A central metrics store provides a single source of truth for key performance indicators.

When finance, sales and product teams all reference the same metric definitions, they can align on goals and avoid disputes.

Reusability improves efficiency: analysts don’t need to rebuild the same calculation in different tools.

Moreover, a central store can enforce data lineage, governance and security policies.

BARC found that self‑service authoring tools and embedded BI drive adoption; a metrics store underpins both by enabling self‑serve without sacrificing accuracy.

MageMetrics implements a metrics registry as part of its semantic layer.