In e-business environments, automatic interpretation and routing of online information about the status of business process execution will become routine. Messages automatically created inside an organization will seamlessly integrate with those from business partners.

Process management allows to monitor the business process in order to correlate business service events to fundamental business metrics. It allows for the monitoring and, subsequently, the optimization of these business processes. By monitoring detailed business process statistics, business analysts can analyze the performance of business processes and derive approaches for optimization, if necessary.

Tools reporting status information are required for identifying process integrity and latency issues. Audit logs can also be used for searching and reporting purposes.