Includes bibliographical references and index.

Event processing and the survival of the modern enterprise -- Sixty years of event processing -- First concepts in event processing -- The rise of commercial event processing -- Markets and emerging markets for CEP -- Patterns of events -- Making sense of chaos in real time, Part 1 -- Making sense of chaos in real time, Part 2 -- The future of event processing.

"Find out how Events Processing (EP) works and how it can work for you. Business 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 EPShows how to choose business event processing technology to suit your specific business needs and how to keep costs of adopting it downProvides 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"--