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Work with Features in the Service Evaluation Page

You can work with features on the Services Evaluation page to view, evaluate, and report on data from Cloud Commons for a selected service category.

The left pane captures a summary of the comparison information by measurement collection:

Data Completeness

Indicates a data completeness percentile, calculated based on the number of subcharacteristics that have observations.

Total Observations

Indicates the total number of observations made for the service on Cloud Commons.

Average Observation Age

Indicates the average number of days observations have been collected on Cloud Commons for the service.

The right pane displays category comparison and confidence information. Hover over one of the comparison characteristics to display a popup with more information for that characteristic. The "SMI Confidence" popup displays the following information:

Completeness

Indicates what percentage of the subcharacteristics have SMI observations.

Total Observations

Indicates the total number of observations for the characteristic

Average Observation Age

Indicates how many days on average observations have been made.

As you work with the information in the Evaluation page, you can use weighting and demographic features to broaden your comparison criteria:

SMI Weighting

Use the default "Natural" weighting in which each characteristic in the comparison framework is given equal weight, or select another weight from the drop-down list. You can also create a new weight.

Filter by Demographics

Use options in the popup dialog that opens when you click this link to set filters for comparison aspects like industry, company size, revenue size, and so on. For example, you can filter for companies of 100-200 employee range in the Finance industry based in the United States by selecting the options from the drop-down menus. If you do not want to filter, you can use the default setting which includes all choices in the given category.

The demographic filter is useful way for you to expand your search beyond the higher level comparison options.

Export to a PDF file

Click the export icon to export your comparison data to a PDF file. You are prompted to save or open the file.