Archive: June, 2008
Marc Adler: Analytics are an Integral Part of the CEP Stack
In Recent Buyouts, Marc Adler of Citigroup blogs “Despite what the various pundits of the CEP world say, I still think that analytics are an integral part of the CEP stack.” Mark also says something else I agree with, “… [TIBCO] Business Events [ ... is ...] a more workflow-oriented product, something that you would NOT use to [...]
Read moreThe Grammar of Complex and Intelligent Events
Folks defining CEP, and now this new term IEP, have been very passionate over the past few years that “Complex Event Processing” means the Processing of “Complex Events” not the “Complex Processing” of Events. Grammatically speaking, it follows that Complex is an adjective describing a noun, Event; and Processing is a verb. Complex events are defined by the same [...]
Read moreThe Infant, the Elephant and the Intelligent Event
Fellow blogger Opher Etzion, replies to On Elephants and Analytics with On Unicorn, Professor and Infant. Opher is kindly giving us another metaphor to consider, the Infant and the Profession, since we are both big fans of big gentle elephants, babies and our universities. Opher and I agree that Infants are not Professors, and we also agree that CEP is in [...]
Read moreOn Elephants and Analytics
In On EP and Analytics, good friend and respected colleague Opher Etzion applies the well known metaphor of the big elephant to describe how, if you are observing certain specific domains of a subject, like fraud detection, then your view of the whole elephant is biased by your lack of perspective of the entire big elephant. I am pleased that dear Opher [...]
Read moreTIBCO Leaps Ahead in CEP with Insightful Acquisition
TIBCO Software shows, yet again, why the team in Palo Alto far outpaces the rest of the field with their announced acquisition of Insightful. Everyone who follows The CEP Blog and my vision for the business use of CEP understands how much energy and passion I have put into explaining why the crude time-series analysis of streaming data cannot possibly [...]
Read moreCapital Market CEP Fantasy Land
In Tech Spending Hit by Subprime Mess, Jeffery Schwartz says, “According to Tabb, spending on development is being refocused on projects that can help firms improve their margins and, not surprisingly, do a better job at risk management. As such, investments in capabilities such as algorithmic trading and complex event processing (CEP) are likely to [...]
Read moreICT Cmte: Thailand’s Cyber Law Compliance Seminar
ICT Cmte: Thailand’s Cyber Law Compliance Seminar American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand Date & Time: 17-Jun-2008 Details: This month You are invited to attend a Computer Crime Act Compliance Seminar. Find out what the Thai “Cyber Law” requires, when it will start to be enforced and how you can comply. If your business or [...]
Read moreThe Predictive Battlespace
Friend and colleague Don Adams, CTO World Wide Public Sector, TIBCO Software, explains how CEP can be used to sense, adapt and respond to complex situations in The “Predictive” Battlespace: Leveraging the Power of Event-Driven Architecture in Defense.
Read moreProbabilistic Complex Event Triggering
Here is an interesting paper, Probabilistic Complex Event Triggering, Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, and Liviu Tancau, Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, circa 2005. One of the first things I noticed about the paper was the discussion of probability in the content of complex event processing, including Hidden Markov processes, Bayesian Belief [...]
Read moreUpdate on the LinkedIn CEP Users Group
There are now 234 members of the CEP Users Group on LinkedIn. So, if you have not yet joined the CEP Users Group, please do so by clicking here.
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