Archive: August, 2008
EPTS: An Event Processing Marketing Society (EPMS)
A number of months ago we posted Some Comments on the EPTS Member Agreement where we concluded, in summary: “I have quite a few other concerns the with EPTS Member Agreement. Basically, the agreement needs to be written with an eye toward a more flexible, open and inclusive process that puts the future of the EPTS square [...]
Read moreMid Year 2008 CEP Public Reference Client Survey
Our Call for Public CEP Reference Clients for 2008 and on-line research has revealed some expected less-than-encouraging CEP news for 2008. In a year of downwardly falling capital markets, a continued recession in real-estate markets, unending war and global uncertainty, we find there are myriad CEP partnership and OEM annoucements, quite a few mysterious “secret tribe of elders” awards and a lot of marketing releases [...]
Read moreThe Secret Sauce is the Situation Models
Alan Lundberg wrote, Intelligent Business Process Platform? in response to Bringing Order to Chaos where someone from PWC linked event processing to business intelligence and business process management. In turn, James Taylor penned Using decision management to deliver intelligent business performance where James rightly said that it does not require “heroic efforts” to integrate event processing, BI, BPM and [...]
Read moreObject Refinement in CEP: Tracking Temperatures
Our colleagues at Apama share an interesting use case, tracking the body temperature of someone walking in their recent press release. This use case is a clear example of a subfunction of complex event processing, folks in the multi-sensor data fusion field (and here at The CEP Blog) refer to as event (object) refinement, sometimes called “track and trace.” The reason we call this [...]
Read moreAs They Say: When in Rome, Do as the Romans.
Recently I had a nice conversation with the head of Asia-Pacific of an international company about how to succeed in Thailand. I explained how businesses in Thailand do not respond well to companies that come to Thailand with no experience, track record or support infrastructure here in the Kingdom. I also explained how Thailand has [...]
Read moreRed Herring Fallacies: The Straw Man Argument
According to our friend Wikipedia, the Straw Man argument is a red-herring fallacy where one party in a debate describes a position that, on the surface, resembles an opponent’s actual view but is easier to refute. Then, in counterpoint, the debating partner attributes an easily refutable position to the opponent (for example, deliberately overstating the [...]
Read moreThe Fallacy of Self-Fulfilling CEP Use Case Studies
I am back at the glaring computer screen after a day in Lamphun, Northern Thailand, hanging out will my friends who are preparing for a Bonsai tree competition. I spent the day eating Thai and Chinese food and relaxing in a lounge chair under imported blue palm trees with the sound of exotic birds making background music to [...]
Read moreThe Secret Life of CEP
Catching up on the blogs, I couldn’t help but comment on, Is CEP Mature? Or a Curious Case of Information Asymmetry by Mark Tsimelzon, President & CTO, Coral8. Mark says, “I know for a fact that every major CEP vendor has several dozen paying customers.” Somehow Mark, I don’t find a dozen paying customers by [...]
Read moreOn CEP as a Discipline
In CEP as a Discipline, David Luckham wrote: “Actually, it is fair to say that some of CEP can be found in other disciplines. Event processing has been going on in one form or another, for the past 50 years. Simulation, Networking, Active DBs, Middleware. { …. } CEP has only just begun. The foundations [...]
Read moreThe Magical ATM Card and SMS Message in Thailand
It was not too long ago that I penned Keyloggers: Why Banks Need Two-Factor Authentication. In that post, I briefly mentioned how a number of banks in Thailand use inexpensive SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) with one-time password (OTP) to authenticate transactions. One of my favorite banks in Thailand is K-Bank. With K-Bank I can simply [...]
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