Apama is a
complex event processing (CEP) and
event stream processing (ESP) engine, developed by
Software AG
Software GmbH, trading as Software AG, is a German multinational software corporation that develops enterprise software for business process management, integration, and big data analytics. Founded in 1969, the company is headquartered in Darmstad ...
. Apama serves as a platform for performing streaming analytics over a range of high volume/low latency inputs and applications, such as
IoT devices, financial exchanges, fraud detection, social media and similar.
History
Apama Ltd. was founded in 1999 by
Dr John Bates, Dr Giles Nelson and Dr Mohamad Afshar, who met while undertaking research at the
Cambridge University Department of Computer Science and Technology. It was acquired by
Progress Software
Progress Software Corporation is an American public company that produces software for creating and deploying business applications. Founded in Burlington, Massachusetts with offices in 16 countries, the company posted revenues of $531.3 mill ...
for $25 million in 2005. In 2013,
Software AG
Software GmbH, trading as Software AG, is a German multinational software corporation that develops enterprise software for business process management, integration, and big data analytics. Founded in 1969, the company is headquartered in Darmstad ...
acquired it from Progress for an undisclosed amount.
See also
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Complex event processing (CEP) - A related technology for building and managing event-driven information systems.
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Data Stream Management System (DSMS) - A type of software system for managing and querying data streams
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Event correlation
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Event-driven architecture
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a software architecture paradigm concerning the production and detection of Event (computing), events. Event-driven architectures are Continuous design, evolutionary in nature and provide a high degree of fault to ...
— (EDA) is a software architecture pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events.
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Event stream processing — (ESP) is a related technology that focuses on processing streams of related data.
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Operational intelligence — Both CEP and ESP are technologies that underpin operational intelligence.
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Pattern matching
In computer science, pattern matching is the act of checking a given sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of some pattern. In contrast to pattern recognition, the match usually must be exact: "either it will or will not be a ...
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Real-time business intelligence — Business Intelligence is the application of knowledge derived from CEP system
References
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Events (computing)