Interesting Links for September 30th

Links that I have found interesting for September 30th:

• Is Business Activity Monitoring a BI Application? – A question I posed to a LinkedIn group — Is Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) a BI Application? — sparked interesting discussion. I noted and asked, "BAM involves dashboards and analyses for business processes, and BI isn't typically very processy. If not BI, who 'owns' BAM?" There have been 9 responses to date, including two from Howard Dresner, who has done as much as anyone to shape current-day BI. The responses speak to growing interest in operational BI, and they hint at the impact that complex event processing (CEP) will have on enterprise analytics.
• OpTier upgrades transaction monitoring software – CoreFirst 3.0, software that manages application performance by monitoring transactions, is now able to track transactions as they occur to prevent any failures from impacting the overall application and business service. Dubbed "in-flight transaction monitoring," this capability enables IT managers to take corrective measures before a faulty transaction terminates and causes an application to miss performance thresholds (associated with service-level agreements).
• z/OS basic skills information center – Good z/OS info here