Business Activity Monitoring, or BAM, provides real-time business intelligence by capturing data as it flows through a business system. By using BAM, you can monitor a business process in real time and generate alerts when the process needs human intervention. Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk 2009 focuses on Microsoft’s BAM tools, which provide a flexible infrastructure that captures data from Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, .NET applications, and BizTalk Server.
This book shows why BAM is an important component of any BI strategy because it bridges the gap between BI and business process management.
- Part One of the book covers the basics of BAM. It teaches you how to install BAM, and then it leads you through a complete but simple project to capture data from a WCF service
- Part Two of the book describes the BAM toolset. It shows you how to define the data that is captured by BAM, wire up a BizTalk application for BAM, and view BAM data using the BAM Portal
- Part Three of the book focuses on monitoring applications written in WCF or WF. It also shows you how to use the BAM API
- Part Four of the book covers advanced topics in BAM. These topics include integrating BAM with Microsoft’s BI stack, creating relationships between BAM activities, managing BAM servers, and monitoring BizTalk applications using BAM
This book contains numerous exercises to help you learn BAM. Source code for the samples is available from Apress.com.
For many CIOs, BI is top on their priority lists. Learn why with Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk 2009.
What you'll learn
- Show users what your application is doing and how their business
- Implement a BAM solution without writing any code
- Monitor applications written in WCF, WF, and BizTalk Server
- Create an observation model to define the data that BAM will collect from your application
- Use the BAM API to implement custom BAM solutions
- Manage a BAM solution
- Integrate BAM with your BI strategy and Microsoft’s BI tools
Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone who wants to know what’s happening in their organization, right now!
Developers building WCF, WF, or BizTalk applications will learn how to monitor those applications without writing extra code. Architects will learn how to bridge service-oriented architecture, business process management, and BI. Decision makers will learn how to see what’s happening inside business processes. BI specialists will learn how BAM provides real-time capabilities that supplement any BI strategy. Business users and analysts will learn how BAM allows them to understand what’s happening in the business every minute of every day.
About the Apress Pro Series
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About the Author
Jeff Sanders is a group manager/solution architect with Avanade in the US East region, where he focuses on BizTalk, SharePoint Server, WCF, WF, and .NET, and reducing complexity. Avanade is a global IT consultancy specializing in applied solutions based on the Microsoft enterprise platform and is coowned by Accenture and Microsoft.
Jeff speaks at local and regional user groups and code camps. He was a cowriter of the BizTalk 2006 R2 Microsoft certification exam, as well as other Microsoft PRO-level exams, and has served on Alpha reviews. He is one of few to have achieved a perfect score on the BizTalk 2006 exam. He was a technical reviewer of Pro Mapping in BizTalk Server 2009 (Apress, 2009) and WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ (Packt Publishing, 2008). Jeff holds a degree in journalism and mass communications from Elon University.
Geoff Snowman is a lead programmer analyst in the Internet Business Unit of GEICO, where he works with BizTalk Server, Windows Communication Foundation, and service-oriented architecture. Prior to joining GEICO, Geoff was a senior consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services. At Microsoft, Geoff helped customers to implement SOA on the Microsoft platform, working with the complete Microsoft application platform.
Geoff is a frequent and popular speaker at user groups, conferences, and code camps. Geoff has been in computing since 1983. He has an M.A. degree in computer science from Cambridge University and is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer, Microsoft Certified Database Administrator, and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. Geoff has been working with BizTalk Server since the tech preview version of BizTalk 2000.
Book Details
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (July 13, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430219149
- ISBN-13: 978-1430219149
- File Size: 6.6 MiB
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