Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention manage business issues by modeling the business issues and domain semantics in real time. After the business issues are modeled, the functional and the underlying technical and infrastructure components that are responsible for fulfilling the business process execution are located and identified automatically. Specific behaviors of those components are observed to determine what transpires within those components so that the information can be related back to the business issues. Accordingly, business issues may be analyzed in real-time with current data that is automatically extracted from the underlying hardware and software systems.

Abstract: A bus interface device for interfacing a secondary peripheral bus with a system having a host CPU and a primary peripheral bus. The bus interface enables "virtual integration" of multiple physically distinct peripheral devices so that the collection of devices can function as a single integrated unit. The "virtually integrated" devices can share resources such as a dedicated bus, memory space, and memory bandwidth just as if the devices were physically integrated. An intelligent device configuration process and a dynamic internal memory map allow each peripheral device to be independently added to the system, removed from the system, or upgraded just as if each device was a completely separate peripheral. In this way, flexibility and modularity are maintained while achieving the advantages and memory cost reductions associated with physically integrated devices.