Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis, 2007
I often get asked that if the current self-decribed CEP vendors are not doing “real CEP,” in my opinon, who are the vendors in the CEP space?
At the moment, event correlation and event analysis is Gartner’s closest magic quadrant (MQ) that relates directly to complex event processing (and event processing in general).
A number of our friends and colleagues would like to position CEP as BRE, BRMS, BPM, SOA, algo trading and just about every other technology under the sun, except event correlation!
In a nutshell, the state-of-the-state of CEP/EP is that a number of firms in the software industry have found some “uncharted magic quadrant waters” and are positioning themselves to be “chart worthy”. Instead of competing head on with the experienced players (event correlation and analysis) that have been in the event processing field for many years.
As I have mentioned a few times here on The CEP Blog, if the current generation self-described CEP engines were leading the industry in event correlation and analysis (CEP’s core technology domain) they would be either be on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis, or possibly acquired by a one of these large giants in event processing to solve complex event processing and event correlation problems that remain, for the most part, still unsolved!
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I was surprised to see that Progress Apama was not included in your CEP magic quandrant. Was it considered?
Hi Paul,
This is a chart from Gartner, not us.
I cannot speak for Gartner, but from experience, most of the self-described CEP software vendors do not want to compete directly with the subject matter experts and established players in markets like event correlation.
Instead, they are trying to define a new software marketing space, for marketing purposes, not technical correctness or accuracy. The truth of the matter is that folks have been building more complex systems than the current generation self-described CEP vendors for many years before the phrase “complex event processing” was created.
Yours sincerely, Tim
So, you mean vendors like Aleri, Coral8, EsperTech, IBM, Oracle, Progress Software, StreamBase Systems , TIBCO Software or UC4 Software are not doing “real” CEP? I am new to CEP and still in the learning phase, so please tell me what you think makes the difference.
Kind regards
Tobias
Hi Tobias,
Please read the blog and other countless articles I have written on this topic.
I have many posts on this topic and they are easy to find
Cheers and Take Care!