SOA Hot Topic
Roundtable: "SOA and Event Processing"
The
SOA Consortium’s SOA
and event processing day
concluded with a hot
topics roundtable
discussion between
industry experts and SOA
Consortium members on
the current and future
relationship of SOA and
event processing in the
context of delivering
business capabilities.
The
roundtable began with
the industry experts,
Ian Foster of Cisco,
Bruce Henderson of
Savant, Ed Lynch of IBM,
and Greg Peres of Sun
Microsystems sharing
their thoughts on SOA
& event processing
business drivers,
technology challenges,
human/organizational
elements and event
processing’s market
timing – new or
retro-technology
strategy.
In
their remarks, each
roundtable leader called
out at least one
business scenario for
SOA and event
processing, these
included manufacturing
floor management,
real-time customer
loyalty programs,
healthcare and
electronic records
management and business
visibility. In respect
to technology
challenges, the
conversation centered on
dealing with massive
amounts of information,
and the requisite
implications on volume,
scale, filtering and
security. An interesting
point on the human
aspect is that today’s
teenagers, with their
ubiquitous use of
texting, are already
very event aware, quick
to respond to problems
or opportunities
delivered via an
event-based mechanism.
After
the opening insights,
the roundtable leaders
engaged in discussion
with each other, and
meeting attendees on a
variety of topics
including event-based
information
proliferation and
privacy, event and event
emitter standards,
recognizing event
patterns and business
trends, and business
confidence in automated,
event-driven reactions.
As
the session closed,
Brenda Michelson asked
each roundtable leader
to provide a design tip
to architects and
developers whose
services need to either
emit or respond to
events.
"SOA
& Event Processing"
Thought Leaders:
Bruce
Henderson, Savant
Ed
Lynch, IBM Corporation
Greg
Peres, SUN Microsystems
Ian
Foster, Cisco
Facilitator:
Brenda Michelson, SOA
Consortium Program
Director
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