What's really happening with event-driven architecture (EDA)? To get the practitioner's point of view on EDA adoption, ebizQ recently surveyed approximately 450 IT professionals and learned 90% of them planned to put event-driven applications in production within two years. The majority confirmed that they think about EDA not as an all-encompassing replacement, but as an addition to existing architectural paradigms such as SOA and IT project domains including BPM and BAM.

Why are so many organizations turning to SOA, EDA, and XTP? Are these solutions separate from each other or intertwined? Listen to this podcast for insight from Gartner analyst Roy Schulte, a leading expert on SOA, and Ruma Sanyal of BEA.

Location-based information systems generate continuous streams of data—for example, the current position of each truck in a logistics company fleet. This article describes a location-based use case and how it can be implemented with BEA WebLogic Event Server and Web 2.0 techniques.

This screencast shows how to monitor EDA-based, event processing network applications that have been published (deployed) to the BEA WebLogic Event Server. It includes a demonstration of how to investigate applications and their associated EPN node activity using a new visual monitoring dashboard. This new dashboard is part of a new technology preview feature bundle for the BEA WebLogic Event Server.

Complimentary tools from Forrester Consulting can help you identify and prevent downtime costs. This white paper and cost of application reliability model help you calculate how much reliability costs—and explains the research behind their calculations.

Can't afford downtime? BEA Guardian is a ground-breaking non-invasive smart service that actually pre-empts possible system outages by finding potential problems or incompatibilities and letting you correct them before they ever have a chance to manifest. The resulting cost savings can be significant—check them out using BEA's Downtime Cost Savings Calculator.

This series, featuring the videos "Pre-Emptive Support", "Capacity", "Predictable Java" and "Zero Downtime", offers a tongue-in-cheek look at the unique differentiators of the BEA WebLogic family.

We have just released a technical preview of BEA WebLogic Server 10.3. This release focuses on three enhancement areas: lightweight BEA WebLogic Server, programming model and API support, and technology integration and standards.

BEA Education Services is offering a series of SOA podcasts, distilled from online self-study courses, on topics such as SOA organization and governance, SOA costs and benefits, and Service-oriented development of applications.

Looking to understand Virtualization, or to learn how BEA WebLogic Server Virtual Edition can turbo-charge your Virtualization strategy? BEA is offering two courses for you to learn more about Virtualization, including how to successfully configure and manage it using BEA.

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