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Informationen zum Autor David Luckham is a Research Professor (emeritus) at Stanford University. Luckham's research and consulting activities in software technology include multi-processing and business processing languages, event-driven systems, complex event processing, program verification, systems architecture modeling and simulation, and automated deduction and reasoning systems. He is a lecturer and keynote speaker at select international conferences and congresses and the author of The Power of Events. Klappentext Find out how Events Processing (EP) works and how it can work for youBusiness Event Processing: An Introduction and Strategy Guide thoroughly describes what EP is, how to use it, and how it relates to other popular information technology architectures such as Service Oriented Architecture.* Explains how sense and response architectures are being applied with tremendous results to businesses throughout the world and shows businesses how they can get started implementing EP* Shows how to choose business event processing technology to suit your specific business needs and how to keep costs of adopting it down* Provides practical guidance on how EP is best integrated into an overall IT strategy and how its architectural styles differ from more conventional approachesThis book reveals how to make the most advantageous use of event processing technology to develop real time actionable management information from the events flowing through your company's networks or resulting from your business activities. It explains to managers and executives what it means for a business enterprise to be event-driven, what business event processing technology is, and how to use it. Zusammenfassung * This book will tell enterprise and business managers how to make the most advantageous use of event processing technology to develop real time actionable management information from the events flowing through their company s networks or resulting from their business activities and those of their competitors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii CHAPTER 1 Event Processing and the Survival of the Modern Enterprise 1 Four Basic Questions about Events 2 What Are Events and Which Ones Are Important? 3 Why Invest in Event Processing? 5 Know How Well You're Doing 9 Use All Event Sources 10 Detect When What You Need to Know Happens 11 Event Processing in Use 16 The Human Element and Other Sources of Errors 21 Extract What You Want to Know 22 Getting Started 25 CHAPTER 2 Sixty Years of Event Processing 27 Event Driven Simulation 29 Networks 33 Active Databases 35 Middleware 36 The Enterprise Service Bus 38 Chaos in the Marketing of Information Systems 39 Service Oriented Architecture 40 Event Driven Architecture 44 Summary: Event Processing, 1950-2010 46 CHAPTER 3 First Concepts in Event Processing 49 New Technology Begets New Problems 50 What Is an Event? 51 Event Clouds 54 Levels of Events and Event Analysis 57 Remark on Standards for Business Events 60 Event Streams 61 Processing the Event Cloud 64 Complex Event Processing and Systems That Use It 69 Discussion: Immutability of Events 75 Summary 76 CHAPTER 4 The Rise of Commercial Event Processing 77 The Dawn of Complex Event Processing (CEP) 78 Four Stages of CEP 79 Simple CEP (1999-2007) 81 CEP versus Custom Coding 83 Creeping CEP (2004-2012) 84 Business Activity Monitoring 85 Awareness and Education in Event Processing 87 Languages for Event Processing 87 Dashboards and Human- Computer Interfaces 89 Human- Computer Interfaces 91 CEP Becomes a Recogn...
