Dr John Bates of Apama, cofounder of one of the earliest vendors in the CEP space, gave a very nice keynote presentation at DEBS. Apama’s view on CEP market trends include things like location-aware telco services such as real-time dating (!), transport and logistics, etc. In particular John predicted:
- the rise of event-driven business rules, tracking anything on the planet
- federated services and the agile “enterprise nervous system”, including event rules in the cloud(s), in IT Architecture
- the demise of the specialist “EP”/”CEP” market with its replacement by “Event Driven BPM” covering rules, events and BPM as well as industry apps embedding event processing.
One automatically respects speakers when they politely reference their industry competitors – for example John gave due credit to TIBCO for pushing event processing in market areas beyond Capital Markets, as well as rule-engine-based event processing. And there was nothing in John’s presentation we could disagree (much) with. Except maybe the need for that CEP-driven dating thing… 🙂
[Disclaimer: Apama is a competitor to TIBCO BusinessEvents in the CEP market].
