Event processing is all about running your company smarter and faster. It does this primarily through situational awareness and traceability. The former means continuous updates of all relevant processes, enabling managers to gain a complete overview of the business and instantly respond to problems and opportunities. The latter means the ability to track the status of items – customer orders, physical batch completion progress, supplier orders en route and so on – throughout the respective life cycles.

There are few different flavors of event processing: Simple event processing, complex-event processing and event stream processing. As the names imply, the former refers to individual events, while the latter two look at multiple events to “connect the dots” on a higher level. One popular method for managing more practical value chains is Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), while others are better suited for management support and decision making. Learn more about these technologies in this guide and on our Event Processing topic page.

• Types of Event Processing
• EDA
• Trends and Commentary
• Related Technologies
• Blogs and Resources

Types of Event Processing

On simple events and simple event processing (Event Processing Thinking)
Does "simple event processing" refer to processing of simple events, or simple processing in events? There's a key difference to note here, and blogger Opher Etzion sets the record straight on what's what.