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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By : Pete Wang
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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By: Pete Wang

Overview of this book

An integral component of Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) ultimately empowers business executives to react quickly to changing business situations. BAM enables business service and process monitoring through real-time data streaming and operational reports, and this book helps you to take advantage of this vital tool with best practice guidance for building a BAM project."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is an essential companion for advancing your BAM knowledge, with troubleshooting and performance tuning tips to guide you in building BAM applications. The book uses step-by-step instructions alongside a real world demo project to steer you through the pitfalls of report and application development. Packed with best practices, you'll learn about BAM migration, HA configuration and much more."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" comprises a myriad of best practices for building real-time operational dashboards, reports and alerts. The book dives straight into the architecture of Oracle BAM 11g, before moving swiftly onto concepts like managing BAM server securities, populating Data Objects and performing load testing. Later on you'll also learn about BAM migration and building an ADF-based report, plus much more that you won't want to miss. For focusing in on best practices for this integral tool within Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, "Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is the perfect guide for the job.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Building your first report


A BAM report contains one or more graphical Views (for example, lists, charts, and key process indicators), rendered in a web browser for displaying high volumes of business data in real time. BAM reports are designed and implemented in the BAM Active Studio web application that provides a variety of template layouts and multiple Views. In this section, you will learn how to build a simple report using the 3D bar chart View in the BAM Active Studio. Creating reports normally includes the following steps:

  1. 1. Choosing the Data Object.

  2. 2. Choosing data fields.

  3. 3. Editing advanced data manipulation properties, such as filtering.

  4. 4. Editing View properties.

Creating your first report using the 3D bar chart View

This section explains how to create a simple report using the 3D bar chart template and the /BookstoreDemo/Order Data Object. The layout of the Data Object is described in the previous section.

To create a new report using the 3D bar chart View, perform the following...