BEA WebLogic® Event Server

BEA WebLogic Event Server is the first and only Java application server for high-performance applications based on event driven architecture (EDA). With a built-in complex event processing (CEP) engine, WebLogic Event Server is able to process complex, streaming events. Event driven application have one or more of the following characteristics:

• Some or all application inputs are "events" – meaningful state changes that are unpredictable and that potentially trigger other activities.
• Large volumes of streaming events.
• Need to discern complex event patterns or correlations across different event sources.
• Need to discern complex event patterns or correlations across time.
• Need to respond in real time.
• Highly predictable response times.
• Must be developed in a standard Java environment to decrease total cost of adoption/ownership and increase portability and modularity.

Pain/Need

• Increasing data proliferation in the enterprise
• Enterprises' inability to productively use data and insights
• Increased unpredictability of business drivers
• Customers becoming increasingly demanding
• Competitive pressure to be increasingly agile and proactive
• Increasing move to Java-based infrastructure.

Use Cases

• Financial services: Ability to capitalize on arbitrage opportunities that exist in millisecond or microsecond windows.
• Transportation: Ability to detect baggage location for passengers in case of flight discrepancies due to local or destination-city weather, ground crew operations, airport security, etc.
• Military: Ability to detect dispersed geographical enemy information, abstract it, and decipher high probability of enemy attack.
• Telecommunications: Monitoring provisioning events to ensure that all events that are supposed to happen as part of provisioning/activation actually occur
• Insurance: Ability to detect calamities in various locales and adjust issuance of policies accordingly, in real time.
• IT systems: Ability to detect events from various systems and decipher downstream systems failure affecting many users.
• Supply chain and logistics: Ability to offer one-day-delivery guarantee from order date (new service) and garner higher revenues.

Business Benefits

• Ability to introduce new types of services and service level agreements (SLAs) leading to higher revenues
• Better customer satisfaction and retention driving higher revenues
• More agile and proactive operations making the enterprise more competitive and lowering operational costs
• Rapid development and tremendous time-to-market advantage leading to First – mover advantage