Introduction

Welcome to the SPARKL® Sequencing Engine user guide!

This user guide describes the features and functionality of SPARKL, the user interface, helps you get started and also provides tutorials, examples and an API reference.

The SPARKL® Sequencing Engine is a piece of code that can be installed inside a computer or other hardware device.

It can run in your laptop, or be installed inside devices such as a Cisco® router or Intel® IoT gateway. It lets you design and execute distributed business processes such as:
  • Distributed banking ledger transactions
  • Orchestrating technical infrastructures such as networks and servers
  • Making machines on a factory floor work together
Of course, you can write good old-fashioned programs to do these things. But SPARKL delivers important benefits:
Table 1. SPARKL benefits
Feature What it means Benefits
Distributed Intelligence SPARKL's local, hierarchical intelligence means devices and systems work together in a local hierarchy - as well as across the cloud.

With SPARKL, there's much less risky data transfer from your business to remote datacenters.
  • Increased security
  • Greater visibility
  • Tighter control
Reasoned Provisioning SPARKL configuration unifies application logic with datacenter resource provisioning.
That means compute, storage and network resources are now provisioned:
  • At the right time
  • For the right reason
  • Increased security
  • Reduced costs
Complete Audit Trail SPARKL logs every datacenter event as well as the logical flow of events that form a given business process.

Now you can prove the right data crossed the right paths to get to the right place.

 Proof of compliance for:
  • Regulators
  • Shareholders

To learn more about the applicability of SPARKL, see the SPARKL website.