Patent ID: 8191081

Claim:
A system for monitoring activity of a distributed business application, the system comprising: a condition editor implemented by one or more processors and provided by an integration builder tool of a message exchange infrastructure connecting an event resolution portal server and the distributed business application, the condition editor generating one or more parameters to define one or more conditions for one or more business objects of the distributed business application; a filter framework implemented by one or more processors to detect a state change event from the one or more business objects, compare the state change with the one or more conditions to determine a relevance of the state change event, and report relevant state change events to the event resolution portal server; and an alert server implemented by one or more processors and in communication with the filter framework and the event resolution portal server, the alert server adapted to receive a message from the filter framework representing a relevant state change event, the alert server adapted to generate an alert to a user linked with an alert category characterized by the alert.