Business performance management : meets business intelligence / Chuck Ballard et al.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ballard, Chuck.

Contributor:

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

White, Colin.

McDonald, Steve.

Mylymaki, Jussi.

McDowell, Scott.

Goerlich, Otto.

Neroda, Annie.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management information systems.

Information technology--Management.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

San Jose, CA : IBM, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Become a published author

Comments welcome

Introduction

Business innovation and optimization

Business performance management

Optimizing business performance

Contents abstract

Chapter 1. Understanding Business Performance Management

1.1 The BPM imperative

1.2 Getting to the details

1.2.1 What is BPM again?

1.2.2 Trends driving BPM

1.2.3 Developing a BPM solution

1.3 Summary: The BPM advantage

Chapter 2. The role of business intelligence in BPM

2.1 The relationship between BI and BPM

2.1.1 Decision making areas addressed by BPM

2.1.2 BPM impact on the business

2.2 Actionable business intelligence

2.2.1 Key Performance Indicators

2.2.2 Alerts

2.2.3 Putting information in a business context

2.2.4 Analytic applications

2.3 Data warehousing: An evolution

2.3.1 The need for real-time information

2.3.2 Data warehousing infrastructure

2.3.3 Data federation

2.4 Business intelligence: The evolution

2.4.1 Integrating BPM and BI

Chapter 3. IBM BPM enablers

3.1 IBM BPM Platform

3.1.1 User Access to Information

3.1.2 Analysis and Monitoring

3.1.3 Business Processes

3.1.4 Making Decisions

3.1.5 Event Infrastructure

3.1.6 Enabling IT to help the business

3.1.7 Bringing it all together

3.2 Web services

3.2.1 The promise of Web services

3.2.2 Web services architecture

3.2.3 IBM Web services

3.2.4 Using DB2 as a Web services provider and consumer

3.2.5 WebSphere Information Integrator and Web services

Chapter 4. WebSphere: Enabling the solution integration

4.1 IBM Business Integration Reference Architecture

4.1.1 BIRA components

4.2 IBM WebSphere business integration

4.2.1 WebSphere Business Integration Modeler.

4.2.2 WebSphere Business Integration Monitor

4.2.3 WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation

4.2.4 WebSphere Business Integration Server

4.2.5 IBM WebSphere MQ

4.2.6 WebSphere Business Integration Connect

Chapter 5. DB2: Providing the infrastructure

5.1 Data warehousing: The base

5.1.1 Scalability for growth

5.1.2 Partitioning and parallelism for performance

5.1.3 High availability

5.2 Information integration

5.2.1 Data federation

5.2.2 Access transparency

5.3 DB2 and business intelligence

5.3.1 Continuous update of the data warehouse

5.3.2 Concurrent update and user access

5.3.3 Configuration recommendations

Chapter 6. BPM and BI solution demonstration

6.1 Business scenario

6.1.1 Extending the scenario

6.1.2 Scenario product architecture

6.1.3 Hardware and software configuration

6.2 Implementing the BPM scenario

6.2.1 The business processes

6.3 Adding BI to the demonstration

6.3.1 Federation through WebSphere Information Integrator

6.3.2 Federation through DB2 XML Extender

6.4 Adding DB2 Alphablox to the demonstration

6.4.1 Configuring the components

6.5 Adding WebSphere Portal to the demonstration

6.5.1 Configuring the components

6.6 Completing the scenario

6.7 Additional dashboard examples

Appendix A. Getting started with BPM

Getting started with BPM

Selecting measures and KPIs

Abbreviations and acronyms

Glossary

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"July 2005."

OCLC:

228139089