The Power of Now
Contents | Chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |

Conclusion

  • The Age of the Knowledge Worker
  • How Becoming Event-Driven Can Spur Your Company's Productivity
  • The New Meaning of Life/Workspace
  • The Event-Driven Future

Excerpts

When I first sketch the benefits of the event-driven infrastructure to new business acquaintances, many indeed think the concept is a fantasy. Their experience is that tying just two applications, two databases, or two corporate subsidiaries together is challenging enough. To them it seems like a distant and impossibly complex dream to link an enterprise's entire flow of information, from any number of sources, in a manner that gathers, integrates, and upgrades internally and externally generated information and delivers it to the people who need it, all in real time.

       
But it is not a future dream. It can be done today. It must be done soon: The need for globally integrated, real-time information-delivery systems is already clearly apparent as I write this (in the summer of 1999) and will only become more so as the networked world spins ever closer to reality.

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