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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810926703321
• Autore: Ballard Chuck
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Jose, CA, : IBM, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Collana: IBM redbooks
• Altri autori (Persone): WhiteColin; McDonaldSteve; MylymakiJussi; McDowellScott; GoerlichOtto; NerodaAnnie
• Disciplina: 658.4/72
• Soggetti: Management information systems; Information technology - Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "July 2005."
• Nota di contenuto: 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.