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Get started with IBM Business Monitor

Business monitoring measures business performance, monitors real-time and completed processes, and reports on business operations. It provides information that helps you identify business problems, correct exceptions, and change processes to improve process efficiency and increase business competitiveness. IBM Business Monitor is a comprehensive business activity monitoring (BAM) software that provides an up-to-date view of your business performance and also provides predictions so that you can take action before problems occur. Personalized business dashboards process business events and data, and calculate key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics. IBM Business Monitor can collect events and data from a wide variety of sources.

• Release summary
  Become familiar with what’s new in IBM Business Monitor V8.0.1 and access valuable resources that help you get started with different areas of the product.
• Product overview
  IBM Business Monitor is a business activity monitoring environment that displays key performance indicators and metrics through dashboards. You can combine IBM Business Monitor with other Business Process Management (BPM) software to accelerate processes and facilitate business innovation. BPM governs an organization’s cross-functional, core business process to achieve business objectives by directing resources from across the organization into efficient processes that create customer value.
• Monitoring events from various sources
  IBM Business Monitor can monitor business events from any application. Business data from any application can be mediated into events that IBM Business Monitor can read, using products such as IBM BPM, previous versions of Process Server, IBM Adapters, WebSphere Business Events, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere ILOG JRules, IBM Operational Decision Management, or WebSphere Message Broker. IBM Business Monitor can also monitor events from products like CICS and IMS™. You can also use IBM Business Monitor event emitter services, REST event emitter API and JMS event emitter, to emit events from source applications.
• Event emitting methods
  IBM applications, such as IBM BPM, IBM Operational Decision Management, and IBM WebSphere Message Broker, can generate and emit events. However, not all applications have this capability. The IBM Business Monitor event emitter services provide alternative methods for an application to emit events.
• Samples and tutorials
  The Better Lender sample helps you get started with IBM Business Monitor. The sample provides a predefined dashboard that demonstrates the main features of the product. The dashboard is preloaded with metric values for thousands of monitoring context instances, so that key performance indicators (KPIs) can be calculated and displayed. You can view reports and drill down on the data.