The buzz around event-driven architecture has been increasing in both practitioner and vendor circles. Unlike many emerging technologies that are hailed as all encompassing replacement strategies, event-driven architecture is most often viewed as a complement to today's most popular enterprise strategies - service-oriented architecture and business process management. To get the practitioner's point of view on event-driven architecture
adoption and the state of the event processing market, ebizQ conducted
an online survey during July and August 2007. This paper shares the
results of the Event Processing Survey, along with ebizQ's observations
on this emerging technology strategy.