We’re now at a point where we can begin to bring the “BSM Dashboard” to life using TBSM’s real time state, status, metrics and KPIs. In this blog post we’ll walk through the steps required to turn our “BSM Dashboard” mockup into an actual “BSM Dashboard” template that will be loaded into TBSM and the process to use state driven icons to represent status in a more appealing manner than generic TBSM status shapes.   Open the BSM Dashboard Mockup Visio package I previously provided and remove the mockup placeholders from the areas circled... [More]

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In the previous blog post we walked through the use of the new Business Service Composer (BSC) to create a basic structure model in TBSM to underpin our “BSM Dashboard” content and the navigation model. We took advantage of the BSC’s ability to easily define a static model of resources related to the company, the line of business and how key attributes of a global application such as online order performance and application infrastructure might be rendered in TBSM. Static resources provide nearly the entire needed context to enable the... [More]

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Please see part 1 of this blog posting here .   We’ll be creating a new BSC Project for our demo. A BSC Project is the output of the BSC tool and is just a form of a DLA book with expressions of how static instances will be created and how policies will be implemented to act upon other SCR instances. Create a new BSC project as shown below and hit OK.     After creating the new BSC project you’ll now be placed in a project workspace tab for that project. All projects are listed under the Projects tab in the left window. If you’re working... [More]

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In my last post we identified some of the key elements needed for enabling a navigation model for our “BSM Dashboard”. We identified a basic structure model as part of that activity to enable us to display key content and have logical components to click on for navigation. This basic structure model resembles what would be instantiated within TBSM’s service model. The actual navigation actions will require us to think about our template model which I’ll touch on in an upcoming post. The Business Service Composer (BSC) is a new... [More]

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