More and more organizations are demanding real-time visibility into critical business operations. Daily, weekly or monthly reports are no longer sufficient to provide timely understanding of what is happening. Some call it "the single version of truth", but for many organizations that truth is continuously changing. Whether it is a manufacturer's just-in-time processes, or a retailer's on-demand supply chain, or an investment firm's pre-trade risk calculation or a homeland security agency's border watch - organizations need a continuously updated, accurate and actionable view of what is happening.
Progress® Apama® Dashboard Studio, a richly-featured BAM dashboard design and execution environment, is the centerpiece to the Apama BAM offering. With its up-to-the-second visualization of key metrics that drive event-driven operations, Dashboard Studio gives decision-makers the ability to see operational activity in real time, generating alerts when conditions that warrant action are detected.

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Though dashboards are the iconic BAM representation, dashboards by themselves are not enough. The real power of BAM is the capacity to act in response to what is detected. Organizations are now recognizing the role that Complex Event Processing (CEP) can play as a critical component to successful BAM deployments. With CEP, BAM applications can deliver real-time insight and actionable response. That combination of insight and action is the key - and unique - capability that powers the Progress Apama BAM platform, what we term the "Brains behind BAM".
As the market's leading platform for building complex event processing solutions, Apama offers a rich and comprehensive foundation (the "brains") to build intelligent BAM applications. The key elements of the Apama BAM architecture extend far beyond dashboards to include: