CEP topics at TUCON 2008

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Next week sees the TIBCO User Group, TUCON, take place in San Francisco. The schedule includes a number of CEP-related topics; here is a handy cheat-sheet for some of them [*1]:

  • Weds 30 Apr, 16.00-16.50: Open the Door to Event Processing
    Track: Introduction: Tibco Products & technology direction
    Can your business sense, analyze, interpret, and respond to event-driven business situations in real time? In this session we explore how to get the maximum value from your SOA by understanding event-based architectures, complex event processing models, and how TIBCO BusinessEvents™ software fits into your architectural strategies.

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  • Weds 30 Apr, 16.00-16.50: In-Process Analytics: Integration of TIBCO BusinessEvents and TIBCO Spotfire Enterprise Analytics
    Track: Optimization: From Event Management and Monitoring to Analytics
    As companies see the need to have accurate, up-to-date business intelligence (BI) driving their business processes, they are demanding adaptable software solutions to help them do it. The combination of business process and event processing with BI technology makes relevant information available in the right context at the right time. Integrated with the business process, Spotfire can equip every business person to quickly discover new insights and make better decisions in real time. In this session, we’ll look at some initial ways that Spotfire can work in conjunction with TIBCO’s BPM and CEP technologies.

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  • Weds 30 Apr, 16.00-16.50: Spice Up Your Ajax Applications with Real-Time Data
    Track: Development: Interfaces, Services, and Composite Applications
    Break through the web’s request/response barrier into real-time information for web applications. Learn how to provide highly scalable real-time data services to Ajax applications, HTML pages, and other web technologies using TIBCO Ajax Message Service™. Participants will step through the integration of TIBCO General Interface™ with TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™ using TIBCO Ajax Message Service™ and TIBCO PageBus™. Experience first-hand these powerful new capabilities that make applets, active-x, and desktop-installed clients obsolete.

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  • Thurs May 1, 10.30-11.20: Southwest Airlines: Using BusinessEvents for Real-Time Problem Detection and Resolution
    Track: Optimization: From Event Management and Monitoring to Analytics
    Southwest Airlines (SWA), the world’s leading low-cost airline, is constantly looking for ways to improve efficiencies and keep costs down while remaining profitable and providing Positively Outrageous Customer Service. Learn how SWA is using TIBCO BusinessEvents™ to build an “Early Alerts System” to help operational groups identify and solve potential issues before they impact operations. Members of the SWA Technology Department will present an overview of the applications they’re building leveraging TIBCO products and how those applications fit into the enterprise SOA.

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  • Thurs May 1, 14.00-14.50: Trade Lifecycle Management with TIBCO BusinessEvents and TIBCO iProcess
    Track: Architecture 2: From Principles to Best Practice
    Cognizant and TIBCO have come together to create a technology platform addressing the needs of the securities industry to optimize straight through processing and minimize trade breaks. Through knowledge-based analysis, this unique platform provides a rules-driven workflow management of trades and a real-time prediction of threats. Learn how it lowers transaction risk and results in potential large financial savings.

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  • Thurs May 1, 15.00-15.50: Allstate: Increasing Agility and Customer Centricity
    Track: Optimization: From Event Management and Monitoring to Analytics
    Allstate took an existing TIBCO BusinessWorks™ implementation and added TIBCO BusinessEvents™ to achieve greater agility and customer centricity. Their experience and best practices are applicable to any company considering how to incorporate complex event processing (CEP) into an existing TIBCO enterprise integration environment. Get pragmatic advice and answers to your questions from the developers and implementers behind the project.

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  • Thurs May 1, 16.00-16.50: Advanced BusinessEvents Implementation Strategies
    Track: Optimization: From Event Management and Monitoring to Analytics
    This session, presented by experts in TIBCO BusinessEvents™ consulting and engineering, will cover topics such as caching techniques, rule and state management strategies, and BusinessEvents tuning techniques through demonstrations and case studies. Come to this session if you want to really understand some of the advanced concepts and deployment features within the BusinessEvents product set from the experts who work with the product on a regular basis.

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Notes:

[1] Of course, there are plenty of other interesting SOA and BPM sessions too. Some will also refer to TIBCO BusinessEvents