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Business Activity Monitoring and Management Panel Session Summary Draft. Event Processing Symposium March 14-16, 2006 Eric Wayne, IBM (on behalf of six panelists) ewayne@us.ibm.com. BAM Panelists. Summary– Common Elements.
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Business Activity Monitoring and ManagementPanel Session Summary Draft Event Processing Symposium March 14-16, 2006 Eric Wayne, IBM (on behalf of six panelists) ewayne@us.ibm.com
Summary– Common Elements • Industries: Energy, Financial Services, Manufacturing/Logistics, Shipping/Logistics • Integration of BAM with other software in customer environment • BPM, rules engine, packaged apps, legacy/custom apps, • System Management, • Business Intelligence • Recurring use cases • Track and trace • Process visibility spanning apps and silos • *External partners – where control leaves enterprise – key visibility pain point • Dashboards/alerts, detection of patterns representing an issue or situation • Impact of system events on business • Anticipate problems • Range of event volume metrics. Range of analysis, correlation techniques.
Summary– Common Elements • Issue: Scope creep on BAM requirements • When LOB views a dashboard, quickly see new possibilities/areas • When process being monitored are designed concurrently • Question discussed: is approach of using a standard event format necessarily in conflict with requirement for being non-intrusive to systems being monitored? • Issue: Out of order events, good programmer-free solution?