Measures

The PPM system differentiates between various measure categories:

Differentiation by measure type

The following measure types are differentiated by the object type that the measure refers to:

Differentiation by process reference

Differentiation by definition

The listed measure categories can be combined, for example, you can define process instance-independent process measures.

All measure categories have in common that the concrete value of a measure describes a particular, measurable property of a process instance, for example, like time of execution or number of processors.   

Furthermore, measures can be grouped logically. The assignment of a measure to a group must be unique. This means that each measure can only be assigned to one group. The group structure is hierarchical and can be of any depth.