Business Activity Monitoring Applications are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated. Much can be learned about the analysis and visualization of real-time data from comparisons with previous generations of process monitoring and telemetry systems.

While there are similarities, there are also significant differences in the technology involved in the handling of real-time data. This paper discusses practical issues regarding the analysis and visualization of real-time data in BAM applications. Further, it will discuss how lessons learned from the process control industry’s decades of experience in providing real-time visibility can be applied today to deliver more effective and successful BAM solutions for the enterprise.

INTRODUCTION
Analysis and visualization of real-time data is nothing new. It is at the very core of manufacturing automation and process control systems, network management applications, and telemetry systems that have been in-use for many years.

More recently, we have seen increasing interest in the monitoring and automated control of high-level business applications. The integration of disparate applications for such functions as supply chain management, customer relations management, or business intelligence has created a new and unique set of problems.