Measures

A measure is a numeric business term that is used by information analysts to measure the performance or behavior of the business. A measure can be used in an analytical requirement together with measures that share axes of analysis (dimensions).

Measures are grouped into measure sets for each analytical requirement. Measures can belong to multiple measure sets to indicate in which analytical requirements they are used. Measures can also be children of other measures, where a further decomposition is required.

Examples of measures include:

e.g. measure Credit Exposure
e.g. measure Credit Limit Amount
e.g. measure Total Unused Credit

Properties

Name (mandatory)

A business-meaningful, precise and short name in title case (all words start with a capital letter).

e.g. measure Credit Exposure
e.g. measure Credit Limit Amount
e.g. measure Total Unused Credit

Parent category (mandatory)

The category to which the measure belongs. All measures have the parent category All Measures .

e.g. measure Credit Exposure has parent All Measures
e.g. measure Credit Limit Amount has parent All Measures
e.g. measure Total Unused Credit has parent All Measures

Short description (mandatory)

A precise and short description of the measure.

e.g. measure Total Unused Credit has short description A measure that identifies the amount of entitled credit that has not been taken up.
e.g. measure Credit Limit Amount has short description A measure that identifies, for a group of Arrangements, the sum of the credit limits for those Arrangements.

Long description (optional)

A long description of the measure when the short description is not sufficient to precisely define it.

e.g. measure Credit Limit Amount has long description A measure that identifies, for a group of Arrangements, the sum of the credit limits for those Arrangements. This represents the potential total amount of credit risk to the Financial Institution represented by the Arrangements involved at 100% utilization.

Label (mandatory)

A label that identifies the type of term, the context in which this term is used, or both. All measures are labeled measure.

e.g. measure Credit Exposure is labeled measure
e.g. measure Credit Limit Amount is labeled measure
e.g. measure Total Unused Credit is labeled measure

Status (mandatory)

Candidate: A term that is proposed by a project team for consideration.
Note: This is the default value for the terms that are delivered in BPS.
Accepted: A term that is accepted by a project team and ready to be proposed as a standard at the enterprise level.
Standard: A term that is approved by the glossary authoring community and considered as a standard at the enterprise level.
Deprecated: A term that is designated as retired, and likely to be replaced by a standard term.

Data Type

The data type assigned to a term. The data type of a measure is always numeric.

Referencing Categories

Categories that reference the measure. Such categories only provide a view on a subset of measures and are typically used to define a project scope. The scope categories are defined below the Scopes category.

e.g. measure Credit Exposure is referenced by the Scopes >> Risk Analysis category
e.g. measure Credit Exposure is referenced by the Scopes >> Basel II P2 Involved Party Exposure category

Example (optional)

An example that illustrates an instance of the business term.

Associated Terms

The business terms that are associated with this measure. Measures are organized in hierarchies by using the Is a Type Of / Has Types relationship.

Is A Type Of relationship

Indicates the parent terms in the term type hierarchy. Measures can have one or more parents so a measure can appear in more than one hierarchy. The parent of a measure must be another measure or a measure set. The parent of a measure set is an analytical requirement.

e.g. measure Credit Limit Amount Is A Type Of measure Total Unused Credit
e.g. measure Credit Limit Amount Is A Type Of measure Ratio Of Security To Credit
e.g. measure Credit Limit Amount Is A Type Of measure set Location Exposure Measures
e.g. measure Credit Limit Amount Is A Type Of measure set Authority Profiling Measures
e.g. measure Total Unused Credit Is A Type Of measure Funding Requirement

Has Types relationship

Zero or more children terms in the terms type hierarchy. Measures that have two or more children are then calculated by using a formula that contains the child measures.

e.g. measure Funding Requirement Has Types Total Unused Credit
e.g. measure Total Unused Credit Has Types Credit Limit Amount
e.g. measure Total Unused Credit Has Types Total Credit Utilized

Related terms (optional)

Terms that are related in some way to this measure.

Formula

A formula that describes how a measure can be calculated. The formula refers to other terms by using basic mathematical operators (+, -, *, /).

e.g. measure Credit Exposure has for formula "Risk Weighted Unused Credit" + "Total Credit Utilized"
e.g. measure Total Unused Credit has for formula "Credit Limit Amount" - "Total Credit Utilized"

Assigned Assets

Lists data model elements assigned to this term in alphabetical order. This data model asset can be an entity or an attribute.

e.g. measure term Total Credit Utilized has assigned asset DWM attribute Credit Risk Analysis Fact . Total Credit Utilized
e.g. measure term Total Credit Utilized has assigned asset AWM attribute Arrangement Credit Usage Summary. Closing Utilization Amount

Created By

The user ID of the person who creates the term. When a special user ID is used to load the business terms content from the BPS, this user ID can be used to distinguish the BPS content from the customized content.