Patent ID: 8352959
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for non-intrusively monitoring business events comprising non-transitory storage media storing a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: determine an enterprise information system of a plurality of enterprise systems on which to place business process probes; monitor business event traffic on the determined enterprise information system based on at least two business process probes, wherein each business process probe indicating a business event to monitor, at least one business object attribute, and a location on the determined enterprise information system at which to monitor business event traffic, the business process defining inputs for the business event and coordinating a sequence of processing the business event, wherein at least two locations are utilized simultaneously and wherein the business event is used across multiple applications and triggers actions between the multiple applications, the business event comprising a business event identifier; detect the business event in the business event traffic that corresponds to the business event identifier for the at least two business process probes; and capture data values for the at least one business object attribute of the business process probe in a data store, the data values associated with the at least one business object attribute in a data store without altering the flow of the business process associated with the business event.