Convergence of enterprise architectures for real-time and predictive analytics

Gone are the days when the IT infrastructure contained separate applications for operations, analytics, and administration. Today's IT infrastructure needs enterprise application suites that can deliver operations, analytics, and administration together, and can collaborate to share information (in real-time), which makes their functioning more efficient. For example, data from operations is used by analytics to detect fraudulent operations, thereby making operations more secure. Further, the future asks for more seamless interactions between these operations.

From a technical perspective, we can see these as a merger of multiple design patterns. We can see systems that efficiently merge service-oriented architecture (SOA) and event-driven architecture. For example, the LAMBDA architecture merges batching, analytics, and service provisioning.

Such convergence can lead to more effective technologies such as...