It is predicted that over 50% of large enterprises will use event processing within some or parts of their operations by 2009 – why? Event processing, once reserved for highly specialized problem patterns within limited vertical markets, is gaining momentum across a broader spectrum of problems based on a proven track record showing tangible results within these limited markets. The Event Zero EPN represents a new breed of general purpose event processing platforms designed to utilize event processing techniques in order to solve a wide range of vertical business problems.

Every business can be understood as sequences of planned and unplanned events. These events are generated by humans, internal IT systems, applications, sensors, internal devices, and external data feeds. The Event Zero event processing platform allows businesses to easily tap into these existing event sources, perform real-time analysis, and provide valuable operational business intelligence for critical elements of the business.

Common problems in today's enterprise

One of the most common issue facing organizations today is lack of situational awareness. This problem affects both IT and the business equally. General lack of visibility into key processes is caused by a variety of factors including the following:

• Siloed systems : monolithic systems providing a business function with limited or no integration to other business systems.
• Business islands : stovepipes of related systems managed and owned by different operational and business units
• Point monitoring solutions : multiple special-purpose monitoring tools (network, systems, security, etc.), uncoordinated alarms
• Information overload : in many cases, finding a problem root cause can require sifting though many mundane unrelated events
• Delayed response : significant business impacting events aren’t realized until hours, days, or weeks have passed
• Information gaps : inability to consolidate distributed information due to complexity, cost, and scale

Event Zero event processing overview

The Event Zero event processing platform provides the following capabilities and benefits for your business:

• Overlays on top of existing systems and processes without impacting performance or requiring costly integration.
• Able to analyze and correlate many types of events including:
  • IT Events : OS, DB, Network gear, Applications, etc.
  • External Events : data feeds from external systems
  • Business Events : business actions, commonly recorded within IT systems
  • Environmental Events : typically collected from sensors, readers, production lines, and other non-IT systems
• Provides the ability to aggregate, summarize, and create higher order business events by monitoring many low level events
• Causality drill down for aggregated events
• Delivers situational awareness:
  • Highly scalable across many devices and systems
  • Continuous monitoring
  • Aggregation, summary, and statistics
  • External notifications for users and applications
  • Advanced rule processing to detect complex conditions across system and single transaction boundries
• Improves the agility of the business by facilitating rapid development of event based solutions that can be easily modified to handle new or modified business requirements as they emerge
• Ability to start small (single node, point solution) and grow to any desired scale for expanded coverage (many nodes, geographic locations, and billions of events)
• Delivers problem relevant information by tracking the individual events resulting in a composite event