BAM

This session provides a demonstration of BAM 2.0's value as a monitoring framework. In particular we will observe how the analytics framework and WYSIWYG UI generation tools can be customized to monitor a retail store use case and a system operations use case without spending hours of development time.

Monitoring business activities in a service oriented architecture (SOA) translates into monitoring relevant web services. This means that capturing messages and statistics from servers deployed in the SOA deployment should be trivial to monitor and gain an insight into what happens in an organization.

Though this is the case, a monitoring solution needs to wary of other factors that get involved in serious monitoring use cases:

Increasingly IT professionals and business managers are taking advantage of business activity monitoring (BAM) to provide real-time visibility into the processes, transactions and workflows that are exposed as services within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). In his presentation at WSO2Con 2011, Tharindu explored the connection between BAM and SOA. He also provided a framework for customizing and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) using the revamped WSO2 BAM as an example. Here are highlights from his talk.

Tharindu joined WSO2 in May 2009 and is a Senior Software Engineer and Product Manager of the WSO2 Business Activity Monitor team. He founded WSO2 WSF/Spring during his intership for WSO2 in 2008. He also contributed to implementing Hessian Support for the WSO2 ESB. He took part in Google Summer of Code for 2008 for the open source JDK implementation Apache Harmony.

Business administrators face many concerns when monitoring the data collected within their SOA environment - analyzing data over a large volume of data set, formulating strategic decisions based on the findings of the analyzed data, identifying problem areas and finding out when and where problems are occurring.

Samisa Abeysinghe, WSO2 VP of Engineering explains about monitoring business activities in your enterprise with WSO2 Business Activity Monitor. Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a term coined by Gartner. The term reflects the interests in the strategic concepts of the zero-latency enterprise and straight through processing. The gap between when the data are collected and when they are available for decision making is defined as latency in this context.

WSO2 Business Activity Monitor (BAM) serves the needs of both business and IT domain experts to monitor and understand business activities within an SOA deployment. Join us for this one-hour webinar where Samisa Abeysinghe, Director of Engineering, WSO2, will enlighten you on how to exercise business activity monitoring with your SOA deployments to implement a complete feedback life-cycle in your SOA.