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Creating a custom business activity monitoring user interface using DB2 Alphablox Query Builder

Manisha Sharma Kohli (shmanisha@in.ibm.com), Consulting IT Specialist (BPM), IBM

Manisha Sharma Kohli is a BPM architect in the World Wide WebSphere Business Partners Organization, which is a part of IBM Software Group. She has almost 10 years of experience in the IT industry, and her area of specialization includes the complete IBM WebSphere BPM portfolio, covering WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Process Server (now part of IBM Business Process Manager V7.5), WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Business Services Fabric, IBM BlueWorks Live, WebSphere Business Space and ILOG BRMS.

In her current role, Manisha works with IBM's strategic business partners to drive their technology adoption, support them on proof of concepts (POCs), request for proposals (RFPs), architecture development and enablement. She has successfully led several partner and customer engagements and is a well-known BPM subject matter expert in IBM and the partner community.

Manisha is also an avid innovator and has made significant contributions to IBM's intellectual property, including patents, the Technical Experts Council (Academy of Technology affiliate) and forums like developerWorks. Manisha can be reached at shmanisha@in.ibm.com.

Summary: In this tutorial, you'll learn about the powerful features of the DB2® Alphablox Query Builder, included with WebSphere® Business Monitor, to build a custom user interface for monitoring solutions. This approach is useful when you don't want to use Business Space, but need an interface that's easy to customize to your desired look and feel, or when you want to embed the monitoring application into an existing UI.

Date: 17 Aug 2011
Level: Intermediate

Activity: 9557 views
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Verifying the dimensional data in Business Space

Before building our custom analytical user application, it's a good idea to configure a Dimensions widget in WebSphere Business Space to make sure the data is getting generated according to the modeled dimensions. For information on how to configure this view, refer to the "Analyze data in dashboards" section of Dimensional analysis in business activity monitoring (BAM), Part 1: Leverage WebSphere Business Monitor V6.2 to perform dimensional analysis. Figure 8 shows a sample Dimensions widget that enables viewing of the monitored data against certain pre-defined dimensions:

Figure 8. Purchase order business object definition
Purchase order business object definition