Dashboards are the client component of WebSphere® Business Monitor. They operate within the WebSphere Portal environment.
Business performance-management dashboards are used to view financial and operational data of a business. The dashboards operate in a real-time environment to monitor business situations so that users can manage appropriate actions.
Dashboards are implemented as portal pages in the WebSphere Portal. A dashboard displaying specific business performance consists of a variety of data snapshots, known as views. The views are implemented as portlets that are added to portal pages, which represent dashboards. Each dashboard consists of one or more views. WebSphere Business Monitor supports a number of views that can be used to assemble dashboards.
Dashboards interact with WebSphere Business Monitor Runtime and Repository databases to retrieve all the required information for the views. Examples of the information are key performance indicators (KPIs) details, business measures groups details, process and organizational information. Dashboards also receive alert notifications from the Adaptive Action Manager, which notifies users of a defined business situation. In addition, the Historical database is used to generate multidimensional analysis of data using the DB2® Alphablox technology so that it can be displayed in the dashboards.