Events

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  • Events are occurrences that trigger changes in the state of business objects and/or trigger communications between actors.
  • Events relevant to HR collaborations can be broadly categorized as: 1. personal (for example, a employee change of address, marriage, divorce, disability, etc.);
  • 2. employment and work-related (hire, termination, promotion, etc.); and 3. organizational (merger, acquisition; plant closing; bankruptcy; policy changes; vendor changes; etc.). Events also can be fine-grain, process-specific occurrences (for example, successful completion of employment screening may clear the way for a next step or stage of a hiring process).
  • There can be relationships and priorities among different events. One event may trigger another. Likewise, the occurrence of a certain event may supersede another as a trigger for a collaboration.
  • An "event driven architecture" is a style of application and system architecture characterized by a set of relatively independent actors working towards coordinated goals by communicating and responding in predictable ways on the basis of event triggers.
  • A business event ontology is a reasonably complete collection of business events definitions that represent the points within business processes where collaborations between actors occur.