… has hit the newswires [*1,2,3] along with an IDC comment that TIBCO BusinessEvents is “the undisputed CEP leader, with a market share of 40.2 percent”. TIBCO BusinessEvents version 3 has already been in the hands of customers for a few weeks, and has lots of interesting cool features, such as:
- Distributed decision engine – for real-time event-driven decisions
- Multi-agent blackboard architecture – for complex Complex Event Processing, reliability and failover support, etc
- Workflow-maintained decision management – for rule-driven control of the lifecycle of decisions
- Support for multiple extensible event processing paradigms, including inference rule, continuous queries, and state management.
We’ll expand more on these over the coming weeks, but for now we need to start defining TIBCO BusinessEvents as an event processing platform, not just an “engine”. The platform covers:
- Event processing via rules, queries, custom algorithms, etc
- Distributed persistence of event history via a high-performance data grid
- Reliability and scalability via multiple agents
- IT modelling via concepts, states and rules
- Business modelling via decision tables
- Multiple event channels supported for flexibility.
Links:
[1] Infoworld / PCWorld Business gives some more analysis, and comments on the follow-up step being event analytics.
[2] ZDNet’s Dana Gardner makes some excellent points on the news and why the CEP space is important. And ends with “… TIBCO’s products are pointing up how now to take the insights of CEP into the realm of near real-time responses and ability to identify and repeat effective patterns of business behaviors. Dare I say, “agility”?”
[3] TechTarget adds another view concentrating on the rule management feature.
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