Letter From the Editor Joanne Correia 1 April 2002 What is BAM? Is it a separate market or not? What skills are required to build and implement BAM solutions? What market segments will lead the BAM charge? What kinds of BAM solutions are customers building in which verticals? Who are the software companies that are providing BAM technology? At its broadest level, BAM is the convergence of operational BI and near real-time application integration aimed at business goals but enabled through advances in IT. To improve your understanding of BAM and its potential impact on your company, the following articles discuss market, technology and business/user issues:    Read more

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	BAM: A Composite Market Changing the Way Enterprises Work 1 April 2002 Joanne Correia Business activity monitoring (BAM) is not a software or services market, but an increasingly important concept and emerging set of technologies that are required to compete in today's world.

BAM: A Composite Market View 1 April 2002 Joanne Correia   Norma Schroder BAM is not a market on its own. For vendors, the challenge is in supplying business solutions, not technology.		Top 10 Skills and Processes Needed for BAM 20 March 2002 Michele Cantara   Alex Soejarto Successful business activity monitoring (BAM) requires more focus on business considerations and user interface design than technology issues.
Service Providers in Best Position to Deliver BAM's Promise 20 March 2002 Alex Soejarto   Michele Cantara Demand for solutions incorporating business activity monitoring will lead to new points of competition for professional service providers, but they're well placed to face it.		Which Market Will Own Business Activity Monitoring? 18 March 2002 Howard Dresner Business activity monitoring (BAM), at this writing, cannot be purchased as a product from a single vendor. However, this is unlikely to persist. Some market inevitably will claim BAM as its own. We evaluate four contenders for this space.