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Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide > Managing Your Partners > Process of Certifying Your Partners > Creating Certification MetricsThis task is a step in Process of Certifying Your Partners. Before you can create any certification templates, you must create certification metrics. A certification metric lets you find partners who are taking similar certification programs. For example, if you plan to develop a series of certification programs that require partners to take training courses, you could create a metric named # of courses taken. Then, when you evaluate partner performance, you can search on the metric field to list the certification programs that require training courses, and compare the performance of partners working on these programs. A certification metric also lets you define the criteria for a particular certification. For example, you could define multiple criteria for a partner company to become a Certified Reseller. One of those criteria could be to generate $20 million in revenue. You would define this criterion by choosing a predefined metric named Sales Revenue and assigning a target amount value of $20 million. A certification metric is not a mathematical formula that measures performance. Performance is measured using the Target and Actual fields of each certification definition. A metric lets you categorize criteria, so you can compare the performance of different partner companies measured using similar criteria. To add a new certification metric
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