IBM announced <A HREF="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23821.wss">new additions to its business events processing software portfolio,</A> which allows business professionals to directly identify and analyze cause-and-effect relationships among events in real time to make proactive business decisions. Additionally, IBM announced a new Business Process Management (BPM) suite.

The new flagship software product, IBM WebSphere Business Events, is built on technology acquired from AptSoft in January 2008 and is designed to establish connections between events and identify possible opportunities and threats by automatically initiating a trigger when trends emerge.