Office Productivity

The Office Productivity scenario models productivity usage including word processing, spreadsheet data manipulation, email creation/management and web browsing.
SYSmark 2012 measures system performance by measuring the response time of tasks on a PC using real applications and simulated user input. In the SYSmark 2012 scoring methodology, task response times are used to generate a performance rating that reflects the user experience. The faster a PC responds to the application workloads in SYSmark 2012, the higher its SYSmark 2012 performance ratings will be.
Read, create and search for emails. Create and execute a rule on email inbox. Use multiple browsers to browse a blog, online shopping site, wiki site and social networking site. Check web mail in a private browser session. Combine multiple scanned pages from a complex document into an encrypted PDF document using optical character recognition (OCR). Create a PDF with fillable form fields from scanned pages. Archive a diverse set of files into an a single encrypted file. Use an advanced OCR program to convert scanned pages of complex and simple documents into editable word documents. Create a blog post and do a mail merge. Use a spreadsheet program to do data analysis. Create and view complex presentations that include clip art and video. Some of these activities are performed concurrently to model typical multitasking behavior.

Application	Version	Document Type
ABBYY Finereader	Pro 10.0	Image files, word processing documents
Adobe Acrobat	Pro 9	Portable document files, image files
Adobe Flash player	10.1	Flash animations
Microsoft Excel	2010	Spreadsheets
Microsoft Internet Explorer	9	Web pages
Microsoft Outlook	2010	E-mails
Microsoft Power Point	2010	Presentation files, image files, video files
Microsoft Word	2010	Word processing documents
Mozilla Firefox	3.6.8	Web pages
WinZip	Pro 14.5	Zip files, assorted document files

Data / Financial Analysis

The Data/Financial Analysis scenario creates financial models to review, evaluate and forecast business expenses. In addition, the performance and viability of financial investments is analyzed using past and projected performance data.
SYSmark 2012 measures system performance by measuring the response time of tasks on a PC using real applications and simulated user input. In the SYSmark 2012 scoring methodology, task response times are used to generate a performance rating that reflects the user experience. The faster a PC responds to the application workloads in SYSmark 2012, the higher its SYSmark 2012 performance ratings will be.
Generate sales forecasts by region and currency based on historical data, and produce summary graphs and pivot tables using a spreadsheet application.

Application	Version	Document Type
Microsoft Excel	2010	Spreadsheets

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 9 - Synthetic - Memory & Cache Bandwidth/Latency
Page 2 - Specifications / Delivery	Page 10 - Synthetic - Cryptography & Arithmetic
Page 3 - Layout	Page 11 - Synthetic - Multi-Media & Mutli-Core Efficiency
Page 4 - Connectors and I/O	Page 12 - Real World - Office Productivity & Data Analysis
Page 5 - BIOS	Page 13 - Real World - System Management
Page 6 - Test setup	Page 14 - Real World - Media Creation & 3D Modeling
Page 7 - Synthetic - WPrime1024 & UCBench 2011	Page 15 - Conclusion
Page 8 - Synthetic - CineBench

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