1. A data warehouse system for managing performance of organizations, the data warehouse system comprising: a database; a business model comprising: a set of common dimensions representing business reference aspects related to a plurality of organizations; and a set of measures representing measurements of business activity aspects applicable to the plurality of organizations, wherein the set of measures is grouped into areas of analysis related to the plurality of organizations; and a data model corresponding to the business model, the data model including fact tables and dimension tables, wherein the dimension tables correspond to the set of common dimensions, and wherein the fact tables include the set of measures; and a hardware-based processor configured to execute a configuration unit to configure the data model to represent a particular organization and to configure the database according to the configured data model, wherein to configure the data model, the hardware-based processor is configured to: determine a subset of dimensions from the set of common dimensions that are related to the particular organization; extract the subset of dimensions from the common dimensions such that only dimensions of the set of common dimensions that are related to the particular organization are included in the data model for the particular organization; determine a subset of measures of the set of measures that are related to the particular organization; and extract the subset of measures from the set of measures such that only measures of the set of measures that are related to the particular organization are included in the data model for the particular organization, and wherein the hardware-based processor is further configured to configure the database to conform to the configured data model such that the database includes the dimensions that are related to the particular organization and the measures that are related to the particular organization.