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Microsoft, together with Unisys Corporation, completed benchmark testing of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 running on Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 operating system and Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 database software. Benchmark results demonstrate that Microsoft Dynamics CRM can scale to meet the needs of an enterprise.

• Enterprise Performance and Scalability
  
  This white paper provides an overview of the results and benefits of performance and scalability enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
  
  
  Performance and Scalability – User Scalability for the Enterprise
  
  These benchmark results demonstrate that Microsoft Dynamics CRM can scale to meet the needs of an enterprise-level, mission-critical workload of 24,000 concurrent users while maintaining performance at sub-second response times. Test results were achieved without customizations to simulate an out-of-the-box Microsoft Dynamics CRM deployment. This white paper describes the goals, methodology and detailed results of this performance benchmark.
  
  
  Performance and Scalability – Database Scalability for the Enterprise
  
  These benchmark results demonstrate that Microsoft Dynamics CRM can scale to data volumes of over 1 billion database records while maintaining performance at sub-second response times. Test results were achieved without customizations, and minimal optimization to simulate an out-of-the-box Microsoft Dynamics CRM deployment. This white paper describes the goals, methodology and detailed results of this performance benchmark.
  
  
  Performance and Scalability – Bandwidth Utilization Improvements
  
  Microsoft Dynamics CRM showed network utilization improvements of up to 94% in version 4.0. This white paper details the test results comparing version 3.0 to 4.0.

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File	SHA1 Hash	Size
Microsoft Dynamics CRM4_0_Performance and Scalability_Database.pdf	1a7cb059455157dc435f1b66e609a4fa46e53346	490 KB
Microsoft Dynamics CRM4_0_Performance and Scalability_Network.pdf	d5e8b7de0134d5555e774e522167fc1ca3a9e4d3	491 KB
Microsoft Dynamics CRM_4_0_Enterprise Performance and Scalability.pdf	6bce6882d9c5a3d16d2ca33f7c2f989f43787e10	313 KB
Microsoft Dynamics CRM_4_0_Performance and Scalability _Users.pdf	f85610fb58a7b66523af80b80b4ab80b2d56c1ee	549 KB

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