1. A data warehouse system for managing performance of organizations, the data warehouse system comprising: a business model comprising: a first predefined set of shared common dimensions representing business reference aspects of a plurality of organizations, the predefined set of shared common dimensions including a first subset of shared common dimensions representing a second subset of the business reference aspects of a particular organization in the plurality of organizations; a second predefined set of measures representing measurements of business activity aspects of the plurality of organizations, the second predefined set of measures grouped into areas of analysis to answer business questions applicable to the plurality of organizations; and a third subset of the areas of analysis used to analyze the particular organization; a data model implementing the business model, the data model including fact tables and dimension tables, the dimension tables corresponding to the predefined set of shared common dimensions of the business model, the fact tables including the second predefined set of measures; a configuration unit for configuring the data model to represent the particular organization; a computer readable storage medium encoded with instructions for the business model and the data model; and a processor for executing the business model and the data model.