Business Activity Monitoring

The goal of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is to provide management with immediate awareness of changing business events across the enterprise, so that appropriate and timely decisions can be made. Real-time, event-driven business events across the enterprise, so that appropriate and timely decisions can be made. Real-time, event-driven business activity monitoring solutions provide real-time alerts via graphical dashboards and other notification mechanisms, enabling management to immediately react and intervene when key performance indicators change. BAM solutions also complement BPM solutions by providing real-time process monitoring capabilities that enable BPM systems to dynamically and immediately react to alterations in the business environment.
By using real-time information to remove delays in managing and executing enterprises critical business processes, BAM reduces costs and enables faster execution of business processes.

Nanocomputing

Nanotechnology deals with the techniques of operating and building at the nanometer scale. One nanometer is equal to one millionth of a millimeter. And nanocomputing pertains to computations and computing machinery at the nano-scale level.

In 1959, Richard Feynman first conceived the idea of arranging things molecule-by-molecule and subsequently atom-by-atom, some day.

Phenylene group comprising C6H4 structures have been shown to produce larger conductive molecules, which integrate molecular wires and molecular switches. Recent research by MITRE Corporation, which is one of the United States Department of Defense's organization, came up with a molecular a electronic AND gate, incorporating polyphenylene-based Molecular Rectifying Diodes embedded in tour wires.

Once we have a basic AND gate, OR and NOT gates could be created using similar structures. Digital electronics and computing design principles can help build more complex logic structures utilizing these three basic computing building blocks. Among the things that could be created using these are the CPU, memory (ROM and RAM) and any other device like hard disk, etc. A computer built using nano elements as the building blocks is called a nanocomputer.

Quantum Computers : Generation next

Todays computers process and execute all data with use of only two states 1 or 0. But a system working on principals of Quantum Physics has three quantum states either 1 or 0, or a superposition of 0 and 1. They encode information as quantum bits or qubits. Since quantum processes are governed by Heisenberg's Uncertainity Principle, a qubit can be present at many positions at any given time. This superpositioning ability of qubits will give quantum computers a property of parallelism. As a result, a quantum computer can work on millions of computations at once unlike the desktop PC that works on one.