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Editing the Payroll Workload Profile
The next workload profile to be edited is the payroll workload. As with the web workload, the
screen shown in Figure 18-5 is the launching point for the workload profile customization. Sim-
ilar to the web workload, the historic profile for the payroll workload will not be modified to re-
move outlying data points. Since the resource requirements for the payroll workload are expected
to be flat over time, the forecast will not be adjusted.
The first customization for this workload is the editing of the baseline. As shown in Table
18-1, the Payroll workload runs on a biweekly basis. Customizing the baseline for this workload
makes the forecasting and what-if scenarios much more reliable and realistic. In order to cus-
tomize the baseline for this workload, a specific two-week period will be used for forecasting. As
shown in Figure 18-12, a two-week period ending on the most recent payday has been specified
for this workload’s baseline.
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Figure 18-11 Capacity Advisor Baseline Editor for Web Workload