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Benchmark Testing Results: Siemens PLM Software Teamcenter and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 i

Benchmark Testing Results:

Teamcenter Running on SQL Server 2012 and

Servers Based on Intel Xeon Processors

Running Teamcenter from Siemens PLM Software on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and servers based on

Intel Xeon processors provides unmatched performance and scalability

Technical White Paper Published: March 2012 Applies to: Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Abstract In today’s highly competitive global marketplace, industry-leading companies need to develop and deliver

world-class products quickly and efficiently. Product lifecycle management (PLM) can help companies achieve

these objectives by driving product and process innovation and helping companies to build the right product

and build the product right.

Teamcenter, from Siemens PLM Software, is the world’s most widely used PLM system, with more licenses

deployed at more companies in more industries than any other PLM software. Proven Teamcenter solutions

support the best practices and standards-based processes that help companies increase productivity, improve

global teamwork, control a product’s lifecycle, and speed their return on investment (ROI).

This white paper presents benchmark testing data that validates the performance and scalability of Microsoft

SQL Server 2012 as an enterprise-class database management system for Teamcenter. The tests confirm that

when running on SQL Server 2012, Teamcenter can easily scale to 10,000 concurrent users while maintaining

excellent performance.

This paper also describes some of the additional benefits that SQL Server 2012 brings to Teamcenter,

demonstrating that together, SQL Server 2012 and Teamcenter running on servers based on Intel Xeon

processors provide a reliable and cost-effective PLM system that can help an enterprise improve time to

market and profitability by reducing development time and costs.

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Table of Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 1

Introducing Teamcenter ................................................................................................................................... 2

Benefits of SQL Server 2012 .............................................................................................................................. 5

Benefits of Servers Based on Intel Xeon Processors ......................................................................................... 7

Benchmark Testing Overview ........................................................................................................................ 7

Test Environment.............................................................................................................................................. 8 Network ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 Software ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 Hardware ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 Storage ....................................................................................................................................................... 11

Benchmark Test Procedure ............................................................................................................................. 13

Benchmark Testing Results .......................................................................................................................... 15

Horizontal Scalability ...................................................................................................................................... 15

SQL Server 2012 Performance ........................................................................................................................ 15

User Experience .............................................................................................................................................. 17

Summary ..................................................................................................................................................... 17

Additional Information ................................................................................................................................ 18

About Siemens PLM Software ........................................................................................................................ 18

About Microsoft.............................................................................................................................................. 18

About Intel ...................................................................................................................................................... 18

Benchmark Testing Results: Siemens PLM Software Teamcenter and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 1

Introduction In today’s fiercely competitive environment, manufacturers need to quickly capitalize on new

market opportunities so they can get to market ahead of their competitors. But bringing a new

product to market—from concept to launch—requires a coordinated effort among many company

departments, from design to manufacturing to distribution. This effort can be particularly

challenging when these departments are geographically dispersed, a common reality in today’s

global economy. Compressed timelines, complex products, and intense global competition all make

managing a product’s life cycle a daunting task.

Companies know that it is innovation that sets them apart from their competitors, especially in

challenging market and economic conditions. To effectively develop new offerings, companies need

to facilitate collaboration among their stakeholders worldwide. They need to foster the exchange of

ideas, and they need to encourage the reuse of proven parts, equipment, and processes to reduce

costs. Capturing knowledge and expertise for continuous

improvement helps innovative companies succeed, as does

tracking regulatory compliance and integrating design

information with manufacturing best practices. Product life

cycle management (PLM) is the strategic business approach

that encompasses all of these endeavors.

PLM is the process of managing all phases of product

development—from initial conception through end of life.

Effective PLM combines product information, business

processes, and people and capital resources to streamline each

phase of the life cycle. It provides an environment for

managing processes, data, and resources across the extended enterprise without the need to

overhaul the fabric and infrastructure of the organization. The hallmark of a world-class PLM

strategy is to increase the enterprise’s flexibility and agility to respond swiftly and effectively to new

changes, new markets, and competitors.

PLM systems have been adopted by industries as diverse as aerospace, high tech and electronics,

consumer packaged goods, life sciences, and automotive. These industries use PLM to connect and

integrate people and processes involved in the design and manufacture of their products. PLM

systems and their related methodologies continue to mature, resulting in integrated processes that

now span the full product lifecycle.

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, offers

Teamcenter, the most widely used PLM system in the world. Teamcenter focuses on individual,

application, and IT productivity, supporting enterprise-level companies with a suite of digital

lifecycle management solutions that target different business initiatives. With Teamcenter as a

single source of product and process knowledge, individuals and teams can be more productive

around-the-clock and from anywhere in the world.

“Microsoft and Siemens PLM Software are transforming how manufacturers manage product data from concept to retirement by delivering a powerful, low-cost set of tools to help employees and external creative teams collaborate on innovative products that meet the demands of their customers.”

Steve Ballmer CEO, Microsoft


For more than 15 years, Siemens has worked with Microsoft, integrating the Siemens PLM Software

family of PLM software with Microsoft products and technologies. The result: powerful PLM

solutions that help companies accelerate innovation, optimize resources, ensure quality, and

compress time-to-market.

For more information about the Siemens and Microsoft alliance, visit www.microsoft.com/siemensplm or www.siemens.com/plm/microsoft.

This white paper provides guidance to technical decision makers and IT professionals who are

evaluating database platforms for Teamcenter.

The paper begins with an introduction to Teamcenter, to Intel Xeon processors, and to Microsoft

SQL Server 2012, a proven database platform for enterprise Teamcenter deployments. The paper

discusses the many advantages SQL Server 2012 brings to Teamcenter, including manageability,

scalability, reliability, and affordability.

The white paper then presents benchmark test data that confirms that SQL Server 2012 running on

Intel Xeon-based processors scales to meet the needs of even large Teamcenter deployments.

Enterprise customers can be confident in the choice of SQL Server 2012 as a database platform for

Teamcenter.

Introducing Teamcenter

Teamcenter is a comprehensive portfolio of digital lifecycle management solutions built on an open

PLM foundation, and designed to provide users with secure, global access to a single source of

product knowledge. With a unified architecture and a robust set of applications, Teamcenter helps

companies implement end-to-end PLM by delivering a broad and deep portfolio of seamlessly

integrated modules to improve efficiency at each stage of a product’s lifecycle.

Teamcenter solutions support a wide variety of PLM initiatives—new product development and

introduction (NPDI); systems engineering; global product development; global manufacturing;

technical publishing; maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO); strategic sourcing and regulatory

compliance, and many other business functions. Table 1 summarizes these critical business tasks.

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Table 1. Critical business tasks addressed by Teamcenter

Critical business initiatives targeted by Teamcenter

New product development and introduction

Improve innovation by facilitating real-time global collaboration among all lifecycle participants

and processes.

Systems engineering

Define product functions from a system-level approach, managing the system requirements and

how they interact with sub-systems and components to ensure that the product is designed

correctly from a functional point of view.

Value-chain synchronization

Excel globally by optimizing the exchange of ideas and information between all value-chain

participants.

Enterprise data management

Improve competitiveness by providing secure access to an enterprise’s product and process

knowledge.

Commonization and reuse

Reuse proven parts, equipment, and processes to create cost-efficiency and foster best practices.

Technical publishing

Deliver documentation for a product—assembly, operation, and maintenance—in time for product

launch, taking advantage of configured design data that is presented in appropriate industry-

standard formats.

Knowledge/intellectual property management

Capture the knowledge and expertise of lifecycle participants to continuously improve innovation.

Regulatory compliance

Achieve market compliance by integrating safety, environmental, and government requirements

early in the design stage.

Production efficiency

Integrate product and process design with manufacturing best practices to increase production

quality and performance.

Mechatronics

Improve your customers’ value experience by integrating mechanical, electrical, and software

subsystems, relationships, and components.


The Platform Extensibility Services in Teamcenter include configuration services so that Teamcenter

can be easily tailored to an individual business without developing costly custom software. They

also include connection services so that Teamcenter can be seamlessly integrated with other

enterprise applications (including enterprise resource planning *ERP+ and other Teamcenter

installations) to enable enterprise-wide business processes. Customization services mean

Teamcenter can be extended with maintainable and upgradeable custom software to meet

specialized business needs.

With its flexible, four-tier, service-oriented architecture (SOA), Teamcenter can be deployed as

effectively in small businesses as it can in the largest global enterprises. Because each tier plays a

specific role in the Teamcenter configuration, each has different resource needs. These four

functional tiers include:

Client tier

Hosts client applications and secure file caches, and provides user interface input and

output processing. In the benchmark testing, this tier provided the load generation.

Web tier

Provides web-enabled access to Teamcenter services and enforces network security. In the

benchmark testing, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 was installed on this tier. The web

tier communicates with the enterprise tier.

Enterprise (or business logic) tier

Hosts business logic, applies security rules, and serves dynamic content to clients. This tier

is computationally intensive and requires a large amount of random access memory (RAM)

for efficient performance.

Resource tier

Stores persistent metadata in tables and persistent bulk data as files. This tier is the second

most resource-intensive because it includes the database server. Unlike the business logic

tier, the database depends heavily on an efficient input/output (I/O) configuration rather

than large amounts of RAM. In the benchmark testing, the database server was connected

to a storage area network (SAN) to meet the I/O requirements.

The four tiers are shown in Figure 1.


Figure 1. Four-tier architecture

Benefits of SQL Server 2012

The underlying core of a PLM system is the data collected throughout the product lifecycle; this

data is maintained in an enterprise database such as SQL Server 2012. Because PLM is at the heart

of a manufacturing business, and because the data that is collected is so critical, the choice of

underlying database is extremely important to ensure that the PLM solution keeps a company’s

business running.

SQL Server 2012 is a comprehensive, integrated, and enterprise-ready data-management software

solution. It provides a reliable, cost-effective, low-maintenance database framework for Teamcenter

that can support the largest and most process-intensive deployments. Hundreds of enterprises are

currently running 10 terabyte (TB) and larger transactional databases on SQL Server.

Running Teamcenter on SQL Server 2012 provides customers with many benefits:

Six nines (99.9999 percent) uptime availability

Teamcenter customers can protect their mission-critical databases from downtime and data

loss with six nines uptime availability.1,2

Faster to deploy

On average, SQL Server database administrators (DBAs) can install and configure new

database servers in 1.5 hours, while the largest competitor’s DBAs can take 6 hours.3

1 http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product-info/why-sql-server.aspx 2 http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-SQL-Server-2008-R2-Enterprise/Stratus-Technologies/Protect-your-

mission-critical-databases-from-downtime-and-data-loss-with-six-nines-uptime-availability/4000007136 3 http://www.alinean.com/PDFs/Microsoft_SQL_Server_and_Oracle-Alinean_TCA_Study_2010.pdf


Lower hardware cost

SQL Server can run on standard commodity server hardware, which can dramatically lower

the TCO for customers.

Lower software costs

The list price of SQL Server is a third of the largest competitors;4 in addition, SQL Server

includes major database-related features, such as high availability, remote disaster

recovery, partitioning, data compression, transparent data encryption, spatial, master data

management, complex event processing, extract, transform, and load (ETL), online

analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, reporting services, and self-service business

intelligence (BI) tools. Competitors’ licensing models add costs for options and add-ins.5

Simpler systems management and lower staffing costs

SQL Server database administrators can typically manage four times as many physical

databases as a competitor’s DBAs, leading to an estimated annual savings of $5,779 in

administrative costs per database, a 460 percent difference in annual cost of administration

per database.6,7

Most secure of any of the major database platforms

Since 2002, SQL Server has recorded the fewest reported vulnerabilities as compiled by the

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).8

With SQL Server, Teamcenter customers can save with reduced licensing, hardware, administration,

and support fees, which translate into substantially lower costs over the life of the system.

For more information about SQL Server 2012, visit www.microsoft.com/sql.

Additionally, Teamcenter is tightly integrated with the Microsoft Office system and Office

SharePoint Server, providing a familiar, easy-to-use user interface and extending the power of PLM

far beyond engineering and manufacturing departments to deliver:

Expanded, secure access to information across the company, using industry-standard

software for reporting and analysis.

Real-time, global collaboration across your extended value chain through both Teamcenter

and Microsoft Unified Communications—an enterprise-wide solution that combines e-mail

and instant messages, audio, video, web conferencing, and voice mail.

4 http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/tools/cost-savings-calclator.aspx 5 http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product-info/competitor-compare.aspx 6 http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/compare-oracle.aspx 7 http://www.alinean.com/PDFs/Microsoft_SQL_Server_and_Oracle-Alinean_TCA_Study_2010.pdf 8 http://itic-corp.com/blog/2010/09/sql-server-most-secure-database-oracle-least-secure-database-since-2002

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Benefits of Servers Based on Intel Xeon Processors

Servers based on Intel Xeon processors are well suited to the demands of mission-critical PLM

solutions and provide dramatic cost savings in comparison with proprietary reduced instruction set

computers (RISCs) and mainframe systems.

As demonstrated by the benchmark testing environment, servers based on the Intel Xeon processor

E5 family are ideal for web and application servers in the front and middle tiers of a PLM solution.

They are often deployed in distributed architectures that are highly resilient and easily scaled

through the addition of servers.

Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E7 family provide the high-end scalability and availability

needed to support large, transaction-intensive databases. These larger and more robust servers

include integrated support for all of the following:

Scalable performance

A single eight-socket server based on the Intel Xeon processor E7 family provides up to 80

processing cores, 160 threads, and 4 TB of memory for high-volume, transaction-intensive

T24 workloads. Large cache configurations (up to 30 MB per processor) keep frequently

used data close to the processor cores to reduce latency and increase throughput.

Data protection

Advanced circuitry detects and corrects errors across all major subsystems and

communication pathways and isolates uncorrectable errors so they can’t poison other data.

High availability

Built-in failover and automatic reconfiguration capabilities help to maintain uninterrupted

operation. Intel Machine Check Architecture-Recovery works in tandem with Microsoft

Windows Server to enable automated system recovery in complex error scenarios.

Serviceability

Built-in support for predictive failure analysis and partitioning enables problematic

components to be identified and replaced before they impact performance and without

bringing down the system for maintenance.

For more information about Intel Xeon processors, visit http://www.intel.com/xeon.

Benchmark Testing Overview As part of their strategic alliance, Siemens PLM Software and Microsoft ran benchmarking tests to

evaluate the performance and scalability of current versions of Teamcenter and SQL Server running

on servers based on Intel Xeon processors.

The tests, designed to reflect “real-world” conditions, were run at the Microsoft Enterprise

Engineering Center (EEC) lab in Redmond, Washington. The main goal was to successfully

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benchmark Teamcenter 8.3 in a horizontal server configuration9 with SQL Server 2012 and IIS 7.5 to

10,000 concurrent users using IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT).

Test Environment

In the benchmark tests, Teamcenter was run in a four-tier thin-client configuration, SQL Server was

used for the database software, and RPT 8.2, a user-simulation tool, was used for load generation.

This section provides detail about the test environment.

Network

The benchmark testing used two separate networks (from two network ports per computer): a

private network for benchmark data only and a public network for maintenance and monitoring.

Figure 2 shows the networks used.

Figure 2. Network overview

Software

The following software was used in the benchmark testing:

SQL Server 2012 RC0

Teamcenter 8.3

Windows Server 2008 R2

IIS 7.5

FlexNet Publisher (Flexlm v11.9)

RPT 8.2

9 Horizontal scaling is scaling by additional servers. Vertical scaling is scaling with processor power on a single, multi- processor server.


Hardware

Separate computers were used in the four tiers so that the resource usage could be accurately

measured during the benchmark testing.

Client Tier

The client tier consists of six identical computers: five RPT agents (the load generators) and a single

RPT workbench (the controller). Table 2 lists details of the client-tier hardware.

Table 2. Client-tier hardware

Client-tier hardware

Number of servers Six

Server model HP ProLiant DL380-G5

Processor type Intel Xeon 5150

Number of processors/cores per server Two with 2 cores (4 cores total)

Processor speed 2.66 GHz

Server RAM 16 GB

Web Tier

IIS 7.5 was installed and configured in the web tier. Three IIS web servers were used, and an F5

network load balancer (F5 BIG0IP 6800, 2 CPU) was added to the configuration. Table 3 shows

details of the web-tier hardware.

Table 3. Web -tier hardware

Web-tier hardware

Number of servers Three


Processor type Intel Xeon X5650



Server RAM 72 GB


Enterprise Tier

The enterprise tier, where the Teamcenter processes execute, is the most resource intensive tier; it

requires a large amount of RAM for efficient performance. To scale to 10,000 users, 10 identically

configured servers were added to a server pool in the enterprise tier, each supporting 1,000 users.

Table 4 lists details of the enterprise-tier hardware.

Table 4. Enterprise-tier hardware

Enterprise-tier hardware

Number of servers 10


Processor type Intel Xeon X5670



Server RAM 72 GB

Resource Tier

The resource tier is the second most resource intensive tier because it contains the database server.

In addition, this tier also contains a file management systems (FMS) server and a Flexlm server for

license management. Unlike the enterprise tier, the resource tier depends on an efficient I/O

configuration rather than on large amounts of RAM. In the benchmark testing, the database server

was connected to SAN to address the I/O requirements. Table 5 lists details of the resource-tier

hardware.

Table 5. Resource-tier hardware

Resource-tier hardware

Database server FMS server Flexlm server

Number of servers One One Two

Server model NEC Express

5800/A1080a

HP ProLiant DL380-

G6

HP ProLiant DL380-

G6

Processor type Intel Xeon E7-8870 Intel Xeon X5650 Intel Xeon X5650

Number of

processors/cores per server

Eight with 10 cores (80

cores total)

Two with 6 cores

(12 cores total)

Two with 6 cores

(12 cores total)

Processor speed 2.4 GHz 2.66 GHz 2.66 GHz

Server RAM 512 GB 72 GB 72 GB


Storage

Two types of storage were used in the tests: network-attached storage (NAS) and SAN.

Network-Attached Storage

The NAS was frequently accessed by application software, which loaded images and application

data. It was also used to store benchmark results data and setup scripts. All systems had access to

the NAS. Table 6 shows the details.

Table 6. NAS details

NAS configuration

System model NetApp FAS 6210

Fibre Channel drives 192 @ 300 GB serial attached SCSI (SAS) drives (57.6

GB raw)

Solid-state drives None

Connectivity Gbit Ethernet

Performance acceleration module (PAM) II

memory 512 GB

NetApp storage system was managed through a separate management network. A total of 32 drives

were allocated to the Teamcenter environment. Storage was accessible to all clients and servers

from the public network. Figure 3 shows the NAS configuration.

Figure 3. NAS configuration

For more information about NetApp storage systems, visit www.netapp.com.

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Storage Area Network

The SAN was accessed exclusively by the database software: SQL Server was installed on local disks,

but database and log files resided on the SAN. There was also a SAN device for backup data. Table 7

shows details of the SAN.

Table 7. SAN details

SAN configuration

System model EMC CX4-480

Fibre Channel drives 140–450 GB 15K = 63.0 TB raw

SSD drives 10–100 GB = 4.0 TB raw

Connectivity 4–4 GB Fibre Channel ports

Cache 32 GB

Figure 4 shows the SAN configuration.

Figure 4. SAN configuration

For more information about EMC, visit www.emc.com.

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Benchmark Test Procedure

The tests were designed to simulate typical PLM users in the first three and last three hours of their

work days. The benchmarking tests were performed with the RPT 8.2 user-simulation tool according

to the following general steps, shown in Figure 5.

1. The entire environment is reset to a pristine state and checked for configuration and

operational readiness.

2. A performance engineer logs on to the workbench (the controller) as an administrator and

starts the benchmark.

3. The workbench requests an RPT license from the license server.

4. The workbench sends the tests to the agents (load generators) and continues to

communicate with them.

5. The agents simulate users and access the IIS and FMS servers.

6. The benchmark continues for six hours, and then the workbench gathers data from the

agents.

7. Response-time and server-utilization metrics are collected and charted.

Figure 5. RPT configuration


Each RPT test consisted 50 percent documentation users, 25 percent data-review users, and 25

percent data-analysis users.

Table 8 shows the activities for the three types of users. Each activity includes multiple Teamcenter

operations (transactions). In total, 53 separate Teamcenter operations were executed.

Table 8. Activities for each user type

Documentation users Data-review users Data-analysis users

Log on Log on Log on

Create form Open worklist View properties

Create dataset View image View BOM

Save as a dataset View where referenced Create folder

Edit dataset View where used Copy item

Delete form Display bill of materials (BOM) report Paste item

Revise ItemRev Save item properties Cut item

Delete ItemRev View ItemRev Delete folder

Log off Address list Expand below

Log off Log off

The database used was developed specifically for the benchmarking tests at the Siemens

Automated Performance Analysis facility in Cypress, California. The database consisted of 10 user

groups with 10,000 users each. Each group had nearly 40 GB of volume data. The first 1,000 users in

each group had their own, unique data (part files, assemblies, and user-specific data); the

remaining users had accounts with only home and inbox folders.

The user profile, shown in Figure 6, begins with a ramp-up period to mimic user behavior at a

typical company: some users arrive early, most arrive at the normal start time, and some arrive late.

As soon as they log on, users begin to perform activities such as creating and deleting folders,

viewing properties, and copying items. Figure 6 shows the user profile over the six hour simulation.


Figure 6. User profile

Benchmark Testing Results

The benchmark tests were first run as “functional benchmarks,” with single and then multiple users

(less than 1,000 users), using SQL Server 2008 R2.10 These early tests were focused on validating the

overall benchmark environment, with more emphasis on framework and process than on

Teamcenter and SQL Server. The number of users was then increased in subsequent tests until

10,000 concurrent users were reached. SQL Server 2012 RC0 was then installed in the environment

for the remainder of the benchmark series.

Horizontal Scalability

Teamcenter scaled very well horizontally, distributing the workload evenly across multiple

application servers. This ability to scale horizontally benefits small customers, who can purchase

smaller, less-expensive hardware to expand their server pool.

SQL Server 2012 Performance

SQL Server performed remarkably well in the benchmarking tests with minimal tuning. Average CPU

utilization was essentially linear with concurrent user count, signifying a close correlation between

user count and average CPU utilization (for example, 10 times as many users implies 10 times the

average CPU utilization). This makes server hardware requirements very predictable.

10

Including Cumulative Update 7 (CU7)


Figure 7 shows the SQL Server utilization versus the number of concurrent users.

Figure 7. SQL Server CPU utilization

For SQL Server 2012, the average CPU utilization on the database server was even lower than that

for SQL Server 2008 R2, at 10.6 percent, with a peak of 29.8 percent for 10,000 concurrent users. An

average of 76.4 GB of RAM was used.

Figure 8 shows the SQL Server 2012 CPU utilization over the duration of the benchmark for 10,000

concurrent users.

Figure 8. CPU utilization for 10,000 concurrent users with SQL Server 2012


User Experience

Overall, weighted average response times from the web tier were on par with some of the fastest

ever measured in the Siemens Automated Performance Analysis facility, with only a three percent

slope in the impact to response times from 1,000 to 10,000 users. Figure 9 shows the weighted

average response times for example user counts.

Figure 9. Weighted average response times from 1,000 users to 10,000 users

Increasing the load on Teamcenter to 10,000 concurrent users maintained stable transaction

response times and linear growth of system resources.

Summary Scalability and stability are important to Teamcenter users. Customers want assurances that as their

organizations grow and the number of Teamcenter users increases, their database platform can

maintain the performance they rely on.

For more than 15 years, Siemens has worked with Microsoft to integrate the Siemens PLM family of

software with Microsoft products and technologies. Benchmark testing and product optimizations

are part of this joint effort.

The benchmark tests designed by Siemens PLM Software simulate the real-world usage patterns of

large Teamcenter customers. The results show that Teamcenter running with SQL Server 2012 and

Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise on servers based on Intel Xeon processors can support at least

10,000 concurrent users while maintaining optimal performance. The combination of software

scaled easily to 10,000 concurrent users with excellent performance. Siemens PLM Software

customers can select SQL Server as the database platform for large and complex Teamcenter

deployments with confidence.


Additional Information The following references provide more information about Siemens PLM Software and Microsoft.

About Siemens PLM Software

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading

global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 7 million

licensed seats and more than 71,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas,

Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies to deliver open solutions that help

them turn more ideas into successful products.

For more information about Siemens PLM Software products and services,

visit: www.siemens.com/plm.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services, and

solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

For more information about Microsoft products and services,

visit: www.microsoft.com.

About Intel

Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices to continually advance how people work and live.

For more information about Intel products and services, visit: www.intel.com.

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