For Application Development & Program Management Professionals (Length: 7 pages)

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Forrester has long considered event-driven processing to be an integral part of service-oriented architecture (SOA), but some industry players are just recently catching up. They are combining event-driven architecture (EDA) and SOA and calling it SOA 2.0. But IT shops are doing much more than SOA, so Forrester's Digital Business Architecture provides a broad vision around SOA to encompass firms' varied user-interaction channels, unified communications, information architecture, and virtualized IT infrastructure. And event-driven processing is an integral part of this broader view, too.