Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies

5Types of Event-Processing Applications

A list of business problems for which event processing is the preferred solution would help you to determine where it could be applied in your organization; however, such a list would be incomplete and out of date the instant it was compiled. The ever-increasing variety of business problems for which event processing is being used profitably will make any such list obsolete. A better approach is to use a systematic framework to evaluate whether event processing in general and event-driven architecture (EDA) and complex event processing (CEP) in particular are appropriate for a given problem. Let us look at a framework built upon the material presented in the preceding chapters. Let’s use this framework ...