Checking through the presentations and workshops for IRMUK’s Business Analysis (and BPM) 2009 conference last month, I thought it would be interesting to see much focus there was on business event modeling. Probably the star (from the event perspective) was James Archer from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea… Read More →

My thanks to Robin Cover at standards body OASIS for pointing out to me the OASIS Symptoms Autonomic Framework initiative. From the OASIS TC page, SAF is meant to: “… integrate information and processes across the organization … by defining, enhancing, and maintaining a standard XML-based framework that will enable… Read More →

Ron Ross’ latest edition of his guidebook, Business Rule Concepts, expands further on the relationship between enforcable business rules and the events that cause their evaluation. Ron uses the example of a business rule that might apply in a workflow: “a customer must be assigned to an agent if the… Read More →

Thanks to TIBCO’s Scott Vorthmann for updating me on the SCA-Assembly-Extensions-for-Event-Processing-and-Pub/Sub draft, which was reported on InfoQ a few months ago. This seems to be mostly an Oracle + IBM effort, and seemingly is occuring outside of OASIS, which seems strange if it is true. There is some interesting commentary… Read More →

Last week’s OMG standards meeting included an interesting presentation by John Hall of Model Systems (and SSADM fame) on the role of (business) events in linking business (policy-type) rules to business processes. John normally deals with business modeling artifacts like OMG BMM and OMG SBVR, so it was interesting to… Read More →

The Business Rule Forum folk have just published their flier for submissions for their November conference [*1], and I noticed what seems to be a sly misprint (or a slight dig at the technology-focused Complex Event Processing community) in their call for customer case studies: We also invite your presentation… Read More →

At OMG this week we had an update on the BPMN 2.0 work. BPMN 2.0 is of course primarily for the “human event processing” community, a.k.a BPM, and adds an XML storage mechanism for persisting processes and diagrams as an “alternative” to WfMC’s XPDL. BPMN defines easy-to-read process “orchestrations” or… Read More →

Paul Haley, no doubt somewhat bemused that his old company (still using his name) is now under the Oracle banner, presented his proposal for the development of an upper ontology joining together the concepts of events (and event processing), process, state and rules. Not surprisingly, given that TIBCO is here… Read More →

Continuing our posts from the Distributed Event Based Systems conference: the next tutorial was Opher Etzion from IBM Labs on CEP Patterns [*1]. Or more accurately, a notation for event processing components, which seemed more generic than the Snoop notation from the previous session, and possibly a good fit for… Read More →

Occasionally it is good to attend an academic [*1] conference in one’s field, and the Distributed Event Based Systems conference is considered one of the main events for CEP (although it includes a major dose of pub-sub / middleware topics too). Held in Rome, Italy, the conference organizers had a… Read More →