Configure evaluation metrics

Alfabet provides predefined indicator types that are required to work with business questions. This enables users to evaluate different aspects about the performance of objects. The user specifies an indicator for a specific object and indicator type in a data workbench or an evaluation view. These preconfigured evaluation types and indicator types and their assignment to object classes cannot be changed.

Indicator types are grouped in evaluation types. Evaluation types structure the indicator types for the user in the the Evaluation view available for an object. All indicator types for the evaluation of a specific aspect of the business shall be grouped under an evaluation type with a title informing the user about the evaluated topic. For example, the pre-defined evaluation group Business Score groups all indicator types to evaluate the importance of the application for the business, like Business Relevance and Number of Users.

Indicators can be object-based or global:

• Object-based indicator types are assigned to object classes. If an evaluation type is assigned to an object class, users will be able to set indicators for all indicator types of the evaluation type in data workbenches and evaluation views for this object class. Users can view the results of the evaluation using the visualization capabilities in data workbenches.

  data workbench

  A data workbench is a data table that allows you to capture, edit, and understand large amounts of data.

• Global indicators are based on indicator types not assigned to an object class. These indicators are used to visualize evaluation results in content areas . They are based on computation rules and combine data from multiple objects. For example, a global indicator Current Application Costs can display the amount of money in the current budgets for all applications of your company.

  content area

  A content area is a view with a collection of tabbed pages. Each page may have multiple content items such as cards and views. Every asset has a content area where the asset's attributes can be defined as well as other relevant views to capture information.

You can define additional evaluation types and indicator types required for the business cases of your company. The definition of new indicator types requires configuration steps for evaluation type specification, indicator type definition and, for object based indicator types, assignment of the indicator type to one or multiple object classes.

Steps to create different indicator types

	Create a manually set indicator			Create a computed indicator
	Create an evaluation type			Create an evaluation type
	Define an indicator type			Define an indicator type
	Assign the evaluation type to an object class			Define a computation rule
				If the indicators is class based, Assign the evaluation type to an object class.
				Create a job schedule to compute the indicator