Authors:
Azza Abouzied
;
Jacob Slonim
and
Michael McAllister
Affiliation:
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada
Keyword(s):
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Business Intelligence (BI), Data Stream Management System (DSMS), Architecture.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Business Analytics
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Data Engineering
;
Data Warehouses and Data Mining
;
e-Business
;
Embedded Communications Systems
;
Engineering Information System
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Management Information Systems
;
Software Architectures
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
Business Intelligence (BI) provides enterprise decision makers with reliable and holistic business information. Data Warehousing systems typically provide accurate and summarized reports of the enterprise’s operation. While this information is valuable to decision makers, it remains an after-the-fact analysis. Just-in-time, finer-grained information is necessary to enable decision makers to detect opportunities or problems as they occur. Business Activity Monitoring is the technology that provides right-time analysis of business data. The purpose of this paper is to describe the requirements of a BAM system, establish the relation of BAM to a Data Stream Management System (DSMS) and describe the architecture and design challenges we faced building the Itaipu system: a DSMS developed for BAM end-users.