From ensuring that physical goods are shipped to the right retail location to monitoring and responding to patient health data, being able to respond to critical events in real-time is a business must-have. The ability to do this is now possible, and even being accelerated, through event-driven systems. In a nutshell, with applications like IoT sensors and GPS tracking, companies can now sense, analyze, and act on an event in the moment it occurs. As a result, they can improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability.
As Vantiq’s Chief Technology Officer Paul Butterworth shares in our whitepaper Event-Driven Systems, the digital enterprise is modeled on events taking place across an enterprise’s physical and digital environments and actions taken in response to those events. As such, event-driven systems are the most effective approach to supporting the real-time, digital enterprise.
3 key characteristics of an event-driven system include:
- The ability to directly model the events that define the real-time, digital enterprise
- The means to respond directly to business events similar to the way the digital enterprise naturally operates
- System components are loosely coupled for easier integration across systems and allow the system to evolve as new requirements come in
Based on these three characteristics, Vantiq has successfully developed event-driven applications for a wide range of industries and use cases, including smart logistics and tracking, healthcare monitoring and response, and smart building security and access control.
As shared in the whitepaper, by committing to event-driven modeling, application construction, and integration, companies can reach their digitization goals by enabling business and technical units to collaborate and define the required systems, effectively build applications, and integrate tactical solutions enterprise-wide.
Want to learn how your organization can build on each of the three characteristics of an event-driven system? Download our whitepaper: Event-Driven Systems.
