Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. The act of monitoring KPIs in real-time is known as business activity monitoring. KPIs are frequently used to "value" difficult to measure activities such as the benefits of leadership development, engagement, service, and satisfaction. KPIs are typically tied to an organization's strategy (as exemplified through techniques such as the Balanced Scorecard).
The KPIs differ depending on the nature of the organization and the organization's strategy. They help an organization to measure progress towards their organizational goals, especially toward difficult to quantify knowledge-based processes.
A KPI is a key part of a measurable objective, which is made up of a direction, KPI, benchmark, target and time frame. For example: "Increase Average Revenue per Customer from 10 to 15 by EOY 2008". In this case, 'Average Revenue Per Customer' is the KPI.
KPIs should not be confused with a Critical Success Factor. For the example above, a critical success factor would be something that needs to be in place to achieve that objective; for example, a product launch.

Again a week with a lot of meetings. Both fun and business, good combination. Getting us up to speed with Business Intelligence applications.

The Boys (one girl) formerly known as the logistics BU of the large swedish SCM vendor. What a great evenig we had!

Fermat:

Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos, et generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos eiusdem nominis fas est dividere cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.

Naval sword, early 1800.
Erry vanB, thinking over a new and upcoming deal for the large Swedish ERP vendor. Thank you for your help sofar.
Visible progres, drain, electricity and water built in, waiting for the plaster and the kitchen.

This is the "commercial" building I love most. It is placed near the canal (background) It is from a time where industrial architecture came into place.

On this place the "Ice festival" will take place. There was (of course) a tremendous controversy in my hometown. Lot of people seem to be against it. Pimp the events (in style) and organize as much events as possible in order to set the town on the map.

the straycats have the best life.

work!

A2 "Zaltbommel" Dutch skies

Warp speed, same A2 late at night!

As an art lover I am very happy that I could obtain the above painting. "City on the riverbank".

To my surprise it is not Cray who is the nr. 1 in the top 500 supercomputers.

IBM´s Blue Gene is a computer architecture project designed to produce several next-generation supercomputers, designed to reach operating speeds in the PFLOPS (petaFLOPS) range, and currently reaching sustained speeds over 360 TFLOPS (teraFLOPS). It is a cooperative project among IBM (particularly the Thomas J. Watson Research Center), the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the United States Department of Energy (which is partially funding the project), and academia. There are four Blue Gene projects in development: BlueGene/L, BlueGene/C, BlueGene/P, and BlueGene/Q. (source wikipedia)

SaaS

Future ERP lies at small and medium sized businesses.

Takeovers in the market of ERP are not aimed at killing the competition but on widening and deepening the own portfolio of products. Small and medium sized businesses are more and more the growing market for the ERP applications. Software as a service (SaaS) could be a rather good model.

Just a nice picture with the Leica.

Alan Turing (green circle)

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer.
Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, formulating the now widely accepted "Turing" version of the Church–Turing thesis, namely that any practical computing model has either the equivalent or a subset of the capabilities of a Turing machine. With the Turing test, he made a significant and characteristically provocative contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence: whether it will ever be possible to say that a machine is conscious and can think. He later worked at the National Physical Laboratory, creating one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, although it was never actually built. In 1948 he moved to the University of Manchester to work on the Manchester Mark I, then emerging as one of the world's earliest true computers.