While traditional architectures can respond to events after they have happened, Apama's event-driven architecture responds in real time to fast moving events of any kind. Apama applications leverage a platform that combines analytic sophistication, flexibility, performance and interoperability. In addition to being an event processing engine, Apama provides sophisticated development tools, a flexible testing environment, an extensible integration framework and graphically-rich dashboards. This makes Apama a comprehensive event processing platform for building real-time, event-driven applications.

The following topics describe the main Apama components:

For information about the Integration Adapter Framework, see How Apama integrates with external data sources.