webMethods Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) Components
Optimize supports various levels of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) depending on customer needs. Business activity monitoring enables you to analyze real time business metrics information, including system performance, process metrics, business activity volume and responsiveness, and other key performance indicators (KPIs). Aggregate analytics working in parallel with instance-level data provide information that you can use to eliminate problems, increase efficiency, and take advantage of business opportunities.
Optimize uses data collectors to gather data from business sources and other webMethods components, and this data supports business activity monitoring. Note that Optimize runs within the My webMethods user interface and makes use of much of the standard functionality that is available through this interface.
Two different implementations of Optimize are available to customers: Optimize for Infrastructure and Optimize for Process.
Optimize for Infrastructure enables you to monitor system resources in real time. Resource data consists of data about equipment and applications, such as queue length and whether a managed
webMethods component is online or offline. You can monitor individual objects and the overall status of your system.
Optimize for Infrastructure contains two components:
Infrastructure Data Collector and
Optimize.
Optimize for Infrastructure uses the
Infrastructure Data Collector to collect system data.
Optimize for Process enables you to monitor business processes, activities, and events as well as other business related information. You can track KPIs that relate to operational factors such as margin, revenue, customer satisfaction, and inventory levels. With
Optimize you can compare actual performance with rules you establish. If a monitored item goes out of compliance with a rule,
Optimize alerts you so that you can address the problem. In addition, you can use Six Sigma to analyze the business processes. Six Sigma is a disciplined methodology for improving business process performance by eliminating defects. Using this methodology, you can measure the number of defects in a process and systematically determine how to eliminate them.
Optimize for Process also includes business visualization tools that provide at-a-glance mashups of
Optimize monitoring information.