Category: Complex Event Processing
Epilogue on CEP Maturity
In On the Maturity of Complex Event Processing, the author concludes: “I think [... the. ...] comment at the end of [... the. ...] post “we shouldn’t feel compelled to thwart that growth with a claim that the products are not ‘mature’ when they actually are in a lot of ways” is quite revealing. The fact that such a [...]
Read moreMore on CEP Maturity: Capability Versus Reliability
Louis Lovas of Progress Apama wrote a complimentary blog entry on the topic at hand, CEP Maturity Models. In his post, Louis says: “What a CEP platform has tracks independently of what it is capable of doing. ….. What CEP does, is likely what Tim is referring to when he states we’re in the Technology Trigger phase.” [...]
Read moreMore on CEP: Process, Service or Reference Architecture?
In reply to Paul Vincent’s post Is CEP a Service or a Process? I posted Is CEP a Service or a Process? Reloaded. This post is a follow-up to my dialog with Paul and the CEP community, as a whole. Some of the more remarkable critical comments on the book “The Power of Events” was that the [...]
Read moreOn CEP Maturity and the Gartner Hype Cycle
In reply to Mark Palmer’s rebuttal, What Does it Mean to be Mature?, the figure below illustrates the popular Gartner Hype Cycle. You can click on the illustration to get a clearer image. In context to the Gartner Hype Cycle, CEP is closer to the “Technology Trigger” phase than anywhere else in the hype cycle. CEP has not [...]
Read moreOn the Maturity of CEP
Deciphering the Myths Around Complex Event Processing by Ivy Schmerken stimulated a recent flurry of blog posts about the maturity of CEP, including; Mark Palmer’s CEP Myths: Mature or Not? and Opher Etzion’s On Maturity. I agree with Ivy. CEP is not yet a mature technology by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I agree with all [...]
Read moreIs CEP a Service or a Process? Reloaded
In Is CEP a Service or a Process? Paul Vincent of TIBCO blogs that any classification of CEP depends on the application, concluding that CEP is both a process and a service. Well (sorry Paul!), I disagree. CEP is neither a process nor a service; CEP is a concept architecture for processing complex events. (I have advocated a [...]
Read moreOpen Service Event Management
One of the benefits of working in different countries is to get the perspectives of various client’s event processing problems. Of interest to event processing professionals, companies are moving away from expensive software solutions and increasingly moving toward experimenting with economical and open software packages to solve complex problems. Recently, I was talking with a client about their experience with commercial security event [...]
Read moreA Vocabulary of Confusion
The blog post, On Event Processing Agents, reminds me of a presentation back in March 2006, where TIBCO‘s ex-CEP evangelist Tim Bass (now busy working for a conservative business advisory company in Asia and off the blogosphere, as we all know) presented his keynote, Processing Patterns for Predictive Business, at the first event processing symposium. In that [...]
Read moreEvent Processing in Twitter Space
I don’t Twitter. But…. Then all the Twitter jokes on Geek and Poke got my attention. Then, again, I started thinking …. What if we could process all those Twitter events, all the millions of answers to the little Twitter question: What are you doing now? What if your entire sales force Twittered? Maybe a [...]
Read morePlease Welcome Dr. Rainer von Ammon to The CEP Blog
Today is an especially joyful occasion on The CEP Blog. I am pleased to announce that one of the world’s top experts on CEP, Dr. Rainer von Ammon, has joined the blog. Dr. Rainer von Ammon is managing director of the Centrum für Informations-Technology Transfer (CITT) in Regensburg. Until October 2005 he was Professor for Software Engineering, specializing in [...]
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