Method and system for sensing information, imputing meaning to the information, and determining actions based on that meaning, in a distributed computing environment

A machine implemented method and system, including: receiving at a near real-time processor module, one or more tenant-specific business objects from a message handler module; receiving at the near real-time processor module, contextual data related to the received one or more tenant-specific business objects from a platform analytics module; forming at the near real-time processor module, one or more events by applying one or more pre-defined analytic models to the received contextual data and the received one or more tenant-specific business objects; receiving at a message publisher module, one or more events from the near real-time processor module; and transmitting the received one or more events to one or more subscribers for the one or more events.