You can monitor and record statistics about the execution of your processes. ALBPM provides two ways to do this: Business Activity Monitoring (usually referred to as BAM), and the Business Activity Data Mart (usually referred to simply as Data Mart).
BAM records information about process instance performance and process workload over a recent time period, usually 24 hours. BAM information is also updated frequently (the default update frequency is 30 minutes), so that BAM data can be used to present almost real-time business processes metrics. You can then use these to manage current trends or identify issues with your business processes.
BAM data is not retained; it is removed at the Data Expiration Time, which is measured in hours. The default expiration time is 24 hours.
The Data Mart stores data similar to BAM, but over longer periods of time. Data Mart data is updated daily and consolidated. You can choose between daily an hourly data resolution. You also can determine the time of day the daily update will be recorded, and independently determine the time of day the data will represent (called the snapshot time). For example, you can set the update to occur at midnight when server load is low, but have the snapshot set to 6:00 PM so that the consolidation reflects data up to the close of business (COB) time.