I thought it would be a good time to update the CEP Market diagram. This covers all the main event processing application development tools (as far as I know). Compared to, say, the EPTS membership list there will be a mismatch – some EPTS members have not announced products yet, are in conventional (as in, not continuous / complex) event processing, or are focused on research.
I also thought it might be a good idea to bend the original rule for inclusion to add some of the fruits of the main players in CEP such as Dr Luckham’s Stanford spin-off ePatterns, as mentioned in his “Short History of CEP”.
It’s quite likely we’ll see more CEP merger and acquisition activity in 2010. Meanwhile it is the BPMS market that is currently in the news with a spate of takeovers (i.e. IBM with Lombardi, and Progress with Savvion). BPM is of course related to (and indeed a type of) event processing, albeit with a focus on standard operating procedures and processes (exemplified by the “human-oriented simple event processing” that is workflow); but then, BPM is also considered a much larger market than CEP – at least in the first decade of the the 21st centory.
TIBCO’s contributions to event processing innovations in 2010 start appearing in merely a few weeks – it should be a good year!
Notes:
Start dates for tools and tool classification are not guaranteed:
- Start date is based on “available data” for “commercial delivery” (hence excluding lab-only “products”)
- Font size is meant to give a very approximate indication of number of (CEP tool) customers and thence indication of market importance. Yes, VERY approximate!
