The following topics introduce the new and changed features of Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM) and other significant changes that are described in this guide, and provide pointers to additional information.
This document is the new edition of the formerly titled User's Guide for Oracle Business Activity Monitoring. Information relevant to Oracle BAM that was in the Developing SOA Applications with Oracle SOA Suite and Administering Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite has been moved into this document.
Oracle Business Activity Monitoring 12c (12.1.3) includes the following new and changed features for this document.
Release 12c is a complete restructuring of Oracle BAM. The changes fall into four categories, or themes:
Active Viewer has become the Home page, Active Studio has become the Designer page, and Architect and Administrator have been combined in the Administrator page. See BAM Main Pages and User Task Summaries.
Date and time handling have been simplified. See Setting Language_ Time Zone_ and Accessibility Preferences.
The look and feel of the BAM Viewer (Home page) has changed. See Using Oracle Business Activity Monitoring as a Viewer.
Folders have become projects, in which all design entities are created. See Planning and Creating Projects.
Query creation has become a designer task, not an architect task. See Creating Business Queries.
Key performance indicators (KPIs) are independent data-analysis entities. See Creating KPIs.
Business Views
Chart views have more variations. See Creating Chart Business Views.
List and Crosstab views have become Table views. See Creating Table Business Views.
KPI views have become Gauge views. See Creating Gauge Business Views.
KPI Watchlist, Scatter, Bubble, and Treemap views are supported. See Creating KPI Watchlist Business Views, Creating Scatter and Bubble Business Views, and Creating Treemap Business Views.
Geo Map views are supported as a preview feature. See Creating Geo Map Business Views.
Dashboard views have become dashboards. See Creating Dashboards.
Tab Group views have become tabbed dashboards. See Creating a Tabbed Dashboard.
External Content views have become a feature of dashboards. See Adding Other Content to Cells.
Surface prompts have become a feature of dashboards. See Using Prompts in Dashboards.
Container, Row Group, and Column Group views are no longer necessary for formatting dashboards. See Formatting Dashboard Cells.
Excel views are no longer supported, but you can export data to CSV format. See Exporting Data from a Data Object.
Reports have become dashboards. See Creating Dashboards.
Columnar reports are no longer supported, replaced by tabbed dashboards. See Creating a Tabbed Dashboard.
Alerts have been simplified. They no longer have templates, and you can no longer launch an alert if an action fails or escalate to another user. See Creating Alerts.
Email alerts use the Oracle User Messaging Service. See Sending Alerts to External Email Accounts.
Parameters are created independently, referenced in queries, and viewed in dashboards. See Creating Parameters.
Action buttons have become Actions, a feature of views. See Using Actions in Business Views.
Integration with BPM processes is supported. See Integrating with Oracle Business Process Management.
Integration with SOA composite applications has been simplified. See Integrating with Oracle SOA Suite.
Data Objects
Two chapters describe data objects, one for designers and another for architects and administrators. See Working with Data Objects and Creating and Managing Oracle BAM Data Objects.
Four data object types are supported: simple, derived, logical, and external. See Data Object Types.
Auto-incrementing integer data fields are not supported. See Column Data Types.
Boolean data fields are implemented as integers. See Column Data Types.
Datetime and Timestamp data fields have been combined. See Column Data Types.
Row security is supported. See Setting Row Security for a Data Object.
Calculated fields support additional functions, including Ago, DateDiff, FirstInGroup, LastInGroup, Log10, Median, Noop, Rank, StdDev, StdDevsFromMean, Variance, and VariancesFromMean. See Operators and Functions for Calculated Fields.
Importing data object metadata and data from Oracle BAM 11g is supported. See Import.
An Enterprise Message Source can have a self-describing payload. See Creating an Enterprise Message Source: Steps.
Monitoring, and server configuration have been simplified. See Monitoring and Managing Oracle BAM.
Diagnostics have been enhanced. See Using the BAM Diagnostic Framework.
Security can be applied to an entire project or to individual queries, business views, and other parts of the project. See Securing Oracle BAM.
ICommand has become BamCommand, and the syntax has changed. See Using BAMCommand.
Using loadgen with Oracle BAM is supported. See Using the Loadgen Utility.
The DataObjectOperations10131 and DataObjectDefinition web services are no longer supported, and there are two new web services, DOOperations and DODefinition. See Using Oracle BAM Web Services.
Data control is no longer necessary or supported.