Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies

3Using Event Processingin Business Applications

This chapter explores the business implications of the two seminal aspects of event processing: event-driven architecture (EDA) and complex event processing (CEP). Each is valuable by itself, but they’re even more interesting when used together as event-driven CEP. Event-driven CEP is the underlying technology for continuous intelligence systems in which computers analyze events as they occur instead of afterthe fact. The main reason for the recent upsurge of interest in event processing is that continuous intelligence has become practical to use in a wide variety of business situations. This chapter explains the nature of EDA and CEP and describes how they are applied separately and together to ...