A Gartner term that defines the concept of providing real-time access to critical business performance indicators to improve the speed and effectiveness of business operations. At its broadest level, BAM is the convergence of operational business intelligence and real-time application integration. Compared with traditional business event monitoring and reporting, BAM requires a higher degree of organizational and architectural planning and investment due to: Its focus on real-time data, as well as real-time access to data. The use of information from multiple application systems, and other internal and external sources (unlike traditional monitoring, which uses a single source). The delivery of information through alerts and graphical displays (dashboards), which are customized and optimized for different users across the enterprise. See application integration, business intelligence and ZLE.

Business activity management.

Business Account Manager is the person responsible for managing client relationships

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM): monitoring of all of an enterprise's business processes and IT activities through the use of specialized software components. BAM solutions can be used to alert individuals to changes in the business that may require action.

Business Activity Monitoring. BAM is the ability to automatically monitor events associated with specific activities in an executing business process. BAM is a business solution supported by an advanced technical infrastructure that enables rapid insight into new business strategies, the reduction of operating cost by real-time identification of issues and improved process performance.

Business Activity Monitoring. Business Activity Monitoring refers to the concept of real-time access to critical business performance indicators in order to improve the effectiveness of your business operations.

Business Activity Monitoring - Gartner Inc. term

Business Activity Monitoring. A BizTalk Server feature that gives business users a real-time view of their heterogeneous business processes, enabling them to make important business decisions.