Event System

Many organizations use SAS analytics for modeling, simulation, statistics, and business intelligence. Compared to providing these capabilities on an ad hoc basis to individual analysts, there is a different set of challenges to delivering these results on a routine basis throughout an enterprise - a production system. ThotWave's event management solutions are designed to support production analytics via the capture and disposition of both technical and business events.

Technical events are the errors, warnings, and tracing information that allow support staff to keep production systems running smoothly. The SAS System detects many technical events and records them in log files. However, without an archive strategy for these log files and constant attention to their content, problems may well go unnoticed until the user community starts to have difficulties. ThotWave's Event System captures these conditions as they occur, records them, and provides proactive notifications on a subscription basis. In addition, ThotWave provides a powerful assertion-based API for defining custom events that have more context than standard error messages.

Business events are meaningful conditions in a stream of operational data. SAS has tremendous capability for reaching data wherever it resides and applying analytical techniques to recognize events in need of action. When combined with the ThotWave's thinking data^® Event System, it's possible to manage these events, creating powerful Business Activity Monitoring solutions.

Often there is no clear distinction between technical and business events. Inconsistencies in data prepped for loading a data warehouse will require both technical and business users to correct the problem. The thinking data^® Event System provides an integrated architecture for handling both perspectives.

Applications

• Delivers proactive notification of errors and warnings detected by SAS-conditions that frequently sit unnoticedin a log file
• Monitors progress of long-running, multi-step SAS jobs in real time
• Creates an audit trail of SAS jobs that are run and their results
• Enables instrumentation of SAS applications with self-monitoring checks so that problems are detected before critical failures occur
• Alerts support staff to status of complex data warehouse load processes: Source system connectivity issues,dataintegrity problems, warehouse load complete
• Filters trading activity for price spikes and limit violations
• Watches healthcare symptom data for evidence of outbreaks or bio-terrorism
• Checks for indications of fraud in consumer credit, insurance, health care, or telecommunications transactions
• Monitors business processes for out of tolerance results, service level violations, and regulatory compliance
• Pushes the results of SAS analytics to specific users who need them

Features

• Captures SAS errors and warnings with no modification to existing SAS code
• Event API for SAS allows definition of custom events for system management, audit trails, business activitymonitoring, automated unit testing, and more; Event API also adds module call stack information to events
• Supports attaching files and data sets to events
• Stores events and attachments in a centralized repository for review and analysis
• Delivers event notifications in real time according to rule-based subscriptions
• Secure, web-based Event Console provides an Event Browser for review of events and a Subscription Manager for controlling real-time notifications
• Supplies administrative functions for security and event data management
• Archives SAS log files and listings
• Integrates with job scheduling software
• Event adapter API allows dispatching events to other systems (e.g., network management systems, ticket systems,any interested enterprise application)

System Requirements

Our thinking data^® Event System is based on cross-platform technologies - the SAS System and Java. ThotWave uses a modular architecture that scales from simple SAS production monitoring to complex business activity monitoring with custom integration. Contact ThotWave for more information about how this product can meet your event management needs.