Achieving complex event processing with Active Correlation Technology

Rule your domains with rules to trigger automated processes
by Ana Biazetti (abiazett@us.ibm.com), Event Management and Correlation Architecture, IBM, Kim Gajda (kgajda@us.ibm.com), Chief Programmer, IBM.
Abstract Active Correlation Technology (ACT) rules can turn low-level events into high-level (complex) events to help the gleaning of business opportunities, or to better understand problems. It can also free up personnel by using ACT’s complex event-processing to trigger automated processes.

Today’s diverse interconnected e-business components typically come with a lot of event information generated by touchpoints through log files or event emitters. Correlating event information to derive symptoms, or higher level business conclusions, is fundamental to identifying critical situations that need to be corrected. This article describes the IBM Active Correlation Technology (ACT), which provides built-in patterns that support event correlation and complex event processing. more