Foreword

As businesses are increasing their use of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to build their core business systems, the need for real-time visibility into their business processes is becoming critical. At the same time, IT budgets are shrinking, and businesses are under constant pressure to cut costs and optimize their investments. Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM) provides a comprehensive solution for building real-time dashboards and alerts for monitoring Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and other Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Like Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite, Oracle BAM 11g leverages the best-of-breed WebLogic Server platform to achieve a high quality of service. As a completely new release, Oracle BAM 11g offers many new features and enhancements in the areas of usability, performance, scalability, and interoperability.

The book is a comprehensive handbook that focuses on providing guidance and best practices for building BAM applications including designing, developing, and troubleshooting. The key topics covered in the book are:

This book provides an in-depth coverage of Oracle BAM 11g, as well as troubleshooting methodologies that can be used for advanced problem resolution. The BAM samples for this book help solidify the readers' understanding of the concepts through hands-on experience.

All the instructions, guidelines, tips, best practices, and cases studies are based on real-world problems and solutions. By following these best practices, SOA developers can significantly increase their productivity, avoid common pitfalls, and create more agile, scalable, and reusable BAM applications.

As the global technical lead for BAM and a member of the A-Team, Pete's real-world experience with SOA and BAM-based solutions helps keep the book grounded in practical solutions to real-world challenges that companies face.

Focusing on accurate, pragmatic instructions, and best practices, this book should be a perfect guide for SOA architects and developers, in developing and administrating BAM applications.

Robert Patrick

Vice President, Oracle Fusion Middleware Architects Team: The A-Team