9. The method of claim 7 , wherein alerts include alerts according to alert rules that specify that particular participants are to be alerted when data in a business activity monitoring system falls outside of a preferred pattern and the alerts contain indications of how the data falls outside of a preferred pattern to provide the particular participants with information about why the alert was generated and the event that needs resolution.
7. The method of claim 5 , wherein events include events representing criteria met, transactions being created, conditions of business data being satisfied and events representing the lack of occurrence of an expected event.