You can bind business indicators to BPEL XPath expression functions during creation. Business indicators are designed to be sharable and bindable to multiple BPEL processes within the composite. This enables you to monitor their value changes from one process to another when the composite is executed during analytics runtime.

You can define the following business indicators in a BPEL process:

• Define a counter binding for the BPEL process. An available counter is selected and bound to the BPEL process without the need to specify any XPath expression. A counter is meant to count how many times a certain BPEL activity gets executed at runtime. This means there is no need to specify any XPath expression for the binding.

• Define a dimension binding for the BPEL process. An available dimension is selected and bound to a BPEL XPath expression.

• Define a measure binding for the BPEL process. An available measure is selected and bound to a BPEL XPath expression.

For more information about business indicators, see Introduction to Business Indicators.

After definition, you can edit and delete business indicators in the Business Indicator Overview Editor described in How to Edit Business Indicators in the Business Indicator Overview Editor.