Event-Driven Applications Deliver Agility to Enterprise IT 9 July 2003 Back To Application Integration & Middleware Focus Area

	That you viewed this document is an event. It may be an irrelevant event or an event of note. If you are the thousandth reader to view this document in the last minute, an alert may be sent to the webmaster to elevate the document status. There are a countless number of events occurring in the real world every second. Only some of these events are of note in any given context. In business, a change in the state of the business is always a notable event, although it is not always captured. Some events require immediate attention; others are an indication of normal business operations. Capturing the events as they occur and interpreting their meaning in real time are the key capabilities of a real-time enterprise. With the increasing government regulation of business practices and new security requirements, monitoring events becomes not only a good competitive practice, but also a legal requirement.  Read more		Yefim V. Natis Vice President and Research Director, Gartner Research

			The Growing Role of Events in Enterprise Applications 9 July 2003 Roy W. Schulte  Future applications will be more event-driven than today's applications. Five forces are behind this development.

	Event-Driven Applications: Definition and Taxonomy 7 July 2003 Roy W. Schulte  Simple event-driven applications are becoming widespread in mainstream enterprises. More-powerful complex-event processing is a niche phenomenon today but will become more common by 2008.		The Business Value of Event-Driven Processes 8 July 2003 Roy W. Schulte  The key difference between conventional business processes and a new generation of improved business processes is that the new processes are event-driven.
	The Case for Event-Driven Design 7 July 2003 Roy W. Schulte  Event-driven applications sense and respond to business events, which are relevant changes in the state of the world. Event-driven design is crucial for achieving the speed and agility required in modern business strategies.		Event-Driven Architecture Complements SOA 8 July 2003 Roy W. Schulte  Yefim V. Natis  Event-driven architecture and service-oriented architecture are compatible but distinct concepts, each with its own advantages and limitations. Enterprises need both.
	B2B Application Integration Is Typically Event-Oriented 8 July 2003 Benoit Lheureux  Service-oriented architecture is increasingly used for internal IT projects, but, in business-to-business scenarios, the separated logical unit of work and one-way trading-partner interactions usually favor event-driven design.		Events Will Transform Application Servers 8 July 2003 Yefim V. Natis  Today's application servers can act as simple "event servers." To handle complex events, application servers will become "complex-event servers" and will transform themselves in the process.
	Opportunistic BAM Pits Users Against IT Planners 30 June 2003 David W. McCoy  Business activity monitoring puts agility and ROI first, technology second. Most BAM products reinforce that mind-set. IT planners won't attain an all-encompassing BAM infrastructure, with pockets of opportunistic BAM the norm.		NSM Products Support Event-Driven Applications 24 June 2003 Cameron Haight  Milind Govekar  Network and systems management products incorporate many tenets of event-driven applications, while providing a key monitoring function for their business application counterparts.
	Finite State Machines: Modeling for EDA 8 July 2003 Jess Thompson  Event-driven architecture requires nontraditional ways to express the behavior of a system. Finite state machines provide an excellent modeling technique for tying events to actions.