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Abstract
In this IBM Redbook, we discuss business performance management (BPM) and its integration with business intelligence. BPM is all about taking a holistic approach for managing business performance and achieving the business goals. Businesses align strategic and operational objectives, and business activities, to fully manage performance through more informed and proactive decision making. This holistic approach enables the integration and use of business intelligence, process management, business service management, activity monitoring, and corporate performance management to achieve a single view of their enterprise. Businesses are evolving to an environment capable of supporting continuous data flow, which enables the support of business intelligence environments with more current data.
This is referred to as real-time business intelligence, and represents a significant competitive advantage. In this redbook, we demonstrate how BPM can be enabled, using DB2 for data warehousing and WebSphere Business Integration for monitoring and managing the business processes. The result is proactive business performance management and problem avoidance, in addition to the more typical reactive problem impact minimization. We also discuss techniques, architectures, and approaches for implementing BPM as a proactive means of managing the attainment of business measurements and business goals.
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Understanding Business Performance Management
Chapter 2. The role of business intelligence in BPM
Chapter 3. IBM BPM enablers
Chapter 4. WebSphere: Enabling the solution integration
Chapter 5. DB2: Providing the infrastructure
Chapter 6. BPM and BI solution demonstration
Appendix A. Getting started with BPM