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What is IBM Event Automation?

IBM Event Automation enables businesses to accelerate their event-driven efforts. The event streams, event endpoint management and event processing capabilities help lay the foundation of an event-driven architecture for unlocking the value of events.

Categories & Use Cases

Review IBM Event Streams

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization is based on ethics and integrity, with management guided by our values and a rigorous system of corporate governance in how we conduct business and manage risk.IBM Event Streams help our organization using Apache ecosystem products and being an open source we can customize the platform as per the need of the customer and as and when the requirement changes. payment processing, fraud detection, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and IoT analytics all rely on immediate action on data. All of these use cases deal with data points in a continuous stream, each associated with a specific point in time.

Pros

  • IBM Event Streams reduce costs
  • enhance service quality,
  • Reduce the time that it takes to deliver your services to your customers.

Cons

  • Need expertise resources to use this efficiently
  • there is no such product knowledge articles in place that we can refer to in case of issues.

Return on Investment

  • In using downstreams, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, makes us feel that there's no upgrades and other than that there's poor marketing of the product.
  • The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing.
  • Lack of visibility into topic depth , Monitoring capabilities

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products

Other Software Used

Amazon API Gateway, Confluent Platform, StreamSets DataOps Platform

IBM Event Streams Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps us pull reports across the finance and procurement organization. This way we are able to quickly access information without waiting on another person to provide.

Pros

  • Timely reporting
  • Accurate
  • Easy to use

Cons

  • better descriptions
  • more options
  • more user friendly

Return on Investment

  • Improved data reporting
  • easier deployment strategies
  • integration

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cognos Analytics

Other Software Used

IBM Cognos Analytics, Deltek Costpoint

Smooth and easy onboarding

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Event Stream solved our real-time data streaming issues. Previously, there was a lot of lag in both the website and mobile app while fetching from backend, now that lag is removed and we have happy customers.

Pros

  • It can be easily integrated also its based on kafka so everyone is on the same pace if we talk about using the programs
  • handling massive traffic on day to day basis seamlessly

Cons

  • In using downstreams
  • Very limited capabilities out of the box
  • The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing

Return on Investment

  • there's more reachability among the people who uses it and the better built interface is a very positive side among other competitors
  • it's very easy to manage and plan different events
  • open source

Make your organization more agile by using IBM Event Streams !

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company is currently in the process of implementing a messaging system - we develop event driven Microservices and needed an event streaming system based on Kafka which can address our needs. I reviewed IBM Event Streams and it is a great option. Event streams allows us to permanently store changes to domain objects in the form of events - the changes are then made available to various other services where they are materialized into certain solutions like Analytics, AI etc.

Pros

  • IBM Event Streams offers a Lite tier which makes it incredible easy to get started.
  • IBM Event Streams allows you to permanents persist / log events.
  • Other back-end services can subscribe to events the want to consume.

Cons

  • It will be great if the KSQL setup or some other type of stream manipulation technology comes bundled with IBM Event Streams.
  • Currently we service the African region as well and we would love a region in South Africa.

Return on Investment

  • IBM Event Stream is surprisingly easy to get started with by providing a free Lite tier. This makes it easy to adopt.
  • At this point we are in the development phase so it's too early to speculate on long term costs but IBM Event Streams certainly has an excellent offering with great cost analysis tools which we will make use of as things progress.

Usability

Worth the spend

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Critical within our sales process and tracking ROI for marketing advertisement campaigns. We use it to ensure our data is accurate and that the right employees can access the correct level of data to effectively do their job.

Pros

  • Analytics
  • Reporting
  • Onboarding

Cons

  • Intuitive
  • Documentation

Return on Investment

  • Positive- automated work flows
  • Positive- implement standardized best practices across organization

Alternatives Considered

Zapier and Fivetran

Other Software Used

Google Analytics, Salesforce CMS