Collecting internal and external event data is a crucial step toward ensuring your business systems are running at full speed. It's just the first move, though, according to Gartner analyst W. Roy Schulte.

Analyzing this influx of information is the next step in the process.

Proper analytics tools are a pivotal part of complex event processing (CEP) technologies, which can help overcome devastating changes, such as losing major customers and supply chain disruptions amongst others. CEP technologies not only monitor and analyze these changes, but help respond to these threatening events quicker than ever before.

This expert e-guide, including the final two chapters of a special three-part report featuring the insight of Schulte, discusses how the right approach to event processing can make your business systems swifter and smarter. Read this now as ebizQ editor Anne Stuart speaks with Schulte, who offers up advice on approaches to analyzing event data and tips for using it.