Getting started with Business Activity Monitoring

Next to some other projects I'm currently working on a Business Activity Monitor. One can say, that this is a dashboard for business processes. The creation of such a thing can be quite hard in case you need to fill in the data manually. On the other hand, if you have something like an ESB or run everything over JMS or execute your busines processes on a BPEL engine exposing events, you shouldn't have any problem to set up such a thing.

All these things can (or at least should be able to) provide data via events. An ESB will be configured to send certain messages to a BAM logging service or register the BAM for JMS messages. Another nice option would be registering an BpelEventListener at ODEs BPEL engine.

What is missing now is the BAM. WSO2 started a nice implementation. What is missing there I guess (just read through the concept so far) is the option to assign costs to tasks and therefore calculate process costs. Future releases (or event the current?) will need to provide such things.