BPM - Process Performance Indicators and Process Monitoring

Hi,
In SAP BPM, is there any way to get some reports or dashboard with key PPI (Process Performance Indicators). What we are really interested in is to know how many times a month a process or a specific task of a process has been run, how many time it took to complete the task, was the task completed on time, where are we in the process right now, etc?
We have just started to look into SAP BPM, but my first impression is that it is more a modeling tool along with some taks coordinations. I feel like it's missing the key analytics to really drive innovation in our processes.
Probably that I'm wrong and I've missed something. Please let me know if there is a way to do that, if there are any workarounds or if there are any SAP partners that offer a solution that we could use along with SAP BPM.
Thanks a lot!
Martin

Thanks for your feedback.
We want to implement a SAP BPM scenario in a finance process for the VAT Tax reporting. So basically, our accountant needs to run some SAP transactions along with some manual outside steps. Then the supervisor will perform some checks and finally the tax manager needs to approve it.
There is some interactions with SAP but only for a small part of the process. What we want to achieve is to be able to see the key performance indicator for our process. But at the moment this is not delivered with SAP BPM. I've heard that this may come in the next release end of 2009, but in the meanwhile I'm wondering if other people have been able to implement some customization in Net Weaver or have found other alternatives to be able to monitor their process adequately.
Thanks
Martin

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