Filtering Data by Business Area and Business Area Cycle

Business Areas (BAs) are organizational categories that reflect the structure of your business. Jobstreams are assigned to BAs. BAs are assigned to users. This means that in addition to organizing processes logically as needed in your business, BAs give you easy access to the data you need for your daily work. BAs also facilitate many other essential functions related to jobstreams, such as filtering, managing alerts, defining processing cycles and many more.

BA cycles are the time frames in which you can expect the batch processes in the BA to run. For example, let's suppose that the batch processes for the Human Resources department kick off every day at 7 pm and that they must be finished by 7 am the next day. The batch processes for the Finance department kick off every day at 7:30 am and must be finished at 12:30 the same day. In this case, the Human Resources BA cycle would be 12 hours starting at 7 pm every night and ending at 7 am each morning. The Finance cycle would start at 7:30 every day and end 5 hours later the same day.

AAI lets you filter data by BA and by BA cycle (previous, current or next). Filtering by BA cycle is an alternative and useful way to monitor the jobstream performance as it relates to how you expect its processing to behave. If the Business Day feature doesn’t apply to a given view, then the user can simply specify that Automic Automation Intelligence looks back, or looks forward for a given number of hours.

Example

The Monitoring view can report on thousands of processes. To be able to focus on the areas that you are responsible for, you can filter the data by BAs. Then you can drill down into the individual jobstreams.

In the Monitoring view, click the empty tab to add a new one with the filter that you need. The New Jobstream Run Filter dialog is displayed.
Enter a short descriptive Name for the filter.
On the Business Area tab, select the area for which you want to display data.
Click Close. The new tab is added and it contains the jobstreams that are assigned to the business area.
Open the new tab and click the edit button. The Edit Jobstream Run Filter dialog is displayed.
Go to the Options tab and click Business Area Cycle Filtering to activate this option.
Select Current, Previous or Next from the dropdown list to display the jobstreams runs of the selected busines area cycle.