You need a reliable system of metrics to measure your performance here.

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The ioSphere system delivers historical performance monitoring and reporting, live performance metrics, alerts and more to ensure production continues running smoothly.

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Differential tuition is a variant of performance-based funding, a system of allocating state higher education resources based on performance metrics such as degree completion.

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By investing in companies like Grasslands, Fullterton and other impact investors are laying the foundation for new finance-based theories, tools, and metrics to serve the needs of a sustainable economic system.

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Using football metrics that mirror the ones that guide the BCS system, we put together a full slate of NFL "bowl" games for the NFL, in which every team plays one postseason ga?me.

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That system already covers half the country and offers some very powerful traffic metrics.

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There's broad consensus that the U.S. needs a system that is competitive, responsive to consumers and equipped with clear metrics of value per dollar being spent.

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Eun saw content in terms of metrics and promoted what he called "The AOL Way, " a system for increasing productivity and page views that was less Ben Bradlee than Henry Ford.

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Two important metrics are latency (trader lingo for speed) and throughput (the amount of data a system can carry per second).

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