The Dashboard Client component of WebSphere® Business Monitor Version 6.0.1 enables users
to monitor business performance through a set of views.
The Dashboard Client operates within the IBM® WebSphere Portal Version
5.1 environment. Each of the dashboard views is implemented as a portlet.
A dashboard is created by assembling portlets in a portal page. To construct
the WebSphere Business Monitor Dashboard Client,
you create a portal page and add a set of views portlets to it.
Users can display the monitoring data through a set of dashboard views
defined according to display properties and content. These views provide different
representations of both runtime and historical data. DB2® Alphablox is
used with the views for a more refined data analysis.
A dashboard view is a type of display supported by one or more dashboard
categories. The display is targeted to address specific functions or responsibilities
of a particular role. Each view type supports a number of display properties
to customize the display. The dashboard view types are:
- Active Instances:
Displays the instances of a specific process and the runtime values of selected
business measures.
- Reports: Displays
performance reports showing the values of metrics aggregated over a period
of time in tables and graphs.
- Scorecards:
Primarily supports executive users. A scorecard groups the KPIs of particular
interest to executives.
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Displays
the details of individual KPIs.
- Gauges: Visually
represents the values of KPIs relative to KPI limits or relative to the KPI
target, in the form of a gauge that looks like an automobile speedometer or
tachometer.
- Dimensions:
Displays a multidimensional view of business performance data. You can analyze any measure to view the performance
based on this dimension.
- Alerts: Displays
the alert notifications for a specific user.
- Process Diagrams:
Displays process status on a process graph with visual indicators showing
the status of the process. You can also display the status of a specific process
instance in the process graph by highlighting the activities that have been
performed in the instance.
- Organizations:
Retrieves organization and employee information from a user-registry such
as LDAP. You can select an organization or a set of employees to use to filter
the data of the Reports view.
- Export Values: Allows further analysis and manipulation of processes
information by exporting their average values for a selected business measures model.
Those values are then imported in WebSphere Business
Modeler for
continuous improvement of the business processes