webMethods Business Events

Continuous, high-throughput event processing

At the core is a proven and scalable CEP engine, optimized for high-throughput and low-latency event processing. The engine can continually monitor thousands of event streams and tens of thousands of events per second looking for complex correlations, patterns and sequences among them and then taking action when it finds them. The event engine’s innovative approach to event stream processing, which isolates it from network latency issues, guarantees predictable, traceable, repeatable and correct results every time.

Standard development language

Unlike custom coding or proprietary languages, webMethods Business Events leverages well-established industry Standard Query Language (SQL) to create the business logic that’s used to evaluate event streams. This means you can leverage existing skills in your organization to ensure a high return on investment and shorten development time. You don’t need to learn a new programming language to get started.

With SQL, you can formulate and modify business logic in an intuitive and concise way by expressing and altering query statements. Since it is a declarative query language, developers can specify the desired results, and the CEP engine will determine the most efficient way to get them what they want.

This approach is less error prone and time consuming than custom coding or using script-based languages. Developers can use the same programming language for both live and historical analyses by combining our CEP engine with well-established database systems and data warehouses technology. So integration is a snap!

Optional event store

While the webMethods Business Events event engine does not need a database to process in-flight events, there are many applications that could benefit from analyzing past events. In these instances, webMethods Business Events can tie into your existing data warehouse or database for long-term storage and analysis.

While the CEP engine performs live analyses, typically with short-term windows, you can use this option to “slice and dice” analytics of historical data. Count on fast and intuitive event evaluation, thanks to its in-memory architecture.

This combination of event store and event analysis offers a level of visibility that’s unprecedented in the industry.

Live, interactive dashboards

As live events continually stream through the system, mission-critical data can be extracted in real-time to provide unprecedented business insight via the integrated live dashboard. Using industry-leading ARIS MashZone technology, live business events can be easily integrated with databases, spreadsheets, Web services and mapping technology to create interactive mashup dashboards. This combination of live data with historical data provides business visualization and insight that help you make better and faster decisions with confidence.

Built for the business person, our live dashboard requires absolutely no programming experience to quickly create interactive, analytical, real-time dashboards. Innovative drag-and-drop dashboard creation takes all of the complexity out of building graphical visualizations based on real-time data. This ensures your teams get exactly the information they need, when they need it.

Seamless integration with your business

At its core, the entire webMethods suite is based upon an Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Elements of the webMethods suite can both consume and produce events for use by other elements. Use this architecture to produce dependable, reactive and scalable integrations and applications that can span every part of your business.

webMethods Business Events can non-intrusively tap into these event streams to look for event correlations and sequences of interest, such as process conditions, bottlenecks, problems or opportunities, and then take action on them.

Since webMethods is an “integration” suite, you’re not limited to only events flowing through webMethods. You can easily tap into other event buses, sources and applications to help give you global and holistic insight into what’s happening across your organization.

Optional event type governance

Events and event type definitions are critical to the smooth operation of any EDA. Both the producer and the consumers of the event must agree on exactly what an event contains and how it is structured, much like a contract. If a change takes place in the structure of an event, then every participant must know or else applications can fail. Thus, events and event types must be treated like any other corporate asset. They must be protected and governed.

To facilitate governance, we offer an optional component for webMethods Business Events—an integrated event type governance engine based on our industry-leading governance product, CentraSite. This enables developers to check in and check out event types for governance and usage. With CentraSite, it becomes easy to take control of your corporate event types so that re-use can be ensured and encouraged. This also can lead to an increased return on investment.