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TOP THREE LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON FrontPage Feature The Role of Event-Driven Architecture in Business Applications
A proven paradigm
Aug. 28, 2008 12:45 PM
Three-letter acronyms (TLAs) are hardly new in Information Technology: EAI, ESB, SOA, BPM, BAM, ETL, MDM; the list goes on and on. This article is about yet another three-letter acronym, EDA, which stands for Event-Driven Architecture. EDA is not a brand new technology, but rather a proven paradigm in system-level programs, war and military simulator applications, gaming, and other areas. EDA has started to shape how general-purpose business applications are architected.
Business Applications and EDA Business intelligence is one of the tools used by businesses to differentiate themselves from the competition and to understand threats. Traditionally, business intelligence was generally gathered by analyzing past business data to predict business opportunities or threats and necessary adjustments were made to the system. Although the need for traditional approaches is not going away, a new set of challenges has emerged where the timing of the business intelligence is more important than its accuracy. In other words, the value of any given intelligence significantly erodes with time, in some cases in seconds. This development creates the need for a system that can process business events as they occur and respond to opportunities and threats in real-time. This system should be based on an event-driven architecture that receives and analyzes events from multiple sources in real-time and takes outbound actions as needed. This system should be layered alongside a variety of existing architectures and systems: SOA, ESB, EAI, packaged applications, and so forth. Technical Overview
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