(1) An occurrence of significance to a task or system. Events can include completion or failure of an operation, a user action, or the change in state of a process. See also indicator collection, resource model, journal receiver, receiver.
(2) A change to an application entity that triggers a business object. This business object, which contains data and a verb, becomes an event in the WebSphere business integration system. See also application event.
(3) In the Notes Calendar, an entry with a duration of at least one day. For example, an all-day meeting or a vacation is an event.
(4) A transition in database activity caused by users, applications, or the database manager. Events include connections, deadlocks, and transactions.
(5) A change to data in an enterprise information system (EIS) that results in an update to the event store. The adapter processes event store information to deliver business objects from the EIS to the endpoints that subscribe to those business objects.