WebSphere Business Events

IBM WebSphere Business Events is a software system designed specifically for managing the business events flowing across systems and people with the goal of providing timely insight and response. Business events are discovered and described in business terms to meet business objectives based on high-level management goals. IBM WebSphere Business Events allows business users to detect, evaluate, and respond effectively to the impact of business events.

Key features:

• Enables straightforward expression of business event interaction logic

• Understands business language and vernacular

• Senses business events and patterns and initiates the appropriate business actions

• Includes codeless, graphical authoring tools

• Delivers simple and integrated visualization dashboard support

• Connects to existing islands of event information

• Supports both simple and complex business event pattern correlations

• Delivers an integrated development and execution system

• Installs as plug and play to extend your existing environments

• Operates with high performance, scalability, and high availability (HA)

• Enhances existing Business Process Management (BPM), connectivity products, and service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructures

For V7.0, WebSphere Business Events:

• Enhances the business user experience and tooling
  • Extends the business-focused design tools to the Web 2.0 mashup environment within role-based business spaces

• Expands the test capability for both IT and the business user to validate business logic
  • Enables analysis of business logic before applying changes
  • Delivers event capture and replay capability
  • Offers a new test environment geared to the business user

• Enhanced performance and reliability
  • Provides increased throughput and decreased memory footprint

• Extends reach and visibility, enabling more insightful, timely action
  • Leverages IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules for key operational decisions
  • Hosted trial available in IBM SOA Sandbox
  • Introduced as a key component in the Energy and Utilities Industry Framework
  • Interoperates with IMS to leverage existing IMS assets for event processing applications

• Extends the Design components for interaction outside the tooling
  • Surfaces programmatic interfaces to the Business User Design components to construct business logic outside the tooling
  • Provides interfaces to tune business logic in a running WebSphere Business system

• Provides additional platform and standards coverage
  • WebSphere Application Server V7.0
  • Government standards support - IPv6, Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC), and Federal
  • Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance