SAP provides Best Practices for ensuring their applications are configured and installed for optimal performance. Across the WAN, network issues including latency, reduced bandwidth, congestion, contention, and packet loss contribute to less than desired performance of the network for SAP® applications. The Blue Coat application delivery solution and SAP applications jointly provide an optimized solution for our globally operating customers. This paper is based on the results of an SAP Enterprise Services Community program project, in which a number of leading network and test solution vendors and SAP teamed up to build a production-like enterprise SOA-based application landscape, including the simulation of remote end-users and applications.