RAM

The reports that administrators generate often require that SQL Server be capable of loading, summarizing, and processing large amounts of data across multiple physical databases. Even if your organization doesn’t run complex reports, if there are multiple reporting administrators, the system may frequently be asked to generate several reports concurrently. This places high demands on system memory. As a result, increasing RAM may provide noticeable performance improvements.

Keep in mind that the operating system version and/or the version of SQL Server may limit the amount of physical RAM that can be used by the system.

Consult your operating system and SQL Server documentation to ensure that you utilize the maximum physical RAM possible in your chosen system.

See Other factors that affect the performance of Forcepoint reporting, for guidance on how the memory demands of Forcepoint reporting may increase or decrease based on how you use it.