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Use Case: Capacity Planning

The purpose of the following use case is to illustrate how example.com, a fulfillment service organization approaches capacity planning by modeling the usage of their order fulfillment web service. The use case is referenced throughout this chapter for examples.

The company is planning to deploy SOA Security Manager to protect its web service. The company has 10,000 users in a single user store.

Some web service clients send a single status request to the inventory operation of the web service once a day while others may send as many as four batched order requests per day to the fulfillment operation.