IBM WebSphere® Business Monitor is business activity monitoring (BAM) software that allows you to measure business process performance, monitor in-flight and completed processes, and report on business operations. It provides real-time information on customizable business dashboards to identify business problems, correct exceptions and change processes to increase business competitiveness by improving process efficiencies.
Business users can personalize their role-based, secure dashboards to view the key performance indicators, metrics and report that are important to their role – without involving IT. They can receive immediate notification alerts and take appropriate actions. Detailed reports are provided for more in-depth analysis. The ability to closely monitor key business performance metrics enables you to continuously drive improvement and enhances your ability to innovate and optimize business processes.
What's New in V6.1.2
WebSphere Business Monitor, Version 6.1.2 has been enhanced with many new features and capabilities.
Extending the reach of business activity monitoring
The value from business activity monitoring increases as the range of activities available to be observed and monitored increases. IBM WebSphere Business Monitor, Version 6.1.2 provides new ways of gaining access to more events and data in order to make KPIs and dashboards a more comprehensive representation of business performance:
- WebSphere Business Monitor can now receive events from WebSphere Business Services Fabric, offering additional visibility into dynamic process execution in the WebSphere Business Services Fabric runtime environment.
- WebSphere Business Monitor can monitor events from WebSphere Business Events. Using Business Event Processing technology, WebSphere Business Events detects business situations that are sent as events to WebSphere Business Monitor. WebSphere Business Events provides earlier insight and detection of business situations by correlating and detecting patterns in the stream of business events. WebSphere Business Monitor thus is able to provide more comprehensive insight and analysis to business users based on these additional data streams of business events.
- WebSphere Business Monitor can monitor the WebSphere Message Broker runtime environment. Receiving events from WebSphere Message Broker enables you to use your investments in WebSphere Message Broker to help provide real-time visibility into your business processes and operations.
These additional data access options build on the ability of WebSphere Business Monitor to track process activities from IBM software such as WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Process Server, IBM FileNet P8 Business Process Manager, WebSphere MQ Workflow, WebSphere MQ and WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances, as well as from non-IBM applications.
Empowering business users through enhanced capabilities
- Users can now collaborate on dashboard design through enhancements to WebSphere Business Modeler Publishing Server. Users can upload static images of dashboard designs, enabling business analysts and IT developers to collaborate and make quick iterations on the dashboard design.
- Business users can now change business relevant rules. With this enhancement, business users can modify the business rules parameters directly from within their monitoring environment when WebSphere Business Monitor is used with WebSphere Process Server. This feature allows business users to respond very rapidly to changing business conditions.
- New dashboard features such as the ability to switch visualization types directly from the dashboard, an increased choice of color palettes, and new visualizations types improve the dashboard experience for the business users. These features help business users benefit from greater productivity and do not require IT involvement.
- Additional flexible options enable you to access the information you need, where you need it. You can now view and manipulate KPIs, alerts, and human work information from a Blackberry. From your Windows desktop, you can search for and view KPIs using Google Desktop Search.
Accelerated time to value
- Graphical debugging of monitor models: WebSphere Business Monitor Version 6.1.2 introduces a number of innovations to enable you to reduce the time to deploy monitoring solutions, resulting in faster return on investment. Monitoring models can now be debugged using graphical means. With the debugger, an IT developer can step through the execution of monitor logic when an event arrives, set breakpoints, and examine the values of event fields and the effect on metrics. The debugger provides a graphical representation of all elements in a monitor model, such as metrics, triggers, stopwatches and counters, as well as the sequence of steps that will be processed as events are being consumed. This enables developers to quickly identify problems in the monitoring models, reducing the time to develop new monitoring solutions.
- Life-cycle management of monitoring models: The Monitor Model Editor uses Rational Asset Manager so that monitoring models can be published to the asset repository. Integration with Rational Asset Manager enables users to manage large numbers of monitoring models, along with their other BPM assets, through the BPM life cycle. Users can browse assets in a structured view that is tailored to the monitoring model. Similarly, users can import assets from the repository into the Monitor Model Editor. This feature helps users manage their monitoring models, perform impact analysis, and track usage to accelerate the development and deployment of monitoring solutions.
Support for a broader set of operating environments
WebSphere Business Monitor, Version 6.1.2 provides expanded support for operating systems, including SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server for System z™ and Sun Solaris.
