- A new price calculation rule can be added to the pricing engine within 4 hours.
- The daily sales report for a single product category is generated within 10 seconds.
- When storage devices fail, the system gracefully shuts down (instead of crashing uncontrollably).
- The web client requires <5MB per browser session.
- Should the system run out of memory while processing the xyz algorithm, it will not crash, but will report the situation to an administrative user, stop the xyz process and return control to the interactive user within 30 seconds.