Business Activity Monitoring System Research Articles

BAMN: a modeling method for business activity monitoring systems

ABSTRACTBusiness Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a real-time process analytics concept, which provides low-latency insights into process performance. The development of BAM systems requires the specification of aggregated process metrics, instance measures to monitor process instances, and links to data producers as well as data consumers so that the origin of metrics can be traced as can its impact and potential reactions. Common process modeling methods, such as BPMN, do not cover monitoring aspects. This paper proposes a modeling method to specify BAM systems, the Business Activity Monitoring Notation (BAMN), as a vehicle for users to create shared representations of BAM requirements, BAM specifications, and BAM systems. The method covers insight-to-action feedback loops, which can enable BPM systems to react automatically on BAM observations or inferences rather than displaying information only. BAMN includes BPM-related constructs, a notation as well as a procedure model and guidance on serializing models into code.

A Service-oriented Dual-bus BAM System Model

Based on a thorough analysis and comparison of several business activity monitoring(BAM) system models, noting that a BAM system is open, integrative, and real-time, and using the SOA software engineering techniques, this paper presents a service-oriented dual-bus BAM system model and analyzes in detail the functions of its service components and communications among them. Much more open than prior models, this BAM system model has a two-level bus architecture, which enables flexible and extensible implementations of practical systems, as well as provides a foundation for software reuse.

Improving the understanding of BAM technology for real-time decision support

Business activity monitoring (BAM) provides real-time access to critical business performance indicators to improve the speed and effectiveness of business operations. Ideally, BAM systems should allow enterprises to improve their operational performance by helping them perceive, understand and respond to events that have a significant impact on their business processes. Despite the fact that most enterprises have pressing needs to improve their operational performance in highly competitive and dynamic business environments, BAM systems have been poorly utilised. This is mainly due to the fact that there are no formal standards which enumerate what specific features BAM systems must include or theoretical models which support comparative analyses between BAM systems. Indeed, selecting a suitable BAM system is a challenge. To improve the ability of enterprises to understand and select a BAM system for their particular decision support needs, a BAM definitional model as well as BAM classification criteria are proposed.

In-field logistics processes management based on business activities monitoring systems paradigm

The objective of this paper is to propose a generic architecture framework for an activities monitoring system capable of providing real-time access to critical data and performance indicators for agricultural field operations. It is based on an innovative enhancement of the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) systems used mainly in the industrial context. The proposed framework architecture has been tested with a specific and real-life harvesting example case. The premise is that agricultural field logistics operations are viewed as a challenging application and development target for emerging and innovative decision-support systems.

Business activity monitoring system design framework integrated with process-based performance measurement model

Recently, strong interests in the real-time performance management are increasing to gain competitive advantages in the rapidly changing business environment. For better business performance or con...