In order to monitor the success of a company or of orders, key performance indicators (KPIs) should be easily accessible on the basis of service entries created.

With the foreknown release 1.2 service-based KPIs have been introduced to retrieve e.g. billing quotes, average hourly rates on various levels. Furthermore a new start page provide a first "Quick Access" widget and we built the foundation for a user group based authorization for business objects.

Version 1.1.1 of foreknown is a minor release. With this version, the filtering options of services are improved. Furthermore, the application is now also available in English.

Every freelancer and every company has to deal with the "number ranges" before creating business objects such as customers, offers, orders and invoices. Therefore, in this article we dedicate ourselves to the topic, on the one hand to show general requirements but also to give practical tips and a recommendation.