![Pushing event analytics to the edge White paper cover for Understanding Data Streams in IoT](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2015/05/Understanding-Data-Streams-in-IoT-e1432814889596.png)
In my last post, we examined the growing importance of event stream processing to predictive and prescriptive analytics. In the example we discussed, we looked at how all the event streams from point-of-sale systems from multiple retail locations are absorbed at a centralized point for analysis. Yet the beneficiaries of those