Over the last 6 months, the buzz around event-driven architecture has
been increasing in both practitioner and vendor circles. Unlike many
emerging technologies that are hailed as all encompassing replacement
strategies, event-driven architecture is most often viewed as a complement
to today’s most popular enterprise strategies – service-oriented
architecture and business process management.
It is clear from the survey that event-driven architecture provides direct,
measurable business value, and the event processing market, while
nascent, is real. The rest of this report details the survey findings and
relates them to market observations.
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