Metrics
A business metric is any type of measurement used to gauge some quantifiable component of a company's performance, such as return on investment, environmental footprint, and so on. Business metrics are part of the broad area of business intelligence, which comprises a wide variety of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help companies make better business decisions. Based on benchmark research, a draft set of metrics which could constitute an environmental footprint was developed. Participants in the forum submitted a blinded set of data for each of the metrics.