TY - BOOK AU - Chandy, Mani K. AU - Schulte, W. Roy TI - Event processing: designing IT systems for agile companies SN - 9780071633505 AV - TK 5105.5828 .C43 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - McGraw Hill, KW - SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (COMPUTER SCIENCE) KW - EVENT PROCESSING (COMPUTER SCIENCE) KW - DISCRETE KW - TIME SYSTEMS KW - BUSINESS - DATA PROCESSING KW - BUSINESS ENTERPRISES - COMPUTER NETWROKS N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Event processing overview -- Chapter 2. Event-processing patterns in business -- Chapter 3. Using event processing in business applications -- Chapter 4. Costs and benefits of event-processing applications -- Chapter 5. Types of event-processing applications -- Chapter 6. Event-processing architecture -- Chapter 7. Events and complex events -- Chapter 8. From architecture to application -- Chapter 9. The role of event processing in SOA and application development -- Chapter 10. Positioning event processing in the IT world -- Chapter 11. Best practices -- Chapter 12. The future of event processing -- Appendix A. Books and other resources -- Appendix B. Glossary -- Index N2 - "Business people and IT professionals understand well the benefits of corporate agility and fast response to emerging threats and opportunities. However, many people are less familiar with the techniques now available to help accomplish those aspirations. Event processing has emerged as the key enabler for situation awareness and a set of guiding principles for systems that can adapt quickly to shifts in company and market conditions. Written by experts in the field, this prescriptive guide explains how to use event processing in the design of business processes and the systems that support them." ER -