they use for UI design? Need a
complete
package from
implementor
How Many JAVA/JSP developers do you have or plan to have? Ditto as above
How Many Persistence / data access developers do you have? Ditto as above
Do you plan on having a copy of production data in test, integration, qa, staging? Ditto as above

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