Can I BAM with NW BPM?

Question

Hi community.
I was trying to answer the question: how does the NW BPM platform feature BAM (business active monitoring) and could not find any direct answer. I have read on PI capabilities of creating monitoring process that are fed by event messages and that can create alerts. I have read that the user can see alerts in portal, as well as some dashboards created based on these alerts. Finally I found out the business suite has some out-of-the-box alerts that can be activated so they can interact with PI and them generate alerts, and that BI solution can also generate events.
Am I right or I missed something?
That sounds like an infrastructure for BAM, but I would like to know how to create events, alerts and measures in the process I design in NWDS Process Designer with BPMN, so I can consume them while this process is running in the Process Server. Is there a way to have BAM with no PI?
Thanks in advance.
Edited by: Marcelo Costa on Jun 30, 2009 11:35 PM

Answer 1

Its simple. BPM is called via a WS. So its not an issue to call a WS and start the BPM process from ECC.
In the BPM process design, add a Human Activity which has the UI for the Approval Task. In the properties of this Human Activity, click on the 'Task' property, create a 'New' task from the dropdown and name the task. Click on Finish:
Once the task is created, save the project. Then, you will see a link 'Task' in the Task-property.Click on it :
Once the properties of the Task are open, check the following checkbox:
Checking this task will ensure that the potential owner(s) of the task will receive an email notification that a task has been created in their universal worklists. This email contains 2 links; one which redirects the owner to the universal worklist, and one which redirects them directly to the created task.
In the completion event of the Task-UI, you can call a WS to return to ECC. Or may be, after completion of the task, you can create an Automated Activity in the BPM Process Design which can call an RFC or a WS. So, your BPM design should probably look something like this:
Hope this helps in some way.
All the best.