Product overview
IBM® Business Monitor is a business activity monitoring environment that displays key performance indicators and metrics through dashboards. You can combine IBM Business Monitor with other Business Process Management (BPM) software to accelerate processes and facilitate business innovation. BPM governs an organization's cross-functional, core business process to achieve business objectives by directing resources from across the organization into efficient processes that create customer value.
- Define actions to take when specified situations occur.
- Capture business-related data from business applications, based on the monitor model that you define and install.
- Extract the measurement variables from the data.
- Transform the variables into metric and KPI values.
- Display the measurement values on your dashboard. For example, you can display instance diagrams in context in any annotated Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) diagrams. You can define elements to set colors, show and hide, associate metric and KPI values, and more.
- Provide business intelligence insight through dimensional analysis and reporting.
- Identify and notify you of operation failures for inspection and analysis.
Monitor models describe how events should be processed and how information should be collected for use with dashboards. The IBM Business Monitor development toolkit provides technical users with an environment for creating and testing monitor models.
The IBM Business Monitor server receives and processes events from business applications, and it can subscribe to business events from various sources, including IBM Business Process Manager and other applications in the business environment.
You can use IBM Business Monitor to correlate events from IBM Business Process Manager and a broad range of IBM middleware for end-to-end monitoring, including the following products:
- IBM Operational Decision Management
- IBM Integration Bus
- WebSphere® Enterprise Service Bus
- WebSphere ILOG® JRules
- WebSphere DataPower® X150
- WebSphere Sensor Events
- WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition
- Sterling Control Center
- CICS®
- IMS™
- IBM FileNet® P8
The events that the server receives reflect your business activity. Information processed from the events is stored in the Business Monitor database.
The monitor model can also be designed to provide end-to-end monitoring of your business transactions, even if those transactions are made up of discrete processes from different products.
You can configure the IBM Business Monitor server to detect special business situations and manage the resulting actions.
You use the Monitor dashboards to run your Monitor widgets. Using a supported web browser, you can display one or more uniquely configured widgets, such as Alerts or Instances, on a page of a dashboard space. You can group pages into one or more spaces.
You can also have dashboards automatically generated when you deploy a monitor model, instead of configuring the dashboards manually.