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The Measure Builder of SEM Corporate Performance Monitor (SEM-CPM) is a tool for defining measures and comparison data, which focus on business decision-making and do not necessarily have to exist in the same form in the technical data basis. The Measure Builder allows to define an abstract data layer, which you relate to the key figures that actually exist in the data basis in a second step. In this case, the data basis is the transaction data in the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW).

Measure Builder opens up the possibility to model up-to-date tools for the assessment of enterprise performance in a flexible way. You can define measures of considerable complexity (for example Economic Value Added), or create a specific measure with different variants, if required..

The purpose of the Measure Builder is to make you independent from any possible technical limitations when creating a measure system. Measure Builder operates on a different level, where it is not dependent on the availability of transaction data. This makes it to a tool that is tailored to corporate business analysts (and not to system administrators).

Benchmarks are comparative data collected in market research studies, which can be used as a reference to find out if the key figure values of other businesses are higher or lower than those achieved by your business. Benchmark data that you either purchased from a benchmark provider or collected yourself. can come from many different sources:

• Data of a benchmark study.
• Data from other competitors, customers, suppliers.
• Actual and plan values of the own company.
• General business data.