Per a recent press release, TIBCO has completed its acquisition of Insightful, known for its S+ statistics language (and with a common ancestry with the open source R langage) as used, amongst others, in the financial industry. S+ and R have had a few mentions in recent CEP blogs:
- Marc Adler commented on the initial TIBCO Insightful announcement [*1], and the potential for S+ queries in CEP (which is probably true at some level)
- Hans Gilde commented on improvements to R and responded to Marc’s comment on S+ Queries
- Tim Bass complimented the TIBCO team about the acquisition (understanding, of course, what advanced statistics and trending functions mean for the complex processing of complex events)
We won’t comment now on what this might mean for Complex Event Processing, real-time decisions, or operational intelligence in future, but if anyone has any interesting CEP-with-S+ use cases they want to see enhanced, please let us know!
Notes:
[1] Mark also commented that he hadn’t seen “built-in adapter support for object caches, like… Tangasol” in CEP tools. TIBCO BusinessEvents has included Tangosol (now called Coherance), out-of-the-box, since version 2.0 so we obviously need to give Mark an update (at the forthcoming Gartner EP Show no doubt).
