Blog: John Myers: Where there's smoke... There's BAM

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Where there's smoke... There's BAM

As I spend more time spreading the word about business activity monitoring (BAM) in the public domain, I am exposed to more and more of the firms in and near the BAM space. It is similar to the old adage "where there's smoke..." If you talk about an area of business, people will bring their solutions to your attention.

Last week at the Las Vegas TDWI Conference, I was exposed the operational business intelligence solutions from Syndera. Their solutions for financial trading markets are interesting. They have many the aspects that I consider important for a BAM implementation (note syndera doesn't consider itself a bam solution):

Driven to the tactical user and not directed at the CxO suite

Real/right time functionality

Ability to relate current activities to past performance

In particular, I found the graphical interface (GUI) well laid out and presented. I was impressed with Syndera's ability to show process flow, metrics and details in one screen without too much information overload.

With Syndera and other smaller firms starting to make a bigger play into the operational business intelligence landscape that includes BAM and business process management (BPM), the market will become an interesting place in the near future. Will one to three major players dominate? Or will more agile firms be the leaders? Time will tell.

Technorati Tags: Syndera, Operational Business Intelligence, Business Activity Monitoring

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