Measures enable you to collect objective, quantifiable data that indicates progress toward a performance or strategy target. For example, if one strategic goal is improved product quality, you could create measures called “number of product returns” or “poor customer satisfaction”. These measures would reflect product quality by identifying the number of product returns and dissatisfied customers.
Use measures to evaluate and monitor the progress of these objects:
You assign employees to measures to perform tasks such as entering results and defining targets.
You can use data from a Oracle Essbase database to create dimensional measures.
See Using Measures.