Ryan CrawCour

Solution Architect and Integration Specialist

DEMYSTIFYING BIZTALK BUSINESS ACTIVITY

MONITORING

What?Why?Where?How?Demos, demos, demos

AGENDA

“Business Activity Monitoring provides real-time access to critical business performance

indicators to improve the speed and eff ectiveness of business operations” Gartner –

July 2001

WHAT IS BAM ?

Real-time & Historic Business Intelligence

Asynchronous Data CaptureHeterogeneous End to End VisibilityEvent-driven Alerting

WHY USE BAM ?

Ask yourself these 3 questions for every BAM project;

What data do you want to capture?Where does the data come from?How will the data be presented?

HOW DO I DO IT?

BAM Observation ModelBAM Activity

MilestonesData of interestsProgrammatic

BAM ViewDurationsMilestone groupAggregations (Dimensions and measures)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO CAPTURE ?

DeclarativeBizTalkWCFWF

ProgrammaticDirectEventStreamBufferedEventStreamOrchestrationEventStreamMessagingEventStream

WHERE DOES THE DATA COME FROM?

BAM PortalExcelSQL Reporting ServicesPerformancePointSharePoint ServerProgrammatically

HOW WILL THE DATA BE PRESENTED?

Business AnalystDeveloperSystem AdministratorsEnd Users

WHAT ROLES ARE INVOLVED?

HOW DOES IT ALL FIT TOGETHER?

SHOW ME SOME BAM ALREADY!

BAM AlertsContinuationsRelationships

IS THERE ANY MORE?

No BAM Add-In in ExcelCannot open database

“BAMStarSchema” requested by the login. The login failed

“Service Unavailable” browsing to the Portal

BAM Portal missing on 64Bit machines“No View to Display” in the BAM PortalNo data is being captured from WCF

Service

IT’S GONE TO CUSTARD! NOW WHAT?

MSDN - Business Activity Monitoring in Depth for Developers Implementing BAM Solutions

Books - Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk 2009

CodePlex – BizTalk BAM GUI BizTalk BAM IC GUI

Use Your Community !!!!!

I NEED SOME HELP PLEASE!

Real-time Business IntelligenceThink outside the boxNot limited to just BizTalkNot limited to just MicrosoftExtensible

“Real Architects BAM”

SUMMARY

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

WAM, BAM, THANK YOU MA’AM!