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.
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?
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
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