Note 893348 - Hardware and Software requirement for NW2004s in SAPGUI 6.40

Summary

Symptom

Questions on hardware and software requirements for the Business Explorer (BEx)of SAP NetWeaver 2004s (BI front end for SAPGUI 6.40)

Other terms

BI front end, front, graphics, office integration
installation, desktop integration, SAP Client

Reason and Prerequisites

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Solution

Important related notes
"SAP GUI Resources: Hardware and software: 26417
"SAP GUI support": 147519
"SAP GUI pre-requisites: please refer to note 26417.


Preliminary remark 1
The Business Explorer of SAP NetWeaver 2004s is supported for the Win XP and win2000 platforms. The hardware and software requirements under
the different platforms are given below.

software requirement for Windows XP
OS : Windows XP
Browser : IE 6.0
Excel : 2002 and 2003

software requirement for Windows 2000
OS : Windows 2000
Browser : IE 6.0
Excel : 2002 and 2003



Other Requirements

.Net Framework version 1.1 is a pre-requisite for the Business Explorer of SAP NetWeaver 2004s in both the platforms. It's a freeware, which can be downloaded from the Microsoft site.
Older versions of Microsoft Excel, for example Microsoft Excel 97 and 2000, are not supported.
On the browser side Firefox is not supported at present.


The Business Explorer of SAP NetWeaver 2004s is tested under the following hardware and the hard disk space and the minimum and recommended memory requirement on these two platforms are also mentioned below.


Hardware Requirements

Hardware used in this case is Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz,1 GB memory and 40 GB HDD. The Hard disk space and Min and recommended Memory usage for the Business Explorer of SAP NetWeaver 2004s is mentioned below


HDD Space : 380 MB
Memory Min : 384 MB
Recommended : 512 MB

Note: The actual memory used under Windows XP platform is 146 MB.
The amount of memory used by OS before SAP GUI installation is 137 MB
The amount of memory used by OS after SAP GUI installation is 283 MB

(256 MB is still sufficient for XP, but sometimes when SAP GUI is executed the system may start swapping)

Note: The recommendations are based on a mimimum set of deployed applications (SAPGUI / BEx Analyzer). If end users work with additional applications (e.g. Query Designer, Web Application Designer, third party applications) simultaneously, especially the memory requirements may be significantly higher. For a more advanced usage of SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI we therefore recommend at least 1GB RAM, power users should have up to 2GB RAM installed on their front-end PCs.



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Reference to related notes

Number Short text
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889148 Web Dynpro Client for Windows: Support information
710720 SAP GUI for Windows 6.40: Delivery and new functions
710719 SAP GUI family and New Visual Designs
689063 SAP GUI for Java: Requirements for Release 6.40
681508 RTL SAPGUI: Arabic Language and F4 Help
679624 Upgrading SAPGUI 6.20 to access SAPNet R/3 Frontend
642523 RTL SAPGUI for Hebrew: Limitations and Hardware requirements
630648 SAPGUI for Java: Requirements for Release 6.30
525936 FAQ GUI in General and support strategy
509733 SAPGUI for Java: Requirements for Release 6.20
508649 Diagnosis of frontend installation problems
439629 IE6 - WebGUI compliance
415225 SAP GUI for Java (MacOS, BEX, CRM)
402189 SAP GUI 6.20: Features and Changes
390330 WF Builder/WF Explorer: Hardware/software requiremts
387944 SAP GUI for Windows XP
383270 Collective Note: Installing the SAP Solution Manager
369626 WF builder: Screens not complete with small screen resolutio
355426 Workplace: SAP GUI recommendations
354294 WP 2.11: SAPGUI for Windows in mySAP.com Workplace
331781 Windows ME support on SAP Frontend
305565 Front end resources test Win95/98
204643 SAPGUI resources (SEM): Hardware and software
203924 Performance 4.6 - collective note
196998 SAPGUI resources (APO): Hardware and software
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Header Data

Release Status:	Released for Customer
Released on:	21.02.2008 11:27:16
Master Language:	English
Priority:	Recommendations/additional info
Category:	Installation information
Primary Component:	BW-SYS-GUI BW Frontend and GUI