Business Event Processing Resources
Progress® Apama® Business Event Processing (BEP) platform allow companies to respond to fast-moving events in real time. It offers best-in-class flexibility, performance and interoperability. Learn more about complex event processing technologies by reading through our broad selection of white papers, on-demand webinars, podcasts, books and other helpful learning resources.
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”.
Accelerating Operational Responsiveness
Replay the webinar Accelerating Operational Responsiveness to learn why 82% of firms surveyed plan to invest in technology that speeds business processes well before the close of 2010. You’ll also learn how leading firms in telecom, energy and logistics use technology today to:
Your Business Moves Faster When You're at the Controls
Moderated by IDC Program Director, Maureen Fleming, and Progress CTO, Dr. John Bates, this webinar explores factors driving the emergence of business navigation systems and how they improve operational responsiveness. Replay this webinar and hear how you can capitalize on opportunities, drive higher efficiency, and reduce risk with business navigation systems.
Building Responsive Enterprises: One Decision at a Time
Listen as industry analyst James Taylor will discusses how decision management improves business performance by identifying the key decisions that drive value in your business. Here how you can futher improve on those decisions by leveraging your company’s assets, specifically expertise, data, and legacy & existing systems.
Responding to Business Events as they Happen
How clear is your insight into the applications, services and business events that affect your customers' experience? If your company is like 67% of those surveyed, then your customers are experiencing service problems before you know anything about them. Replay a 30-minute webinar to get the insight you need to achieve operational responsiveness so that you can respond to business events in real time.
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.
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 of Forrester Research 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.
Coping with Fast Business Change
Listen to Mike Gualtieri, Principle Analyst, Forrester Research Inc., and Dr. John Bates, CTO, Progress Software, as they 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.
Driving the Electric Transformation with Real-Time Information
As electric companies modernize their grids, learn how complex event processing can improve operational responsiveness.
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.
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 readiness of legacy applications to support real-time smart metering data
- The cost and difficulties of integrating disparate utilities systems
- Steps for moving to a smart grid-compatible environment, cost-effectively and non-intrusively
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Navigating Business in Stormy Conditions with Complex Event Processing
Maureen Fleming from IDC and David Olson of Apama explore how industries can use business event processing to make proactive decisions.
Putting the Smart in Smart Grid
Smart grids are shifting the way the energy industry manages operations and serves its customers. The systems that help manage operations need to be more flexible and adaptive -- these new applications represent the "Smart" in "Smart Grid". Learn how event processing plays a critical role in reshaping the delivery of energy and services.
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.
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.
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.
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 by Charles Brett and Mike Gualtieri, Forrester Research, Inc., explains how you can make informed decisions around the use of complex event processing and business rules.
Responsive Process Management (RPM) Technology Audit
In this new report, OVUM analyst Rob Hailstone shares the results of his recent technology audit of RPM. He reveals the strengths and weaknesses of RPM. Rob also provides a full solution overview and provides analysis and examples of RPM implementations in the real world.
RPM in Financial Services
Gain real-time visibility into your payments operations so that you can identify payment exceptions or abnormal loan approval queue length/times. Get insight as to how you can get a real-time view into your clearing and settlement operations to detect prospective trade failures before they cost you client satisfaction and profits. Read this paper and learn about other ways RPM can help those in financial services achieve operational responsiveness.
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.
Achieving Foreign Exchange Transparency via Aggregation
Learn more about changes in the Foreign Exchange (FX) financial world and the role algorithms play. This paper presents ideas on market aggregation and how Progress Apama can help you customize automated applications that require an aggregated view. Market aggregation provides one-click trading across all liquidity, so traders are free to focus on high-value deals with only occasional manual intervention.
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.
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.
IDC Insight: Business Navigation Systems Combine CEP with BPM
This whitepaper from Maureen Fleming of IDC examines the concept of a “business navigation system” that is built with event processing and leverages existing business intelligence and process automation investments. Such a system enables companies to manage business-relevant events in real-time, identifying the first moment a problem or opportunity is predictable, so you can improve the end result
Achieving Operational Responsiveness Through Responsive Process Management (RPM)
Without having actionable insight or the ability to sense and respond immediately to the events that affect your business day in and day out, you’re flying blind. Learn how the Progress Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite can help you become operationally responsive so you can respond to changing conditions and business events in real-time.
Building Responsive Enterprises: One Decision at a Time
Get a closer look at decision management and find out how it weaves business process management (BPM), event correlation, and business activity monitoring (BAM) together. Read the paper written by James Taylor and learn more about the role of automating decisions within your business operations.
IDC Executive Brief: Event Processing in Transportation and Logistics
Learn 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.
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?
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.
IDC's CEP Opportunity Analysis and Assessment of Key Products
This is an excerpt of the IDC study by Maureen Fleming and Jeff Silverstein looking at complex event processing. The excerpt includes IDC opinion on the market for CEP, what defines CEP and profiles Progress Apama, which was ranked Top CEP Innovator in the report.
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.
The Forrester Wave: Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms, Q3 2009
In its annual Wave report, Forrester recognizes Apama for its strong market presence, strategy and complex event processing features.
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.
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.
Progress Apama's Integrated FrameworkPresented By David Olson Listen to this podcast to learn about Progress Apama's Integrated Framework and hear about the advantages it gives to our customers. |
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Managing Transportation and Logistics with ApamaPresented By David Olson Get an overview of how Apama helps the transportation and logistics industry monitor events in real-time to optimize operations. |
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Putting the Smart in Smart GridPresented By Matt Rothera Listen to learn about the critical role of Event Processing in reshaping the delivery of energy and services to your customers. |
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Event-driven SOA vs CEP. What is the Difference?Presented By Giles Nelson Hear examples of event-driven styles of business and what industries would truly benefit from an event-driven SOA infrastructure. |
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eWeek InterviewPresented By John Bates In this eWeek interview, Dr. John Bates introduces CEP and its role within organizations, focusing on how and where CEP and BAM can fit within a broader IT architecture |
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Gain Better Enterprise Visibility of Your SOAPresented By Giles Nelson What if you could gain better visibility of your SOA infrastructure? Listen as Giles Nelson presents his observations on the challenges that many enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements and deploy smart solutions that will support these requirements. |
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
 
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Gain Efficiency and Avoid RiskIf there's one business absolute, it's that our information will exponentially continue to grow, get faster and be more complex. This forces business decision makers to be far more creative in far less time, and to become operationally responsive. In this 3-minute teaser, three leading experts, Research VPs Jim Sinur and Roy Schulte, both from analyst firm Gartner, Inc., and Dr. John Bates, CTO of Progress Software, reveal how you can gain actionable insight into your business so that you can become more efficient, avoid risk, and capitalize on opportunities. Click here to listen to the entire video. |
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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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Four Types of Business Process VisibilityIn Part IV of our VII part video series, Dr. John Bates talks about the four different types of visibility that many companies may (or may not) have. These include visibility into: 1) modeled processes (business process management), 2) un-modeled processes (usually legacy processes), 3) outside processes, and 4) the interaction between processes. |
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Savvion Acquisition - Part IDr. Bates, CTO of Progress Software shares the reasoning behind Progress Software’s entry into the business process management (BPM) marketplace through the acquisition of Savvion. |
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Savvion Acquisition - Part IIDr. Ketabchi, founder and CEO of Savvion, and Dr. Bates, CTO of Progress Software, discuss the recent acquisition, Progress Software’s entry into the business process management (BPM) marketplace, and why organizations must evolve their business to be highly response, dynamic and predictive. |
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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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Delivering Operational ResponsivenessPart III of our VII part series. Hear how Responsive Process Management (RPM) brings together three proven technologies that help companies achieve operational responsiveness – business transaction assurance, complex event processing, and business process management. |
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Real-time Insight Saves LivesApama and RFID technology gives medical personnel the real-time core body temperatures and positions of participants in an arduous four day walk in the Netherlands. |
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Premier Manufacturing Gained Real-Time Shop Floor VisibilityPremier Manufacturing gained real-time shop floor visibility with Factory MRI from Manuvis and saved $1 Million. |
