Enterprise management system for normalization, integration and correlation of business measurements with application and infrastructure measurements

A computer-implemented method for managing a Business Operation, comprising:

• collecting measurements from an Infrastructure Layer, wherein said Infrastructure Layer measurements are associated with said business operation;
• wherein said Infrastructure Layer includes one or more infrastructure objects upon which an Application Layer is implemented, said infrastructure objects including network, systems, storage, or middleware elements;
• concurrent with collecting measurements from said Infrastructure Layer, collecting measurements from said Application Layer, wherein Application Layer measurements are associated with said Business Operation;
• wherein said Application Layer includes one or more application objects upon which a Business Layer is implemented, said application objects including application services or application components;
• concurrent with collecting measurements from said Infrastructure Layer and said Application Layer, collecting measurements from said Business Layer, wherein said Business Layer measurements are associated with said Business Operation;
• wherein said Business Layer includes one or more business objects, said business objects including business services, business traffic, or business transactions;
• based on the measurements collected from each of the Infrastructure Layer, the Application Layer, and the Business Layer generating a first set of Events;
• wherein each Event in the first set of Events is a data structure indicating an observed state change or phenomenon occurrence at one of the Infrastructure Layer, the Application Layer, and the Business Layer;
• based on the first set of Events and a plurality of policies applied to Events in the first set of Events, generating a second set of Events;
• wherein the second set of Events includes:
• (a) a third set of Events that occurred at the Business Layer;
• (b) a fourth set of Events that occurred at the Application Layer;
• and
• (c) a fifth set of Events that occurred at the Infrastructure Layer;
• correlating Events from the third set of Events with Events from at least one of the fourth set of Events or the fifth set of Events;
• wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.