© 2009 IBM Corporation IBM TXSeries Business Events for Advanced Analytics Madhu B Ananthapadmanabh – Development Lead, IBM TXSeries for Multiplatforms 25-Jun-2010

© 2009 IBM Corporation Agenda  What are business events?  Event processing in a nut-shell.  Business value and driver for events  Event processing scenarios  Insurance  Banking  Retail  Manufacturing  Healthcare  Introduction to Websphere Business Events (WBE)  Event processing capabilities in TXSeries  Overview of TXSeries events SDK for WBE support-pack  Contents of the SupportPac  Prerequisites  Usage 2

© 2009 IBM Corporation What are Business Events An event is  Something that happens (or doesn’t happen) A business event is  Something that happens (or doesn’t happen) that is relevant to the business 3

© 2009 IBM Corporation Event processing in a nut shell Event ProducerEvent ProcessorEvent Consumer 4

© 2009 IBM Corporation Business value and drivers for events  The business value of event processing is  Decreased latency in Obtaining business insights Making decisions based on those insights Executing the decisions  Factors driving business events  Compliance with regulations  Demand for cost reduction, leading to more automation  Technology developments such as RFID  Desire for greater awareness of business behavior through Business Activity  Management, Business Performance Management 5

© 2009 IBM Corporation Event processing scenarios (Insurance) 6

© 2009 IBM Corporation Event processing scenarios (Banking) 7

© 2009 IBM Corporation Event processing scenarios (Retail) 8

© 2009 IBM Corporation Event processing scenarios (Manufacturing) 9

© 2009 IBM Corporation Event processing scenarios (Healthcare) Lab tests Doctor orders some lab tests When the tests have completed Page doctor immediately about any abnormal conditions Potentially, look for patterns of results from different tests which indicate specific conditions Hospital bed allocation Events triggered around patient arrival and discharge, to request making up of beds by housekeeping and allocation of beds to new patients 10

© 2009 IBM Corporation Introduction to Websphere Business events (WBE) Correlation of business events from any source, over any time frame 11

© 2009 IBM Corporation Introduction to WBE Cont… 12

© 2009 IBM Corporation Event processing capabilities in TXSeries  TXSeries will emit simple, single events  Events emitted by TXSeries could be sent to a “complex event processing” engine: WebSphere Business Events – enabled by TXSeries Events SDK for WBE SupportPac  These events can be an input to a monitor or business manager’s dashboard – via WBE  They can also drive other TXSeries transactions, etc. 13

© 2009 IBM Corporation Overview of TXSeries events SDK for WBE support-pack 14

© 2009 IBM Corporation What this SupportPac contains  SupportPac program  Pre-compiled TXSeries application  Samples C and COBOL language  Documentation  Contains installation, configuration and problem determination information  Configuration scripts  Used to configure the SupportPac for a particular region  Installs resource definitions

© 2009 IBM Corporation Prerequisites for the support pack  IBM TXSeries for Multiplatforms, V  WebSphere Business Events V7  WebSphere MQ C clients Version 6.0 and above  Required for JMS transport only 16

© 2009 IBM Corporation Using the support pack  Identify the location in code where the event occurs  Create a Channel with containers to provide  Name of the event  Configuration information for how the event is to be emitted  Sets of name value containers to provide  NAME of a data item to be included in the event payload  Value of the DATA item to be included in the event payload  Send the channel over an EXEC CICS LINK statement to the supportPac Program 17

© 2009 IBM Corporation Reference  TXSeries Events SDK for WBE SupportPac   TXSeries Info center  cs.tx.doc/index.htm cs.tx.doc/index.htm  WBE info center  18

© 2009 IBM Corporation IBM Software Group © 2009 IBM Corporation SOA on your terms and our expertise Thank you for joining me, please feel free to contact me personally for more information Madhu B.A TXSeries Development leader IBM India Software Laboratories, India