Good to see ebizQ interviewing Gartner’s Roy Schulte on the value of CEP to applications’ operational intelligence (as we call it) or IQ (as Roy calls it). Makes me wonder if Gartner is developing an IQ metric for organisations based on their agility, responsiveness, etc through exploiting technologies like CEP. I guess that would be a kind of IT Business Maturity Model…
Anyone interested in reading more on Roy’s views would be recommended to check out the book “Event Processing – Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies” he co-authored with Prof Mani Chandy.
Interesting to see Roy is also covering business rules and decisions now at Gartner, per JT’s report from the Gartner BPM conference (see http://jtonedm.com/2011/04/28/rapid-fire-business-rules-at-gartner-bpm ). Roy mentioned the role of making decisions based on CEP detecting interesting events…