Event Driven Architecture

Event Driven Architectures Enables Greater Responsiveness

As organizations become more interconnected, the volume and pace of information is accelerating rapidly. Organizations are increasingly adopting both event driven architectures (EDA) and service-oriented architectures (SOA) as mechanisms to respond to fast-changing conditions. An event driven architecture enables an organization to respond to rapidly-changing circumstances. With an event driven architecture, an organization can exploit opportunities more quickly, identifying threats more proactively, and generally respond more opportunistically – and more timely - to events as they happen. Progress® Apama®, from Progress Software, is market's leading platform for implementing sophisticated solutions that leverage the principles of an event driven architecture.

Event Driven Architecture & Service Oriented Architecture: Different but Complementary

Service oriented architectures allow software systems to interoperate dynamically, but SOAs do not by themselves deliver the business insight that is required by modern organizations. Service oriented architectures provide an infrastructure for an integrated fabric of services, but event processing (the embodiment of an event driven architecture), allows an organization to capitalize on that integration. With event processing, organizations gain a complementary, value-added capability that provides real-time detection and response to the myriad events spawned by service oriented architectures. With event processing technology, organizations can monitor, analyze and act on events generated by a SOA and derive true business insight.

Apama's Event Driven Architecture

The Progress® Apama® CEP Platform, is the leading platform for creating event processing solutions, and thus provides a rich foundation for implementing a sophisticated event driven architecture. Apama's architecture uniquely eliminates the latency found in traditional systems, monitoring inbound data streams and analyzing them for recognizable relationships and patterns. Once detected, Apama provides the mechanisms for actionable response, reducing latency to sub-millisecond response times. With Apama, organizations gain a robust event processing platform in support of a wide variety of event-driven applications, including algorithmic trading in capital markets, RFID-enabled inventory management and distribution, sensor-driven industrial operations, and satellite telemetry fusion in defense and intelligence.

In addition to event processing products, Progress Software also provides solutions for integration services, data integration, object database management, and other real time data integration scenarios.