At our latest Fast-track session the question was raised what EDA (even driven architecture) is and what it is used for. Luckily there is some documentation. Basically EDA is a set-up/methodology of how SAG sees you working with events on their platform. For that it provides several products with different functionalities. An overview:
| EDA Component | SAG Component | Description |
| Event Bus | Universal Messaging (or Broker) | |
| Service Bus | SAG NERVIntegration Server | Event routing and transformationDeprecated as of 9.8Has built-in servicesCan do tranformations |
| Event type repository | Event Type StoreCentrasite | Run-timeXML-schemasDesign-time/governance |
| Event Type development tool | Designer | |
| CEP-Engine | Apama Correlator | |
| CEP development tool | Apama Studio | |
| Dashboarding | Presto MashZone | |
| Business Rules tool | webMethods Business Rules | |
| Monitoring events (patterns) | webMethods Optimize Analytic Engine | |
| Monitoring traffic | Event Bus Console | Text-based |
| Sample event publishing tool | Event Generator |
Author: Stefan De Wandeleir