Definitions

A few definitions help you understand the concepts behind Business Performance Center.

Aggregation: A value that results from a mathematical operation.
Chart: A graphical representation of measurements from business data. The graphical representation, called graph types, can be bar, donut, gauges, and more. The value of the measurement can be a plain number or an aggregation.
Dashboard: A business monitoring tool that visually displays and tracks in several charts the performance measurements that you use to assess the health of your business.; Made of several charts
Dashboard template: A dashboard to which was assigned the TEMPLATE type in its JSON file. Templates cannot be directly edited or deleted as plain dashboards are.
Data domain: A data domain is a specific subset of data within a kind, such as a process in IBM Business Automation Workflow or a ruleset in IBM Operational Decision Manager.
Data kind: A data kind represents the available IBM® business automation products, such as IBM Business Automation Workflow and IBM Operational Decision Manager.
Goal: Charts can be associated to a business goal inside a dashboard.
Group by: A function that organizes your data into categories based on the values of a specific field, allowing you to display separate results for each category in a chart.
Measurement: A measurement takes business data and generates charts. The value of the measurement can be a plain number or an aggregation.
Monitoring source: A monitoring source is a list of data that a team can view and interact with in charts, dashboards, and goals. A monitoring source consists of data kinds and domains.
Permissions: A data access control that users with administrator role or with the appropriate Zen permissions can apply to users of Business Performance Center.
Team: In Business Teams Service context, a team is a collection of users, groups, and other teams that already exist, and reflects the work organization in your company.