Apama Resources
Monitor, analyze, and act on events within milliseconds with Progress® Apama®, the broadest, deepest and most flexible platform for building your event-driven applications. Learn more about complex event processing (CEP) by reviewing our broad selection of white papers, on-demand webinars, bylined articles, podcasts, books and other helpful resources.
See Every Move Your Traders Make
You are on the front lines, and the gloves are off. The political backlash following the global financial crisis shows no signs of abating. If anything, it is becoming more radicalized—particularly for monitoring and market surveillance. Read this paper to find out what you can expect in the coming year. Learn more about the implications for compliance and risk managers, and impending changes to monitoring and surveillance requirements.
Must You Choose Between Business Rules and Complex Event Processing Platforms?
While CEP and business rules platforms share characteristics, each provides unique capabilities that serve different needs and – in many cases – complement each other. This report (valued at $499 but yours for FREE), written by Forrester Research, Inc., explains how you can make informed decisions around the use of complex event processing and business rules.
Overtaken by Events? The Quest for Operational Responsiveness.
Find out what 400 large companies say about their response tools and processes in place now, compared to what they wish they had in this study conducted by Vanson-Bourne Research. This study also reveals why event-driven architecture will likely become the IT standard within the next five years.
FX Aggregation—Defusing eCommerce Aggravation
According to Dow Jones Newswires, half of the biggest 10 banks in foreign exchange are overhauling their trading technology in a bid to stay at the top of the business. Learn how an event-driven platform can help you accelerate deployment and reduce time-to-value.
Business Transformation Through Real-Time Response - Business Event Processing in Transport and Logistics
With rough times predicted for the transport and logistics market, there is increased pressure to find new operational efficiencies. The ships must sail, the trucks must arrive on time, and the ultimate consumer still expects the right product at the right time and in the right condition. The challenge is to move from a passive mode of decision-making to one that is proactive and influenced by real-time business events. The infrastructure is mature. The technology is ready. Are you?
How Event-Driven Processes Make Financial Services More Responsive
This white paper, written by industry analyst Sandy Kemsley, discusses how linking events and processes can make processes more responsive to changing conditions by being able to react quickly to changing conditions with less manual intervention. It also presents a real-world financial services example of an event-driven process.
CEP for Energy Trading and Risk
This data sheet explains how Progress Software is pioneering the use of complex event processing (CEP) within traded energy markets.
Deliver Real-time Operational Responsiveness With Business Event Processing
This white paper describes the concept of business event processing (BEP), what events really are, and how they can be used to increase decision precision. The paper also compares event processing with traditional business intelligence solutions.
Hands off High-Frequency Trading
In this article, Dr. John Bates asserts that high frequency trading is not the root of all evil, and he shares his thoughts on how regulators should address it.
Managing Assurance with BEP: Driving Success in Customer, Service and Network Assurance
Learn how Business Event Processing can provide a foundation for an intelligent, next-generation communications by delivering unprecedented visibility and control of real-time business events.
Top 10 Tips for Effective EP
With complex event processing, businesses are able to monitor their business information, analyze it in real time and then act. But how do you get started with an event processing project? This paper provides tips on what to consider, what to do, and what not to do.
Managing Risk Across the Trading Lifecycle
Today’s markets demand a risk profile that is real time. What a firm cannot see—or see in a timely manner—is where the greatest risk lies.The good news is that for firms pursuing algorithmic or high-frequency trading, the technology to deliver real-time risk management is now available. Read this white paper to find out.
Real-time Insight into Payments
Dr. Giles Nelson discusses why having real-time visibility of your payment processes is an important requirement in today's quickly changing payments landscape.
Managing the Energy Crisis
See why competitive trading strategies coupled with the right mix of risk mitigation is a winning strategy in the energy market.
Programmatic Trading & Risk In Energy Commodities
This article, written by Mike Reilly and published by worldPower, examines the challenges and opportunities in applying Programmatic Trading and Risk Management (PTRM) techniques to the energy markets.
Progress Apama in Manufacturing
Learn more about how business event processing from Apama can significantly enhance the decision-making process with real-time analysis. Being able to see through all business processes, control devices and data sources and act on important events will quickly drive out inefficiencies.
An Up Close Look at BAM and BEP
Where do these technologies intersect, overlap and outshine one another? Listen as Dr. Giles Nelson, Chief Technology Strategist, and David Olson, Director, Business Event Processing, for a closer look at business activity monitoring (BAM) and business event processing (BEP). Hear how BAM and BEP compare, and get an up close look at how managing business events might just be what your business looking for.
Complex Event Processing (CEP) is Cool and Very Hot!
Register for this informative Webinar, “Complex Event Processing is Hot and Very Cool!” with Mike Gualtieri and Dr. Giles Nelson of Progress Apama to get an overview of how Complex Event Processing (CEP) is making a positive impact on how business operate, complete with some real world examples.
Build Quickly, Run Fast Intro, Part I & II
Though controversy about high frequency trading (HFT) dominates the news, there is no argument that algorithmic trading has become a key component of the trading arsenal of many firms. This three-part Webinar Series: “Build Quickly, Run Fast" shares how Progress can help create trading strategies that exploit your unique trading ideas to outrun the competition and quickly adjust to new market conditions.
CEP: Strategic or Tactical Weapon
Presenters discuss the role that complex event processing plays in managing risk and the IT landscape. This webinar features insights from noted capital markets industry analyst, Adam Honore from Aite Group and Dr. John Bates the founder and general manager of Progress Apama, the industry’s leading CEP platform for Capital Markets. You'll hear short and incisive presentations and a lively Q&A session at the end.
Coping with Fast Business Change
Listen to Mike Gualtieri and Dr. John Bates of Progress Software discuss how you can cope more efficiently with fast change and business transformation. Find out how other companies are adapting to their changing environments at a speed never previously possible and how business leaders and IT must work together to achieve success, and operational responsiveness.
Navigating Business in Stormy Conditions with Complex Event Processing
Maureen Fleming from IDC explores how industries can use business event processing to make proactive decisions.
Event Processing Meets BAM
Where do these technologies intersect, overlap and outshine one another?
Listen to this webinar to learn how business event processing (BEP) and business activity monitoring (BAM) differ and potentially intersect. During the webinar will get an up close look at how managing business events might just be what you’re looking for.
Event Processing Meets BI: Intersections and Overlaps
Listen to this on-demand webinar and get an up-close look at event processing and business intelligence. Learn first-hand how they overlap and intersect.
FX Pricing and Hedging
Progress Apama invites you to a two-part webinar series where we will share our experience in the application of the Apama event-driven approach to deliver solutions for FX Pricing and Hedging.
How to Reduce Costs, Improve Quality and Increase Revenue Simultaneously
Watch this video presentation and hear Dr. M.A. Ketabchi, Chief Strategist at Progress, explain how you can increase your business operations IQ to meet your key business objectives with the right combination of business process management (BPM) and business event processing (BEP).
Driving the Electric Transformation with Real-Time Information
As electric companies modernize their grids, learn how complex event processing can improve operational responsiveness.
Energy trading & real-time risk management – Two sides of the same coin?
In this recorded webinar you'll hear from industry practitioners as they explore how companies can address these challenges and stay ahead of their competitors.
Flying High with Real-Time Information: Operational, Customer and Revenue Management in Real-time
Behind the airline industry is a complex network of personnel, systems and services. View this Webinar to learn how responding to events such as weather, bookings and scheduling in real-time will give airlines situational awareness to guide decision making.
Improving Assurance at Multiple Levels: Event Processing to Manage Customer, Service and Network Assurance
In association with the TM Forum.
In these challenging times, organizations are looking for new revenue streams and ways to drive out unnecessary costs whilst delivering a superior customer experience. Event Processing allows you to know the state, performance and quality of service in real-time and thereby react to opportunities or threats fast enough to make a difference.
Information Overload? Three Ways Real-time Information is Changing Decision Management
In a recent survey by Vanson Bourne, 94% of respondents say that responding to information immediately is critical to their business, yet only 8% currently report information in real time. Why? Because many are unable to filter through the enormous deluge of information coming at them from every angle. This web seminar discusses 3 ways that real-time information and business events affect your decision-making process. Through real-time visibility and immediate sense and respond, you get the right information at the right time. The result is decision management that is “in the moment” and operational responsiveness that meets the speed of your business.
Instant Insight and Control: An Introduction to BEP
Business Event Processing (BEP) greatly improves operational responsiveness by automating the real-time detection and analysis of business events and information from multiple sources. During this webinar, you’ll see how our most successful customers use BEP to take advantage of market opportunities, reduce risk, and save costs—all while enriching the customer experience.
Paving the Way to Smart Grid Modernization
Learn about a unique, standards-based reference architecture from Progress that uses a product integration bus to simplify technology deployment and upgrades. The technology, integration and domain expertise of Progress also enables them to share insight about market and regulatory conditions, the cost and difficulties of integrating disparate utilities systems, and steps for moving to a smart grid-compatible environment, cost-effectively and non-intrusively
Programmatic Trading for the Energy Markets
Download a recording of this virtual roundtable moderated by Stella Farrington, Editor, EnergyRisk magazine and joined by Dale Emmerson, Head of ETRM Practice, Deloitte Consulting, Steve Roberts, Director of Sales, ICE Futures Europe, Dr. Paul Fermor, Algorithmic Trader, Starmark Trading & Mike Reilly, Head of Commodities, Progress Apama
Real-Time Goes Prime Time
Listen in as Intelligent Enterprise editor, Doug Henschen, and Progress Apama Event Processing expert, David Olson, provide an up-close look at what it takes to begin managing your business in real-time—responding and taking advantage of events as they happen.
Real-time Risk – A Mandate for Trading in Volatile Markets
This webinar features insights from Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst, TABB Group, Dhiru Patel, Chief Quantitative Strategist, Thomas Weisel Partners and Dr. John Bates the founder and general manager of Progress Apama, the industry’s leading CEP platform for Capital Markets solutions. Listen to short and incisive presentations and a lively Q&A session at the end.
Riding the FX Liquidity Wave
If you work for an FX trader/sell side firm, there are three powerful reasons why you should watch this webinar about handling the increase in FX liquidity fragmentation:
- Learn an even better way to attract client flow
- See how to leverage the most advanced technology
- Discover how to increase market share and profits
Smooth Sailing in Maritime Logistics
Maritime Logistics is a critical supply chain component and your position in the chain should be seen as the strongest link. Listen to this Webcast to learn how the shipping industry is achieving significant cost savings by using the Progress Apama Event Processing Platform to automate the monitoring and analysis of shipping information in real-time.
Surveillance and Monitoring
This recorded webinar outlines the key challenges facing the trading community when looking to implement a market monitoring and surveillance solution.
Tapping into the Information Pipeline in Real-Time
Learn how the Oil & Gas industry uses complex event processing to gain a competitive advantage with real-time information monitoring and analysis.
The Missing Link in Delivering First-Class Location-Based Services
Location-based services are not the future – the technology, infrastructure and business practices are readily available. Attend this Webinar to learn how event processing can help you to manage the complexity of location-based service events across multiple sources.
The Role of Rules in BPM and BEP
Do you understand the rules of business process management and event processing? Watch this on-demand webinar and gain valuable insights on how rules not only play a critical role in BPM and BEP technologies and applications, but how they can help you manage the unforeseen and make improvements “before it’s too late”.
The End of "Clothing Optional" Trading
Written by Dan Hubscher and published by TABBFORUM, this article talks about the current outcries regarding "latency hops" and how complex event processing (CEP) offers a solution. With a real-time risk solution in place, a message can enter through an order management system, be run through the risk hurdles and checks, and leave for the exchange a few microseconds later - thereby preventing "fat finger" trading and fraud.
Keeping a Watchful Eye on the Markets
If you see something, say something. This article presents thoughts on how nosiness and surveillance can pay off but the fix may not be more rules and regulations. It may be real time market surveillance technology that can be used to monitor and detect patterns that indicate potential market abuse, such as insider trading or market manipulation. Written by Dr. Giles Nelson and published by TABBFORUM.
BM&F Bovespa Sets Its Sights on Growth
BM&F Bovespa, Latin America’s largest exchange, has become a Mecca for the international electronic trading community, while at the same time catering to the growing local appetite for algorithmic trading. Read this article to learn why Dr. Giles Nelson of Progress thinks it's possible that Brazil’s BM&F exchange could be the second biggest in the world by the end of 2011.
Hands off High-Frequency Trading
In this article, Dr. John Bates asserts that high frequency trading is not the root of all evil, and he shares his thoughts on how regulators should address it.
Catch Me If You Can: Stopping the Rogue Traders
Written by Dr. Giles Nelson and published by the TABBFORUM, this article talks in detail about rogue trading and the deliberate manipulation of investment pricing using electronic trading. It talks about the benefits and potential problems with high frequency trading, and touches on the importance of market surveillance in the capital markets industry.
Opening the Right Door to Cross-Asset Trading
Whether it’s an issue of providing new services to institutional investors or deploying a costsaving maneuver in a down market, setting up electronic cross-asset trading capabilities is a difficult task for any broker-dealer. DWT assembled Steve Grob, director of strategy with Fidessa, John Bates, founder and general manager with Progress Apama, and Harry Gozlan, founder and CEO of Smart Trade Technologies, to discuss the common hurdles in deploying cross-asset trading platforms.
Programmatic Trading & Risk In Energy Commodities
This article, written by Mike Reilly and published by worldPower, examines the challenges and opportunities in applying Programmatic Trading and Risk Management (PTRM) techniques to the energy markets.
Apama Event Processing
Progress® Apama® is the market’s leading platform for building sophisticated Complex Event Processing (CEP) applications. With Apama, organizations can monitor fast-moving event streams, detect complex patterns, and take action – all within a millisecond.
Apama Architecture
The Apama platform provides a set of capabilities uniquely suited to building scalable, event-driven applications and is focused on three overarching themes: productivity, performance and integration.
Apama Event Modeler
A highly intuitive graphical modeling tool, the Progress® Apama® Event Modeler is designed specifically for business and quantitative analysts. In those environments where business requirements can change quickly and there is a bottom-line imperative to ensure that applications are developed and deployed quickly.
Smart Order Router Accelerator
Get an overview of the Smart Order Router (SOR) Accelerator and learn how you can jumpstart the implementation of algorithmically-driven applications that will route equities orders to trading venues in support of best execution requirements.
Apama Studio
Apama Studio encompasses every aspect of event-driven application development, from adapter connectivity to application coding and debugging, through to dashboard visualization. Read the data sheet to learn more.
Apama Studio Production Profiler
Profiling an application allows a developer to glean valuable execution statistics, such as memory usage of a given object, execution times of specific code modules and CPU usage. It can provide detailed and valuable insight into how an application is performing and where to target code optimization.
Operational Responsiveness in Telecommunications
Use Apama to process and analyze event-stream data across multiple sources to take immediate action on threats or opportunities. You will dramatically enhance service delivery, customer assurance and drive new revenue.
Realize the Benefits of Real-time Information
Learn how business event processing can dramatically transform decision-making by responding to situations as they happen, ensuring your operational effectiveness.
Apama Capital Markets Foundation
This data sheets presents the four application components - Market Data, Analytics, Order Management and Infrastructure - of our Capital Markets Foundation.
Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform
Learn more about the industry leading algorithmic trading platform for applying the power of complex event processing (CEP).
Apama: Backtesting and Analysis of Trading Strategies
Advanced testing of new trading strategies and analysis of existing ones can be critical to achieving the necessary confidence to deploy innovative new algorithms into the market. As the sophistication of algorithmic trading increases, so must that of the tools that both evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies and judge their associated risk. With Progress® Apama® Research Studio and Progress® Apama® EventStore™, traders have tools with which to test new strategies and audit the performance of existing ones.
Apama Connectivity for Capital Markets
A one page (ever-expanding) list of Apama's current packaged connectivity choices. Apama's Integrated Adapter Framework supports building new connections by the customer or by Apama. Includes our offering of general infrastructure adapters, as well as plug-ins that are available for both Capital Markets and other applications.
FX Aggregation Accelerator
Get an aggregated view of liquidity across multiple sources. Read this data sheet and learn how you can easily view the depth of multiple markets and click to trade from
a single integrated front end.
Apama Trading Platform Collocated with BGC's eSpeed
The Apama algorithms, collocated with the eSpeed Fixed Income trading platform offered by BGC Partners, Inc., exploit the power of the underlying Apama complex event processing (CEP) platform and its sophisticated development environment.
Progress Apama Offers Algorithmic Execution with CQG
CQG, provider of the industry’s leading trade routing, graphics, and technical analysis tools for real-time and historical analysis, and Progress® Apama®, the market-leading platform for algorithmic trading, have partnered to deliver sophisticated order execution algorithms to CQG users.
How Buy-side Firms Make Progress
Deliver smarter trading algorithms to the buy-side. This data sheet explains how our capital markets platform will help you implement strategies unique to your business without expensive IT resources.
How Sell-side Firms Make Progress
Enhance your sell-side offerings. The data sheet details how you can leverage our algorithmic trading platform to dramatically reduce the time it takes to deploy new algorithmic trading strategies.
Progress Apama Market Surveillance and Monitoring Solution
Track every trade, identify problems and respond - before the damage is done. Learn how the Market Surveillance and Monitoring Solution combines real-time and historical data analysis to detect abusive and manipulative practices as well as anomalous market conditions across asset classes and markets in real-time.
Progress for Payments Lifecycle Management
With Progress Software, banks have increased visibility into payments and can create a “sense and respond”infrastructure that existing and new processes can tap into. Progress helps banks transform their payments operations so they can become more cost-efficient and innovative by bridging the islands of information across middle-and back-office systems.
 
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Using Technology to Prepare for Regulatory ChangeAn important lesson learned from the 2010 Flash Crash: complacency is not an option. Citing past experience and looming financial markets regulations, industry experts discuss why capital markets firms must improve their market surveillance technologies to prevent and deter abusive behavior in real-time. |
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Preparing for Changes in the Regulatory ApproachWith so many regulatory changes like Dodd-Frank and MiFID II looming, how will traders be affected? Watch industry experts discuss the new responsibilities facing capital markets participants, especially brokers, to proactively improve market surveillance, rather than relying on exchanges or regulations to force the issue. |
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Cutting Through Confusion on Financial RegulationThe evolving regulatory landscape is leaving more questions than answers for financial markets in Europe and the U.S. Watch industry experts including Dan Hubscher of Progress Software discuss how regulations like Dodd-Frank in the U.S, and the FSA’s ARROW visits and MiFID II in Europe perpetuate the confusion |
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Apama OverviewWatch this Apama Overview video and learn how you can monitor, analyze and act in real-time with the Apama Event Processing Platform. |
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Algorithmic TradingTo be an algorithmic trading leader, you need to be competitive on multiple frontiers. Dr. John Bates discusses key factors that are critical to algorithmic trading success. |
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Immediate Sense and RespondIn Part V of our VII part video series, John talks about the how one of today's smartest technologies, complex event processing (CEP), allows businesses to process event feeds and have the ability to sense and respond to the opportunities, or threats, that occur in real time. A good example of how CEP benefits companies is in fraud prevention. |
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Enhancements to the Progress Market Surveillance and Monitoring Solution AcceleratorDr. Giles Nelson shares how the new features of the Market Surveillance and Monitoring Solution Accelerator are meeting the demand for increased transparency to mitigate today's risks. |
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FX AggregationDr. John Bates shares how you can achieve consolidated prices and debt across various sources in today’s world of fragmented FX liquidity and enjoy single screen click-to-trade. |
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Giles Nelson's Capital Market Predictions for 2010Dr. Giles Nelson, Deputy CTO at Progress, talks about the trend towards increased transparency and the future of dark pools and high frequency trading. You will also learn what his key predictions for 2010 are.
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Market SurveillancePut your operations and compliance officers back in control. Dr. John Bate talks about how Progress Apama can help you detect market problems and irregularities in real-time.
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The State of Algorithmic TradingDr. John Bates discusses the evolution of algorithmic trading towards high frequency trading. Learn about how to manage risk and prevent rogue traders, and discover the holy grail of market surveillance. |
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Trading in the CloudDr. John Bates explains how smaller organizations can take advantage of hosted, connected, and integrated solutions to enjoy advanced trading capabilities. It’s all in the cloud! |
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Dynamic Surveillance: Detection, Prevention, and DeterrenceGet your hands on this new Tabb Group Vision Note, offered exclusively by Progress Software. Learn how regulatory changes across the marketplace are transforming market surveillance requirements and presenting new challenges for brokers. Get tips for meeting the challenges of this brave new surveillance world. |
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IDC Executive Brief: Event Processing in Transportation and LogisticsLearn how important business event processing (BEP) technology is becoming to transport and logistics providers, and how this technology can be used to achieve success and solve a host of long-term problems. Read how your peers are using innovative technology to reduce operational costs, minimize process inefficiencies, and improve responsiveness to customers and partners. |
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Combining Technologies Opens Up New Business Opportunities at Royal DirkzwagerLearn about the explosion of opportunities presented to Royal Dirkzwager since it began using Sonic Enterprise Service Bus and Apama Complex Event Processing solutions to manage logistics. C3B Consulting explains how Progress technology has enabled this Dutch-based maritime operations provider to extend its focus from the small port of Rotterdam to a global level. This paper also includes an analysis and background of the Progress Responsive Process Management suite conducted by C3B. |
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Adapting to Change In The Financial Industry Using Complex Event ProcessingRead this Forrester case study and learn how implementing Apama fostered one proprietary trading firm's developer responsiveness and versatility. |
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Progress Apama Highly Rated in IDC Assessment of CEP ProductsIn this analysis and assessment of key Complex Event Processing (CEP) products on today's market, IDC authors characterize industry pioneering Apama as, "a highly sophisticated CEP offering, with high scores in all categories. Apama was early to recognize the importance of a non-IT professional development environment. As a result, the product is both technologically strong as well as useable by trained business users." The assessment further spotlights Progress Apama's innovative Risk Firewall built into the Apama Capital Markets Framework as a critical CEP element, given the strong demand in multiple markets for improved governance around risk. |
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Progress Software Company Assessment for Data ManagementIn this Company Assessment of Progress Software, Current Analysis described Progress' diverse data-integration offerings found within Progress OpenEdge, Sonic, DataXtend SI, DataDirect Technologies offerings and Progress Apama. The author wrote, "Existing progress users should take comfort in the fact that the vendor has chalked up two decades of continued profitability, growth and diversification. Their investments in Progress products are safe, and the vendor's worldwide sales, marketing, distribution and support organization – and extensive partner ecosystem – will continue to serve enterprise customers' evolving needs. Existing customers of Progress' DM offerings should continue to rely on the vendor primarily to serve point requirements in such diverse areas as DBMSs (embedded, relational, XML, in-memory), data integration (database drivers, data connectors, data replication, data synchronization, data access, data caching, ESP), and natural-language query. Organizations should recognize that the widespread deployment of business intelligence can benefit the entire organization. They should consider the natural language syntax and "google" like search capabilities of Progress EasyAsk as a vehicle for making BI more pervasive." |
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