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eBusiness Performance Measurement – Questionnaire

 (From the TPC-W Subcommittee)

What is the TPC?
The TPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry.

What is TPC-W?
TPC Benchmark™ W (TPC-W) is an industry standard transactional web benchmark. The workload is performed in a controlled Internet commerce environment that simulates the activities of a business oriented transactional web server.

What is the purpose of this Questionnaire?
The TPC-W Subcommittee is gathering feedback from the industry regarding current and emerging eBusiness technologies, features, and components, that are appropriate for inclusion in an industry standard eBusiness benchmark. By obtaining a common set of these vendor neutral features, the TPC-W Subcommittee intends to develop or enhance TPC eBusiness benchmarks.
 Company/Institution (optional)  


1. What is your primary job function?
Manager/Project Leader
Developer/Designer/Architect
Marketing/Product Management
Product or System Evaluation
Other (describe):

2. What type of involvement have you had with eBusiness Systems (more than one may apply)
Designer
Testing
Implementer
Sales
Purchasing
User
Other (describe):

3. Please indicate your familiarity with the TPC-W benchmark (more than one may apply)
Aware of the benchmark
Familiar with the benchmark and its contents
Have read the specification
Have looked at published results
Never heard of it

4. If you are familiar with the TPC-W benchmark, does it meet your expectations of an eBusiness benchmark?
Yes
No
Somewhat, please explain:

5. Who should be the target audience(s) of eBusiness benchmark results? (more than one may apply)
Small businesses
Medium businesses
Large enterprise businesses

6. What type of business model should an eBusiness benchmark represent?
'Business to Business'
'Business to Consumer'
Mostly 'Business to Consumer' with some 'Business to Business' functionality
Half 'Business to Consumer' and half 'Business to Business' functionality
Mostly 'Business to Business' with some 'Business to Consumer' functionality

7. Which Benchmark metric would you be most interested in:
End-End throughput number of the entire system
Performance of specific components
End-End throughput as a primary metric with secondary performance metrics on specific components

8. What functions/capabilities should an eBusiness benchmark measure? (more than one may apply)
Transparent Load Balancing
Dynamic Advertising
Shopping Cart
Credit Card Handling
Security
Open standard B2B capabilities
Product Catalog including Maintenance
Search Engine
Personalization
Membership Maintenance (Address, Credit Card, Password Changes)
Order Tracking
Automatic Vendor Order Management System (B2B)
Caching/Proxy Capabilities
Messaging / Queue processing
Other:

9. For the above features/functions, what percentage of these should be required to be implemented using commercially available eBusiness components or solutions?
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%

10. Should TPC-W require the integration of emerging web service technologies like: (more than one may apply)
SOAP?
WAP?
Other:

11. Should there be a requirement to implement features of an eBusiness benchmark with any of these OS independent communications protocols/languages? (more than one may apply)
XML
Java
C#
Messaging
Standard RPC Communication
Other:

Additional Comments: