The previous CEP Market review earlier this year had a few suggestions for new entries: so we ‘ve updated the chart with what data we could find. Hope this is useful. Note: please comment on this post any suggested changes, births, deaths and marriages in the event processing tooling market,… Read More →

Some folks may have noticed some changes in the TIBCO corporate website, including various references to some of the TLAs in the above expression: 2-Second Advantage or 2SA: a business competitive enabler, achieved by exploiting E3. Event Enabled Enterprise or E3: an IT compliance requirement for real-time business support, requiring… Read More →

Interesting article in the New Scientist titled “Inside Facebook’s massive cyber-security system” about a system they call the “Facebook Immune System” (FIS)… …an all-seeing set of algorithms that monitors every photo posted to the network, every status update- indeed, every click made by every one of the 800 million users…. Read More →

Prof. Zicardi of ODBMS.org (remember ODBMS?[*1]) published an interesting interview with HP Fellow (and past RDBMS architect) Dr Goetz Graefe on the rising importance of “data storage” without the twirling-disks-thing. Of course this is a trend very much in evidence at customers of TIBCO with (“NoSQL”-type, or more accurately, “SQL-optional”)… Read More →

Last week Forrester analysts Mike Gualtieri and John Rymer published a briefing on the “Future of Business Rules Platforms”, looking at the rules engines that have been so successful in providing business logic platforms for the BPM and SOA worlds. Their opinions are worth noting as they reflect what we… Read More →

This weekend there was an article in a Sunday newspaper for an “intelligent smoke detector” – one that not just sets off an audible alarm, but also sends a message to some registered phones. And last week the BBC reported on a CISCO prediction on the “proliferation of … connected… Read More →

I see that last year’s Dagstuhl workshop report has been published, titled “Executive Summary and Manifesto — Event Processing”. This is an excellent 60-page group effort by some of the great-and-the-good in event processing, and recommended reading! The top-level Table Of Contents is: Chapter 1: Why event processing? Chapter 2:… Read More →

EbizQ is running a series of articles (first here and second here, curiously classified under “Social BPM“) on “dynamic BPM”, quoting luminaries such as Gartner’s Janelle Hill and Jim Sinur, and Forrester’s Clay Richardson. In the simplest terms, [dynamic BPM] supports rapid “on the fly” process adjustments. “You can respond… Read More →

It’s an interesting observation that the largest suppliers of database technology have also dipped their toes into CEP technology (although some with more enthusiasm than others it seems) – Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Sybase… and maybe even Teradata. Most of these have naturally gone for event stream processing rather than other… Read More →

TIBCO has a virtual booth at the MWD Advisors Process Intelligence virtual event, covering TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM Spotfire (which might also win the award for the longest product name) – which does visual and predictive analytics on your process information – and TIBCO BusinessEvents (i.e. CEP) – which does real-time… Read More →