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HOW TO IMPLEMENT EFFECTIVE EVENT-PROCESSING SOLUTIONS

Event processing has the power to transform businesses by providing near real-time visibility into what is happening within a company and in its external environment, allowing for rapid response to emerging threats and opportunities, reducing the duration of business processes, and enhancing the quality and availability of information.

EVENT PROCESSING: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies (McGraw-Hill; October 2009; Hardcover: $49.95) by K. Mani Chandy and W. Roy Schulte is the first book to explain, in a step-by-step manner, how to design, deploy, and use event-processing (EP) systems in business processes and the systems that support them. It bridges the gap between business books that discuss why it is important for a company to be agile and able to spot emerging threats and opportunities quickly, and technical books that show how to write event-driven programs. The authors illustrate in detail how EP improves a business person's situation awareness - an accurate awareness of the global environment in which the person operates - and helps the business sense and respond to changes in its environment more quickly and effectively.

Chandy and Schulte explain that event processing is an increasingly important part of enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) strategies. Readers will recognize that it is synergistic with SOA and BPM, making them more effective and better able to respond quickly to escalating business requirements. Event processing is at the heart of "smart" business applications and smart devices.

The book is aimed at a broad audience, including business analysts, IT architects, CIOs, application managers, project leaders, and technology-aware businesspeople outside of the IT department. The authors discuss the role of EP in enabling business dashboards and situation awareness; the types of EP applications and their costs and benefits; how event-driven architecture (EDA) complements conventional request-driven SOA; and how to implement event processing without disrupting existing applications.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
K. Mani Chandy, Ph.D., is the Simon Ramo Professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He has received numerous awards including the CMG Michelson Award, the IEEE Kobayashi Award, the Babbage Award, and several teaching awards. Dr. Chandy is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. His research is on distributed systems, event processing, and performance analysis with an emphasis on smart systems and sense-and-respond systems.

W. Roy Schulte is Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Inc. He was the lead author of the 1996 Gartner report that introduced the term service-oriented architecture (SOA) to the industry. Mr. Schulte also originated the research in the field of message brokers, coined the term business activity monitoring (BAM), and wrote the first analyst reports on the zero-latency enterprise and the enterprise service bus (ESB). Mr. Schulte is a member of the Event Processing Technical Society steering committee.

EVENT PROCESSING: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies by K. Mani Chandy and W. Roy Schulte
McGraw-Hill; October 2009; Hardcover: $49.95; 256 pages; ISBN-10: 0-07-1633502; ISBN-13: 978-0-07-1633505

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