Business Activity Monitoring Resources (most recent article - October 2005)

Below you will find a list with links of Business Activity Monitoring resources including articles, white papers and analyst summaries. Please note that access to full-reports might require a subscription or purchase (indicated when you click a link). Note, Gartner has published nearly 30 research notes on Business Activity Monitoring (for a full list, visit them on the Web).

Sponsored Whitepaper Download	Date	Title	Summary & Link
	2004	Event-Driven Business Performance Management	This IDC white paper talks about the concept of the BAM and Event-Driven Business Performance Management. (this links takes you to a registration page)
Top Read	Date	Title	Summary & Link
	July 2002	Business Activity Monitoring: EAI Meets Data Warehousing	This cover story explains Business Activity Monitoring and discusses the importance of connecting real-time information for rapid issue discovery with historical decision support data from a warehouse. (PDF)
Other Sources (in date order)	Date	Title	Summary & Link
	October 20, 2005	Too Much Sense, Too Little Response	The ability to get real-time information on imminent events is crucial for companies seeking to become more responsive.
	October 15, 2005	Managing Process Innovation	Applying performance goals to business-process management drives growth and innovation.
	July 28, 2005	The CEO's Tech Toolbox	BAM is among the 10 new technologies that should be on the radar of every chief exec
Complex Event Processing (www.complexevents.com)	July 2005	Can we bring some order to the Business Activity Monitoring space?	Correspondingly, the market for Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) tools to aid in enterprise management has exploded into what is properly described as a chaotic marketplace.
	May 2005	The Business Benefits	Integration technologies can deliver far greater business value than purely linking up systems.
	February 1, 2005	Setting Priorities to Achieve Agility	Most organizations aren't prepared for performance management. Business and IT managers widely agree that performance management is important to meet corporate goals...
	January 2005	BAM Keeps a Finger On The Pulse	...growing number of Global 2000 companies seeking more, better, and faster insight into their business activities. These are the principles of BAM.
	November 15, 2004	BAM gives companies a real-time edge	Imagine pulling into a toll booth five years from now. The payment for the toll is automatically deducted from your bank account, just like it is today.
	October 20, 2004	There is nothing like a Dame at BT!	Recap of event where former director of MI5 discusses regulations and challenges including BAM.
	September 18, 2004	After the Dust Settles	A look at the current state of BI and where it's going.
	September 2004	Now is the right time for real-time BI.	Over the past year, real-time technologies have become more mature...companies are beginning to implement real-time BI and BAM applications.
	July 26, 2004	BAM Providers as Online Banking Fraud Preventers	Explaining the evolution of BAM and need for complext event processing.
	July 23, 2004	Your business, live on screen	Business activity monitoring serves up a dashboard readout of key performance indicators, updated in real time.
	July 10, 2004	The Information Cannot Speak for Itself	We can do a lot to integration and orchestrate information, but if that information is not presented to users well, then the investment can be for nothing.
	July 2004	Active Data Warehousing and Business Activity Monitoring	Interview discussing BAM and the relationship to Active Data Warehousing. How companies leverage them and impact business.
	June 29, 2004	BAM: The Art of Knowing What is Really Happening	BAM products embed more domain knowledge from the increased understanding of business data models garnered from numerous deployments, the value of BAM will rise.
	May 19, 2004	Getting a Red Alert of Poor Business Processes	Applying monitoring to BPM to provide faster reaction time. TIBCO introduces new BAM product.
	May 13, 2004	Oracle to Update App Server with Business Activity Monitoring	Article talking about Oracle's future plans to offer Business Activity Monitoring functions within its application server product.
	April 2004	BAM Changes IT Decision-Making	Any time a business manager says "I wish I'd known that yesterday," is a good example of real time, said Bill Gassman, principal analyst at Gartner Inc., Stamford, Conn.
	February 2004	What you Really, Really, Really Need to Know about BAM	Top Six Observations about BAM
	February 2004	BAM against the World	Not surprisingly, as executives clamor to get more information faster, the enthusiasm of the technology community toward the next big BI tools technology has been palpable.
	January 2004	Co-creating Value With Your Customers	Mentions BAM in article: Value creation, the central focus of managerial activity, is undergoing rapid change. Companies must build IT infrastructures that let all managers, especially line managers, experience the business as the consumer does, thereby achieving a new level of personal effectiveness.
	January 2004	Ad hoc BI is killing us!	For every several users who find a BI tool difficult to use, one person develops a destructive, co-dependent relationship with the tool.
	Dec. 10, 2003	BAM Gathers Momentum	Vendors from diverse backgrounds converge on the market.
	November 10, 2003	Eyes Everywhere	Business activity monitoring tools are emerging that watch and report on events as they unfold.
	Nov. 1, 2003	BAM	Somewhat like a bride on her wedding day, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) dons something old, something new and something borrowed...Put simply, BAM is about the real-time monitoring of key business metrics
	Oct. 1, 2003	BI: Real-time or right time?	There is little question that businesses can benefit from tools that help them to make decisions more rapidly. Regardless of whether it entails optimizing a supply chain or balancing trading positions, gaining real-time visibility may have huge benefits.
	Sept. 17, 2003	Breaking Out of the Warehouse	To many, BI is equivalent to data warehousing. Although data warehouses are important, they're not the total solution.
	July 29, 2003	BAM -- Fly or Die?	Let's decide what business activity monitoring is and isn't; end users must be business people or it isn't BAM
	July 18, 2003	The Big BAM	BAM is a key technology concept behind today's "real-time enterprise sizzle."
	July 7, 2003	Business Activity Apps Get Closer to Reality	Monitoring software lets companies analyze data in real time.
	June 30, 2003	Adoption of Dashboards Is About Presentation as Much as Data	The best of the best dedicate significant resources to understand and address presentation requirements.
	June 30, 2003	It's a Reality: Monitoring Business in Real Time	New BAM products hit the market
	June 10, 2003	How to Avoid the Rearview Mirror Approach to Business Monitoring	The case for business activity monitoring or BAM.
	May 27, 2003	BAM bolsters data visibility	BI players align with EAI vendors to access critical performance indicators.
	April 14, 2003	Hone Business Operations with Integration	Companies are combining data integration, EAI and business intelligence to deliver BAM solutions.
	April 5, 2003	When Time is Money	Real-time performance measurement can be a big advantage for many business processes.
	March 2003	Fast Tracking	Mobilize your management teams to meet the unexpected by continuously monitoring the business environment and quickly coming up with new solutions to threats and opportunities
	March 3, 2003	TIBCO Readies Reporting Tools	TIBCO discusses new business performance tool, BusinessFactor.
	March 3, 2003	IBM, TIBCO deliver views into Business Processes	New and enhanced products from IBM and TIBCO Software Inc. promise to give corporate analysts better views into how business processes running across a variety of integrated applications are operating.
	January 9, 2003	BAM, the New IT imperative	Explains the hype and vendors talking about Business Activity Monitoring.
	December 9 , 2002	Predicts 2003: Business Activity Monitoring Growing Pains	Business activity monitoring is already attractive for leading-edge projects, but its major growth will not begin until 2004. Meanwhile, vendors that will participate in this market must invest in product and business development.
	November 15, 2002	Why Proactive Business Intelligence is a Hallmark of the Real-Time Enterprise	Proactive BI plays a role in BAM and can help companies drive real-time decision making.
	October 17, 2002	TIBCO Details Its BAM Vision	TIBCO talks about the PRAJA acquisition and BAM Strategy. Gartner analyst comments.
	October 9, 2002	Infrastructure Going BAM	Many infrastructure players are attempting to add-value by focusing new offerings on BAM.
	September 2002	Business Intelligence Goes Real-Time	Business Activity Monitoring gives end users the opportunity to be proactive.
	Q3, 2002	Latitude 360 Partners with PRAJA inc. to co-market business solutions for Monitoring Clinical Trials.	Teamed BAM solution is specifically targeted at pharmaceutical clinical development executives and managers.
	7/26/02	Business activity monitoring gets boost	PROMISING TO SPEED data analysis and decision-making across the enterprise, vendors are beginning to embrace a technology trend that marries the worlds of application integration and business intelligence, according to industry observers.
	July 2002	Business Activity Monitoring: EAI Meets Data Warehousing	This cover story explains Business Activity Monitoring and discusses the importance of connecting real-time information for rapid issue discovery with historical decision support data from a warehouse. (PDF)
	5/3/02	Ahead of the Curve: Gartner Diary	Steve Gillmor talks about Gartner Symposium and says, "For every problem, there's a solution, the Gartner tag line reminds us. And for every problem, there's a Magic Quadrant, too. Gartner calls this real-time alerting segment BAM, as in Business Activity Monitoring."
	4/1/02	Business Activity Monitoring: Calm Before the Storm	Business activity monitoring, the next logical step for application integration vendors and enterprises, will grow rapidly this year. BAM is not just an application integration story -- the cross-vendor activity will be loud and furious.
	2/17/02	Information Systems Key to Early Warnings, Timely Decisions.	Businesses and government can benefit from business activity monitoring. (PDF)
	1/17/02	Moving into real time	THE NOTION OF a real-time enterprise is no longer hype for Jon Ricker, president and CIO of The Limited's technology services group.
	7/11/01	Business Activity Monitoring: The Promise and Reality	Business activity monitoring stands to penetrate the market psyche to the same extent as customer relationship management, wireless and other world-moving concepts.