In the same way as we discussed "Getting ahead of the Curve" in relation to Big Data, Oracle Event Processing solutions invariably entail some form of Predictive Event Analysis requirements to anticipate and prepare for longer term situations as a business's solutions become more advanced and they want to "Look around the Corner".
In many cases, Oracle Event Processing facilitates various methods for Predictive Analysis, for example, the identification of a single event, or collection of events in a pattern can indicate with much certainty, that a future event or set of events will also occur. This can be achieved using the standard integral features already available in the technology. However the ability to leverage longer term data, collected over a period of weeks, months, or years and then using a "model" from this data to score against current streaming event data is sometimes also needed. This is a more "fuzzy" prediction and the...