KPIs in Analysis Services

KPIs or Key Performance Indicators are one of the most important entities in driving business decisions. It can be defined as a (quantifiable) measurement used to define and measure an organization's progress in achieving business goals. KPIs for an organization are decided upon by giving careful thought to how each goal and the progress towards these goals should be measured. Business processes throughout the organization would be taken into consideration, and KPIs decided for them. Sometimes KPIs would be created out of other KPIs, where the child KPIs give a weightage of themselves in order to calculate the parent KPI's value. Though decided upon at the very beginning of a business intelligence project, KPIs are almost always created towards the end of it.