Event-Driven Architecture Maturity Assessment
You show strong execution and clear strategic thinking, now it’s time to lead your category
At this maturity stage, it's common for IT architects, developers and data scientists to describe their organization’s approach to event-driven architectures as:
Description
In this stage, more and more departments are accessing APIs and event streams. This is why leading companies have built a central event authority team that provides support for development and is overseeing the governance of EDA systems.
They also promote best practices around EDA across the organization and work with the business on the definition of future use cases. Sometimes, this team may also be part of larger strategic integration governance organization.
Recommended Action
At this point you need to make sure to give all the support to let your company and the event architecture scale. All of the efforts should be coordinated across the organization and with other teams in the IT department that are in charge of governance, for example the architecture or data science team.
Description
Now it’s a good time to optimize your activities on an organizational and technical level.
Recommended Action
Make sure that you use your EDA to it’s fullest potential and see if you can combine the operations of different teams that are working on that topic, such as integration, architecture or data science.
In regards of the tooling you should keep an eye on platforms that support advanced technical requirements and possibly low-code tools to improve productivity. The best thing: This way you also enable non-experts to work on event-driven use cases.
Description
With a well established streaming first architecture you can tackle more complex projects, for example like pro-active customer engagement that should improve the customer satisfaction or innovative IIoT initiatives.
Recommended Action
Check if you can leverage other sources of information and data. It might be worth to join commercial API or event marketplaces and you can also work on collaborated EDA activities with partners.