I see from Tim Bass’ blog that Brian Husted of Pyxis has published a paper titled “Event Driven Grid Computing“. This is regarding a US DOD SOA application that exploited “CEP to enable scalability for SOA“, handling tasks like intelligent routing, governance, monitoring and complex workflows.
Brian comes across as pretty enthusiastic about the use of the TIBCO BusinessEvents event processing platform, for example commenting “… a small number of people (2 or 3) can turn out big things with BE”. Hopefully he’ll find time in the near future to write about some of his other BusinessEvents applications.
Notes: See also this past post on the topic of CEP, EDA and SOA.
Thanks Brian,
The nice thing about BE is of course it is also extendable. We can’t comment on “future features” here but the Event Processing Network architecture with Event Processing Agents (2 types today: inference and query) should fit well with other techniques (e.g. interfacing to the TIBCO Spotfire S+ suite, as well as other analytics engines). Plus extending the ontology features (as it happens I am presenting on CEP+Ontologies at the OMG Ontology Information Day today…)… will post later on that.
Cheers
Paul -
We are currently looking expand BE beyond event processing applications to modeling the enterprise to capture and react to global events. Having three years of experience, we have seen the need for other types of event processing analytics to both simplify and scale temporal processing. For our customer, situational awareness will be the next evolution of CEP, and I believe the ontology will provide the highest level view to assess the “situation”.
Here is a related comment on Tim’s blog:
http://www.thecepblog.com/2009/03/01/peter-lin-on-situational-awareness-and-cep/#comment-27310
Regards,
Brian Husted