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Difference Between Concepts and Metrics

While concepts and metrics share the same structural components, they serve distinct purposes in the semantic model: Concepts:
  • Represent business entities or objects (things)
  • Focus on characteristics, properties, and relationships
  • Answer “what” and “who” questions
  • Typically have one record per business entity instance
Metrics:
  • Represent business measurements and KPIs (values)
  • Focus on quantification, aggregation, and trends
  • Answer “how much,” “how many,” and “how well” questions
  • Typically aggregate data across multiple records
Understanding this fundamental difference helps when designing your semantic model and deciding whether a particular business entity should be implemented as a concept or a metric.