Event-based Middleware and Solutions

Overview

IBM Active Middleware Technology™ is a lightweight and agile complex event processing (CEP) engine. It aims to ease the cost of changing business logic, automating and monitoring business processes, and enabling an on demand business environment. Our unique CEP capabilities were recognized by Gartner as an emerging market in which "enterprises will achieve new levels of flexibility and a deeper understanding of their business processes by applying the techniques of complex event processing to their daily work".

IBM Active Middleware Technology™ is capable of detecting complex situations (a context-sensitive composition of messages and events), rather than single events. The functionality is applicable when processing a composition of event sources from a business, application, or infrastructure perspective within different contexts. Sample scenarios relating to SLA alerts and compliance checking are applicable to retail and banking. IBM Active Middleware Technology™ uses Websphere brokering technology, implemented through processing nodes. With the use of IBM Active Middleware Technology™, the nodes monitor the message flow, enabling the detection of, and reaction to, situations that may be defined over multiple messages.

IBM Active Middleware Technology™ lets you configure the middleware in terms of business needs, thus triggering more sophisticated conclusions and enhancing automation and efficiency. IBM Active Middleware Technology™ can be configured to monitor situations relating to specific rules/events. For example, you can pre-set and automatically correct parameters for breaches of Service Level Agreements.

The added capacities of IBM Active Middleware Technology™ enhance the ability to develop advanced solutions for the financial market, banking, and insurance sectors.