I think Alan is planning to post up a review of the TUCON 2010 CEP track sessions that he was busy managing last week in Vegas. So I’ll limit this post to some links to some of the reviews and pointing out the other CEP-related sessions …
Brenda Michelson, who has long covered the EDA space, posted some reviews on:
- the Analyst Day which included CEP customer Energy Australia and their SmartGrid project
- OOCL and their Shipping Container Track and Trace application, using CEP for primarily exception management – this was very interesting as they went from a Java app, to BPEL (partial implementation), to a TIBCO BusinessEvents solution. So the ROI and business value of the CEP approach over a BPEL implementation, in this case, seems pretty clear. Note that many other business processes, though, have been successfully implemented using BPEL at OOCL.
- PepsiCo and real-time decision support, co-presented by Infosys, using primarily the TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager feature to standardise enforcement of shipping selection business rules at Pepsi Co.
ZDNet’s Dennis Howlett covered the analyst day too, and included remarks on CEP-user Xcel Energy’s smartgrid project as part of his summary. He also analysed the TIBCO CEO’s supposedly-controversial positioning of “Enterprise 3.0″…
Ovum’s Tony Baer was also unimpressed on “Enterprise 3.0” but did comment on the potential of text processing by Netrics in CEP (although later he complains about the lack of data quality solutions in TIBCO MDM – which AFAIK is actually the main role for Netrics being in the TIBCO product family!).
A number of other TIBCO CEP customers were busy in other tracks that ran in parallel to the main CEP “Business Optimization” track. So no-one could cover all the CEP sessions!
- Accenture talked about Vodafone‘s Strategic Order Management – …how Vodafone UK transformed its IT infrastructure to become a leading provider of total communications. … their strategic solution for Order Management, Product Catalogue and Service Delivery, which includes business process management, master data management and event processing technologies.
- EnergyAustralia also gave a session as well as talking to the analysts – …evolved from implementing simple integration projects to a full-fledged event-driven SOA environment, … monitoring real-time information from complex event patterns.
- HP and TIBCO covered Cyber Security – …real-time decision support has become increasingly critical to enterprise operations, establishing relationships between disparate events and the flood of seemingly unrelated data has often complicated cyber security solution development. … demonstrate, live, a jointly developed cyber security solution based on complex event processing and closed-loop systems analysis. This approach not only thwarts cyber attacks, it enables you to create actionable intelligence, specific courses of action, and situational awareness, culminating in rapid decision-making and attack mitigation.
- Swisscom talked about Business Transformation, together with TMNS, using the TIBCO Advanced Fulfillment Framework that embeds CEP – ...integration, business processes, data model-driven transformation, monitoring, and exception handling in complex environments.
- I also noticed that 4 of the 6 customer BPM sessions were by customers who also use TIBCO CEP technology in conjunction with BPM.
I think the above is a pretty decent turnout for CEP customers. Perhaps TUCON should be renamed “The Event Processing Show” next year!
