Extreme Agility? Try Event-Driven SOA
Event-driven SOA allows companies to anticipate or predict customer needs, make faster decisions, and take action that benefits the business and its stakeholders.
To prepare for this future, today's CIO must embrace new elements within the enterprise IT infrastructure. Critical components include event processing technologies with both the right paradigm and the necessary performance to effectively model this new reality. Supporting applications that process millions of transactions per second will require an IT infrastructure robust enough to provide the higher levels of availability, security and throughput needed as business velocity continues to intensify.
Taking steps to become an instantly responsive enterprise requires strategic planning and commitment from decision makers. Fortunately, the technology and expertise to expedite this transition is coming to market today. When expertly deployed, these event-driven SOA initiatives can help real-time CIOs truly enable the business to operate at light speed.
Guy Churchward is vice president of engineering at BEA Systems, and oversees product strategy and development in the areas of virtualization/utility computing, and event-driven architecture (EDA), including real-time and complex event processing, portals and Java Virtual Machine technology.
