Part 1: Introduction
June 2004
Learn about business performance management (BPM) and the value it can bring to your organization. Uncover the inhibitors to success with BPM and see how the technologies and products within the IBM® BPM offering can overcome those inhibitors to deliver a significant return on investment.

Part 2: Retail scenarios and business performance management architecture
June 2004
Find out about the architecture of a business performance management (BPM) solution through specific user scenarios. These scenarios serve as the use cases for the BPM implementation in the remaining articles in the series.

Part 3: Model and monitor a business process with WebSphere Business Integration tools
July 2004
Use IBM WebSphere® Business Integration Modeler and IBM WebSphere Business Integration Monitor to create a business process to ensure retail stores in a fictitious company participating in a bottled-water promotion do not run out of stock. Create business rules and measures to monitor the status of the product and to enable preventive action.

Part 4: Build a strategic analytical system
August 2004
Create a strategic analytical component for the business performance management solution that aligns business measures with key performance indicators.

Part 5: Empower people with collaboration capabilities
September 2004
Discover how IBM Lotus® and WebSphere Portal software allows employees access to information and enables them to work collaboratively to meet performance targets.

Part 6: Add sense-and-respond capability
October 2004
Use IBM WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker event bus to add sense-and-respond technology to your performance management solution.

Part 7: Bring business context into IT management
November 2004
Find out how to bring sense-and-respond capability to the IT aspect of business performance management using IBM Tivoli® Business Systems Manager.