What is Event Driven?

“Event driven” refers to a system, application, architecture, or other technology that is designed around producing, detecting, consuming of, and reacting to events. An event is something that happens inside or outside of your organization. It is usually considered a change in the status of something—a purchase or sale, a transaction, a counter, an action—and it may signal an opportunity, a threat, a deviation, or a change in business conditions.

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What is event driven architecture?

Event driven architecture is an architectural pattern for applications and systems that is based on the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events. Building software and systems with event driven architecture facilitates business responsiveness because event driven systems are inherently designed to accommodate asynchronous and unpredictable environments, enabling the organization to gain faster situational awareness, make decisions sooner, and execute more swiftly.

What is event driven technology?

Event driven technology is any application, visualization, middleware, database, or system based on event driven architecture.

What is event processing?

Event processing, or complex event processing, is technology that monitors multiple events in order to identify and obtain meaning of events or event patterns with the “event cloud.” Event processing solutions may discover relationships in events that signal an emerging business opportunity, a threat to be mitigated, or changing business conditions that warrant a response or action from the organization.

What is event driven SOA?

An event driven SOA is a combination of service-oriented architecture and event driven architecture, enabling interaction between events and services that will perform simple or complex functions, or even orchestrate entire business processes. Event driven SOA deliver the benefits of both architectures, including modularity, loose-couplings, and adaptability.

Progress Software provides leading solutions for event driven systems

Progress Software, a leading provider of application infrastructure solutions, offers innovative products for event driven technology. Progress® Apama® is a complex event processing system that enables you to build and deploy event driven applications for real time event processing. With Apama, you can monitor fast-moving data as it enters your system and thereby analyze it and compare it to pre-defined event scenarios—and initiate an action within a millisecond when an opportunity, threat, or other business development is recognized. Apama’s comprehensive and easy-to-use tools allow you to easily design applications that take advantage of event processing systems and event driven technology for greater flexibility, performance, and interoperability and faster operational responsiveness improvement.

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