Oracle Business Activity Monitoring: Build Real-Time Dashboards

Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) 10g (10.1.3.1.0) is a complete solution for building real-time operational dashboards, monitoring and alerting applications over the web. In this course participants perform the administration tasks required for configuring and administering the BAM infrastructure. They learn to create, save, edit, view, and share reports and dashboards. They also learn to navigate reports using Drilling and Driving concepts. They build interactive and selective data reports using concepts such as filters, prompts, and parameters. In addition, participants also learn to use alerts with reports, and the various features included in BAM to design effective dashboards.

Learn To:

• Describe how Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides a business solution for monitoring enterprise business services in real-time
• Describe and perform the administration tasks required for configuring and administering the BAM infrastructure
• Describe and build plans and transformations in BAM
• Understand and define Data Objects within the Active Data Cache
• Define Enterprise Message Sources and understand how they are used in BAM
• Use filters for selective data reporting

Audience

• Application Developers
• Business Analysts
• Business Intelligence Developer
• Developer
• Reports Developer
• SOA Architect

Course Topics Overview of Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

• Listing the features of Oracle BAM
• Describing the classroom use case to be used in the practices

Oracle BAM Architecture

• Describing the Oracle BAM Architecture components and their relationships
• Identifying the features of the Administrator, Architect, Active Studio, and Active Viewer applications
• Describing the iCommand utility

Oracle BAM Administration

• Describing the functions of Oracle BAM Administrator
• Using Administrator to create users and roles
• Managing the Message Center configuration
• Managing Enterprise Message Source types

Defining Enterprise Message Sources

• Describing Enterprise Message Sources
• Identifying the types of Enterprise Message Sources and explaining how to configure them
• Defining and viewing external data sources

Defining Data Objects

• Creating, editing, and deleting Active Data Cache (ADC) data objects
• Describing dimensions and hierarchies
• Describing security data filters
• Describing the purpose and functionality of calculated fields, lookup fields, and external data objects

Building Plans and Transforms

• Describing and building Plans in Oracle BAM
• Working with data flows
• Describing and identifying the types of Transforms in Oracle BAM
• Including Transforms in a Plan

Simple Reporting

• Describing the concepts, benefits, and process of creating reports
• Creating, viewing, sharing, saving, and editing reports
• Personalizing Active Studio

Using Views

• Describing the different view types available in Oracle BAM
• Describing the functionality and properties of the view types
• Using the views to create Oracle BAM reports

Using Filters, Parameters, and Prompts

• Creating and managing filters for selective data reporting
• Describing user-selectable filters and predefined filters
• Describing the types of filters available
• Using filters to report based on time periods
• Defining prompts and parameters in reports

Drilling and Driving

• Creating advanced reports by using drilling
• Describing the various drilling options
• Configuring driving in Oracle BAM reports

Creating Actionable Reports

• Describing the action types available in Oracle BAM
• Creating Actionable reports by defining Action Buttons

Creating Alerts

• Describing Alerts
• Using rules to create alerts
• Defining actions for alerts
• Monitoring KPIs and SLAs by using alerts
• Using alerts to schedule reports
• Calling external Web services from alerts

Designing Effective Dashboards

• Describing report beautification
• Identifying best practices for designing reports
• Adjusting view properties to customize reports

Dashboard Workshop

• Creating a Vendor Dashboard and a Financial Dashboard

Course Objectives

• Use the various features included in Oracle BAM to design effective dashboards
• Describe how Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides a business solution for monitoring enterprise business services in real-time
• Understand the BAM Architecture
• Describe and perform the administration tasks required for configuring and administering the BAM infrastructure
• Define Enterprise Message Sources and understand how they are used in BAM
• Understand and define Data Objects within the Active Data Cache
• Describe and build plans and transformations in BAM
• Create, save, edit, view, and share reports and dashboards
• Describe and use the various view types within BAM
• Use filters for selective data reporting
• Include prompts and parameters for interactive reporting
• Learn to navigate reports using Drilling and Driving concepts
• Include interactive buttons to create actionable reports
• Describe and use alerts with reports