… was a full (if small) classroom at Ulm Universitat in S Germany this week, as part of BPM2009 – not normal CEP territory of course. Besides the TIBCO keynote (covering, of course, the various synergies between event and rule processing in high-performance and dynamic BPM), there were several papers presented on the general area of event-driven BPM.
One of the interesting observations was that 2 of the papers were about Aris’ Event Process Chain and its relationship to BPEL. Now, EPC is a (non standard) model notation at a slightly higher abstraction level than BPMN. And of course, BPMN / process orchestrations are event driven but hardly model the events as first-class citizens (as an exercise, take any reasonable BPMN diagram, shrink the activity task boxes and enlarge the event circles, and observe the effect). And of course, BPEL is not normally considered anything special for event processing. In my humble opinion there is much more of interest to edBPM than just simple event processing and BPEL!
For more on BPM2009, check out Sandy Kemsley’s blog. Meanwhile, I’ll be trying to keep out of the way of the Porsches tearing up the autobahn…
