What Are
Real-Time Applications?

Real-Time Applications are applications that operate within an immediate time frame; sensing, analyzing, and acting on streaming data as it happens. This is in contrast to a database-centric application where information is ingested and stored in a database (in the cloud or on-premise) for future analysis.

Most real-time applications rely on an event-driven architecture (EDA) to allow for asynchronous processing of streaming data. These applications are vital in industries where operating within a specific time constraint can mean life or death; such as identifying and repairing a gas leak at an oil refinery or locating a lost child at a public park.

Real-Time Applications

Definition Features + Benefits Education Insights In Action

As the speed required for modern enterprises to remain competitive (let alone get ahead) steadily increases, the typical database-centric approach falls short when it comes to agility, scalability, and reliability. In order to keep pace, a new breed of enterprise-grade applications is required.

Leading enterprises in practically all industries are switching from processing and acting on data after the fact to taking action on data in flight, as it happens through real-time applications.

What are the Features and Benefits of
Real-Time Applications?

Increased Situational Awareness

Quickly and easily understand what is going on in and around your business at any given moment.

Naturally Leverage IoT Devices & Sensors

IoT needs real-time applications in order to efficiently process large amounts of streaming data and take immediate action.

Better Decision Making Capabilities

Put more information directly at your fingertips through the use of smart dashboards, real-time notifications, digital twins, human-machine collaboration, and more.

Greater Operational Responsiveness

Respond to mission-critical events as they happen instead of after the fact through real-time analysis and response to streaming data.

High Scalability

Process data close to the source to scale without limits, and massively decrease bandwidth utilization.

Low Latency Edge Processing

Real-time applications enable very low latency data ingestion and analysis to fully leverage the benefits of edge computing.

"The solution is to use real-time data integration to provide connected, contextual and continuous intelligence across the entire organization and its ecosystem."

W. Roy Schulte, Gartner - Improve Critical Business Outcomes With Real-Time Data-Driven Insights

Real-Time Application Education

Humans and Machines in Effective
Real-Time Collaborative Systems

Learn how real-time applications enable your business to have the right people, making the right decisions, at the right time through powerful collaboration capabilities.

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Humans and Machines
in Effective Real-Time
Collaborative Systems

by
Marty Sprinzen, CEO & Paul Butterworth, CTO

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Real-Time Applications in Action

Case Study

67% Reduction
in Response Time

Mitsuiwa built a real-time application to efficiently select, route, and monitor service personnel.