Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk 2009

In Chapter 3, you learned how to capture data from a WCF service. In Chapter 6, you learned how to capture data from a BizTalk application. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use captured data. In most cases, the data will be displayed to a user, often a business manager who is interested the performance of a business process. BAM provides two out-of-the-box ways to display the data to a user: a web application called the BAM Portal and Excel pivot tables. Because these tools are provided with BizTalk Server and no development work is needed to use them, we have found that most of our clients prefer to use one of these two techniques to minimize ...