IBM Event Automation

Event-driven architecture for speed and agility at scale

IBM Event Automation is a fully composable event-driven solution designed to put business events to work by enabling users to detect situations, act in real-time, automate decisions, and maximize revenue potential.

Turn events into actionable insights

Respond in real-time using Apache Flink, leveraging AI to anticipate critical business patterns.

Event-Driven App Development

Build scalable applications to meet evolving business needs and handle increasing workloads seamlessly.

Composable Kafka Architecture

Enable self-service access with approval controls, field redaction, and schema filtering, enforced by Kafka-native event gateway via policy administration.

Unify & Accelerate Event Management

Use policy administration for self-service access, enabling control definitions for approval processes, field-level redaction, and schema-based filtering.

Use cases

Transaction data analysis

Gain a real-time view of transactional data flowing across your business. Combine historical analyses with live spending patterns to develop more detailed profiles and quickly spot potential threats and new customer opportunities.

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Inventory optimization

Monitor changes in stock levels across business channels in real-time to automatically trigger the optimal quantity of shipments based on which high-profit or best-sellers are running low.

Detect suspicious activity

Evaluate real-time usage and activity patterns within the context of historic trends to quickly detect new anomalies and issue alerts of suspicious trends as soon as they arise.

Customer 360

Deepen the understanding of your customers’ behavior, bringing together both in-shop and online activity to generate informed, real-time offers designed to increase spend or prevent churn.

Predictive maintenance

Draw insights from real-time equipment and product data to detect risk factors and quality issues in real-time, enabling you to anticipate and address potential malfunction or breakdown.

Adapt to dynamic pricing

Detect real-time fluctuations in the price of key materials that impact your business’s bottom line. Keep costs low by quickly renegotiating to the best available price and maximize your potential revenue.

Unify and streamline integration with events

Manage and govern your events and build rich integrations within a unified hybrid experience. Learn more about IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration.

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Real stories. Real impact.

"In some cases, an event-based architecture would be faster and wouldn’t put as much load on the infrastructure. It could also drive innovation, providing data to developers for creating new products and services. ”

Tormod Kvalheim
Head of Applications
Norsk Tipping AS

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“IBM Event Automation enhanced the data accessibility and processing capabilities, enabling business and technology to efficiently collect and process large amounts of data and harness data driven insights in real time. This data flow enhancement empowered us with customer-centric insights that avail customer personalization and enrich our overall customer experience.”

Reham Al-Ghamdi
Vice President, Head of Technology Delivery, API Management Unit
Riyad Bank

"Event Endpoint Management in IBM Event Automation allows us easy centralized management of Kafka subscriptions. Another great value is that we have a controlled , secure way to let our power users access the schema registry and browse topics which they are authorised for."

Alan Tomanek
Tax Administration System Architect
APIS IT

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Footnotes

https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/report/extending-digital-acceleration