Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook

CHAPTER 19From Live Data to Real-time Insight and Action Using Complex Event Processing and Business Activity Monitoring

What good is data if you cannot extract information from it? And only when you can turn the information into meaningful conclusions and relevant actions will it be truly useful and understood. Our objective with IT in general is to better run our business—more cost effective, with higher quality, and faster throughput. SOA aims to help with that and explicitly add the ability to quickly adapt to changing requirements, which we have dubbed business agility. Data about the business processes and the components that constitute and execute these processes is needed, not only to measure whether we meet our objectives, but also to ...