This document discusses how businesses can use an event mesh to become more event-driven and real-time. An event mesh is a distributed network of event brokers that provides connectivity and routing for critical business events across computing environments. It allows events from sources like SAP systems to be streamed in real-time to applications throughout an organization. The document provides examples of how an event mesh can be used to enable real-time capabilities for SAP applications and systems. It also describes how an event management platform can provide tools for governing, discovering, and monitoring events that flow through the event mesh.

1. Stream SAP and Other
Events Across your
Enterprise with an
Event Mesh
October, 2019

2. Business are Transforming
More
real-time
More
distributed
More
connected
More
agile

3. Gartner Says Events Turn IT into an Engine
Source: Gartner
"Event-Driven Computing for Digital Business Technology Leaders“
AADI Summit London, 20 May 2019
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4. • Something that has
happened
• The state or condition
of something changes
• Some piece of information
is created or changed
What is an
event?

5. The Smiths open
a bank account…
Event.

6. Mary activates
her phone…
Event.

7. Rita buys
a new hockey helmet…
Event.

8. Samantha scans her
boarding pass…
Event.

9. EstMychelle scans her
boarding pass …
Flight
Planning
Passenger
Trip
Management
Customer
Loyalty
EstimatedBoardingComplete

10. Time Value
of Events

11. Event-Driven
Architecture
Delivers:
• More personalized,
responsive customer
experience
• More efficient, adaptive
business processes
• Ability to more quickly adapt
to risks and opportunities
• More reliable, more scalable
systems

12. 2017
Gartner Says CIOs
Must Define an
Event-Centric Digital
Business Strategy.
Gartner "Articulating the Business Value of Event-
Driven Architecture", 26 May 2017, Anne Thomas,
Aashish Gupta
2018
“By 2022, event-sourced,
real-time situational
awareness will be a
required characteristic
for 70% of new digital
business solutions.”
Source: Gartner "Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for
2018: Event-Driven Model" 8 March 2018
2019
“By 2022, support of
event notifications in
low-code application
platforms and API
management tools will
make EDA common in
new application design.”
Source: Gartner "The 5 Steps Toward Pervasive Event-Driven
Architecture", 28 June 2019, Yefim Natis, Massimo Pezzini,
Keith Guttridge, Roy Schulte

13. A modern digital business
should be able to react to
business events in real time.
…but most are
far from it.

14. Today’s tech was
designed for…
Batch processing,
not continuous Request/reply,
not pub/sub
Static data,
not dynamic

15. Are we there yet?
Request/reply polling:
“Are we there yet?”
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vs. event-driven pub/sub:
“I’ll let you know
when we’re there.”

16. Periodic Polling / Extraction
Request/Reply, Files
Batch Processing
EDAETL, SOA,
REST
Digital transformation
requires new thinking
and new technologies
Event Capture in Real-time
Event Distribution in Real-time
Continuous Event Processing

17. You need to make
your critical events available
as they happen
wherever they are needed,

18. The solution?
An event mesh that routes events
between apps, devices and users
across computing environments
anywhere in your organization.

19. Gartner Defines the Event Mesh
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“Event mesh — provides optimization and
governance for distributed event interactions.
Event-driven computing is central to the
continuous agility of digital business. The
distributed optimized network of event brokers
facilitated by the event mesh infrastructure
aims to enable a continuous digital business
native experience.”
Source: Gartner “The Key Trends in PaaS and Platform Architecture”,
28 February 2019, Yefim Natis, Fabrizo Biscotti, Massimo Pezzini,
Paul Vincent

20. • Uniform Connectivity
• Dynamic Routing
• WAN Optimization
• High Performance
• High Availability
• Security & Governance
Distributed Event Brokers Form an Event Mesh
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Proprietary & Confidential
JMS MQ
API Gateway
Public
Clouds PaaS

21. Using an Event Mesh to become Event Driven
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Event Broker
Mainframe
Systems
of Record
Distributed
Apps
Legacy
Messaging
Liberate
Your Critical Events
Event-Driven
Microservices
IoT Devices
(robots, elevators, cars)
Mobile / Web
API Gateway
Event Broker
Modernize Your Platform
Connected Places
(stores, factories, gas stations)
Lines of
Business
Partners Customers
Event Broker
Alert &
Inform

22. Where do your
business-critical
events come from?

23. A few real world examples…
They all
revolve around
event-enabling
SAP

24. EDA Challenges for SAP
• Capture events from
on-prem SAP systems
(ECC, S/4HANA, MDG)
in real-time, at scale
• Streaming events between
SAP and non-SAP apps
across cloud and on-prem
Event Mesh

25. Event Enabling SAP Applications with Event Mesh
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• Extract events from
SAP in real-time
• Deploy event mesh and
start streaming events
• Consume events in target
apps (e.g. cloud native services)
• Event-enable other
SAP systems
• Connect SAP Cloud
Platform Enterprise
Messaging to event mesh
iPaaS
AI, ML,
Data Lake

26. • Event brokers form
an event mesh
• Cloud console for
management and
monitoring of
brokers and mesh
• Event portal enables
definition, discovery,
governance, etc.
Solace PubSub+ Event Management Platform
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Proprietary & Confidential
DatacenterLegacy
JMS MQ
PaaS
Cloud Console
Event Portal

27. • Discover events;
understand contents
and context
• Govern events
• Lifecycle management
• Visualize application
choreography
• Let external parties
discover and consume
your events
• Understand which
applications consume
each event
• Audit runtime for
exceptions
Event Portal
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28. Enabling the Evolution to Event-Driven
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More
real-time
More
distributed
More
connected
More
agile
We’ve event-enabled
more enterprises
than anyone…
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at booth 944

29. That’s Possible