… was the title of the round table we chaired at the BPM Consortium meeting in DC last week. Some interesting observations (of mine, not necessarily the round table contributors) were:
- Business Process Management technologists understand the difference between Complex Event Processing capabilities and BPM, but the difference is less obvious to BPM practitioners and business analysts who try and view everything through a process orchestration (a la BPMN) filter.
- Some BPM vendors are likely to partner with CEP tools to provide complex events to drive BPM. Interestingly TIBCO has customers using various BPM vendors with our CEP solution (TIBCO BusinessEvents), as well as BPM+CEP as part of the wider “BPM+” solution.
- General BPM patterns for using CEP were
- identifying complex events to drive business processes
- processing events and making decisions to invoke business processes to handle exceptions
- monitoring and tracking for business processes and associated services
- In federal / government applications, the sorts of applications that are likely to combine CEP and BPM are things like
- transportation and logistics: tracking vehicles, smart traffic control, ATC, etc
- regulatory compliance: ensuring SEC compliance, report analysis, checking against Ponzi schemes, etc
- security: tracking people, unusual travel patterns, etc.
This session was pretty much a repeat of previous CEP round tables at BPM think tanks: the interesting thing is how the different contributions vary.
