About Metrics Center

The Metrics Center is implemented and managed by PlexLogic. Metrics Center offers two initial services to connect people, information, and actionable analytics. These are the Metrics Catalog and YouAreHere Benchmarks.

The mission of Metrics Center is to connect people, information, and analytics for the purpose of transforming data into knowledge, action, and ultimately value.

Connecting People:

A critical success factor for the Metrics Center is to attract thought leading organizations and indivuduals as contributors and reviewers of the content on this site. We aim to leverage your collective knowledge and experience to create a unique resource that is a living and breathing reflection of the state of the art in thinking by numbers and applying derived insights to drive better decisions.

We are constantly looking for experts in the areas of quantitative analysis, IT and security technologies, management of complex processes, information assurance best practices, standards, requirements and regulations. Our mission is to provide a framework that faciltates sharing, organizing, and harmonizing a wide variety of information from heterogeneous sources.

Connecting Information:

The value of quantitative results increases dramatically when they incorporate analysis that encompass multiple sources. These sources can be instrumentation from the IT infrastructure, control process performance indicators, financial data, personal and organizational data, and information about requlatory requirements. Metrics Center provides a framework that faciltates sharing, organizing, and harmonizing a wide variety of information from heterogeneous sources. In this preview, we has selected two foundational services: a metrics catalog and a rudimentary benchmarking service. The catalog provides a framework for complete and unambiguous metric definitions as well as a facility for providing ratings and reviews of a metric's effectiveness. The YouAreHere service supports the full lifecycle of a metric from initial data acquisition to presentation in a dashboard, with the added nuance that it crosses enterprise borders.

Connecting Analytics

Computing metrics from raw data and visualizing results must address a wide variety of audiences, formats, and media. This preview edition provides a framework for specifying recommendations for visualization as part of the definition of a metric. Additionally, the YouAreHere scorecard is an example of benchmark visualization.