Category: Business Process Management
CEP Soapbox: Moving from Marketing to Modelling
Many of the folks in the event processing community are my dear friends, so I hesitate to stand up on my vulnerable soapbox and speak a piece of my mind. If you would be so kind to permit me to get on my soapbox without naming names or providing links, that would be much appreciated. [...]
Read moreGetting Started in CEP: How to Build an Event Processing Application (Part 1)
Complex event processing (CEP) is a promising new technology that aims to enable businesses to quickly identify and respond to both threats and opportunities. Many companies are interested in the promise of CEP but they are unsure where to begin. We are fortunate that our friends at Gartner are hosting their first event processing summit, [...]
Read moreBAM to SOA – Da’ Buzzhype Revisited
Many readers have read the hype, experienced the Orwellian marketspeak, watched the positioning debates, and seen poorly managed software companies play the game of analyst-chasing (similar to ambulance chasing when you think about it). Finally, the up-to-date definitions, and hopefully a bit of wit and humor: BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) – software that gives you [...]
Read moreSecurity Event Management (SEM) with CEP (Part 4) – The 5 Principles of SEM
Security Event Management (SEM) with CEP (Part 4) – The 5 Principles of SEM In Part 2 and Part 3 of Security Event Management (SEM) with CEP, we reviewed trends in cybersecurity and the motivation for SEM and CEP. That introduction leads us to a brief post on the high-level functional requirements of SEM. In [...]
Read moreIBM CEP Patent Application 20070118545 – Visible May 24, 2007
Posted by Tim Bass IBM filed (corrected earlier patent application status error) a CEP patent, 20070118545, on November 21st, 2005, now viewable by the public on May 24th, 2007, titled, Dynamic business process integration using complex event processing. The patent abstract states: An enterprise application integration broker for managing a number of applications. The enterprise [...]
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