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:
Process measures are measures whose values are available for analysis at the entire process instance.
Function measures are evaluated based on function instances.
Relation measures are measures that are available for the evaluation of relations.
Cardinality measures are available for specific text dimension evaluations.
Differentiation by process reference
Process instance-dependent measures are measures whose values are calculated with a reference to process instances.
Process instance-independent measures are measures whose values are calculated without a reference to process instances.
Differentiation by definition
Standard measures are defined in the client-specific measure configuration file. A major part of these measures is preconfigured in PPM.
User-defined measures are defined by users in a particular module of the PPM user interface based on standard measures and then saved in a special XML configuration file. Preconfigured user-defined measures are also part of the Process Performance Manager scope of supply.
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.