These two problems are really part of the same problem: how to automate your business. Your business consists of events, tasks, and processes. When automating your processes with software, business events often trigger business processes. Business processes often generate business events.
SOA is now widely recognized as a solution to the first problem and an approach that delivers new functionality faster with greater productivity and greater flexibility to accommodate changes. EDA has been around for a while but is not widely known. It’s now becoming more widely used to solve the second problem of detecting and reacting to events.
