Archive: December, 2007
Happy New Year 2008!
Dear Friends, Thank you so much for all the support and kindness you have given me in 2007. Your words of encouragement, support and readership are very much appreciated. Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward All People in 2008. Yours Sincerely, Tim Bass www.thecepblog.com
Read moreMotor Vehicle Crashes and Complex Event Processing
The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) coordinates Department of Transportation’s (DOT) research programs. RITA’s mission is to advance the deployment of multi-disciplinary technologies to improve transportation system in the U.S. Shaw-Pin Miaou, Joon Jin Song and Bani K. Mallick wrote a detailed paper, Roadway Traffic Crash Mapping: A Space-Time Modeling Approach, in RITA’s Journal of Transportation [...]
Read moreOpenCourseWare: Get Smart for Complex Event Processing!
Ready to move beyond the basics of event processing? Perhaps you would like to beef up your Java skills? The Basics of Signal Processing? Or maybe you are interested in Advanced Complexity Theory? Artificial Intelligence? Computer Language Engineering? Queueing Theory? Well then, put your feet up, relax and click on over to the Department of Electrical [...]
Read moreCEP/EP Reference Customers 2005-2007
On November 8th 2007, after compiling a list of CEP/EP reference customers from the open literature and public press releases, I issued a call for CEP reference customers in the Yahoo! CEP-Interest Group and on the professional networking site LinkedIn. During the past 7 weeks I provided an opportunity for all concerned to view and [...]
Read moreVisualization Reloaded
Enjoying visualizing a better world, world peace and global cooling in my meditative serene holiday at Divana Nurture Spa, I could not help but transcend into thoughts about a recent post, Visualizations Update. In his thoughtful post above, Marc Adler briefly mentions heatmaps and visualization in the context of event processing adapters, analytics, and the ecosystem in general. In an [...]
Read moreAdapters and Analytics: COTS? NOT!
Marc Adler shows why his musings are rapidly becoming one of my “must read” blogs in his post, CEP Vendors and the Ecosystem. We have been making similar points in the event processing blogosphere, namely the important of adapters and analytics. Today, event processing vendors are surprisingly weak in both areas. For one thing, there was way much emphasis on rules-based [...]
Read moreMiddleware and Event Processing Expenditures
Paul Vincent of TIBCO Software in his post, Outside CEP: the infrastructure stack, makes a statement that “every $ a CEP vendor spends on middleware integration is a $ less on interesting CEP functionality.” Opher Etzion of IBM, in turn, agrees with Paul in his post, On the envelope for CEP, and discusses how there is much overlap [...]
Read moreSee How Trees, Flowers and Grass Grow in Silence
In the mist of event processing debates, evaluations, meetings, complexity and evangelism, sometimes we should just pause and take a break. See how the trees, flowers and grass grow in silence. See the stars, the moon, and the sun move in silence. Slow the world down with a simple kind of pleasure. And so I did [...]
Read moreA First Glance at Coral8 Studio
My recent prior experience with an event processing (EP) product was with TIBCO BusinessEvents, which is a fine product, so I’ll talk about my experience so far with Coral8 and compare and contrast with TIBCO’s BE along the way. First of all, I like the fact that folks can download Coral8′s EP software, plus all the [...]
Read moreTIBCO Bounces Back, Kaskad Falls
Great news for TIBCO Software in this quarterly earnings report, as their stock rises over 7 percent after the announcment. Congrats Team TIBCO! There is very bad news for one of the event processing startups, recently published by Marco in Kaskad Technology is now Dead.
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