Business rule execution: stateless/transactional, stateful/monitoring, or both?
TIBCO was recently invited to discuss the technology needs for a large rule-driven insurance risk management system. Interestingly, the specified requirements had nothing to...
Geek and Poke and CEP
Here's a sure sign that a technology three letter acronym (CEP) is hitting its stride - someone draws a cartoon lampooning it. Geek...
Forthcoming CEP content
In case anyone was wondering what sort of IT events are covering CEP over the next few months, here is a short list to...
CEP as the EDA Application Server?
One of the common questions for Technical Architects today is whether any particular application should be implemented as conventional, orchestrated, BPM-SOA , or as...
CEP vs the hype cycle
One of the problems with new technologies is the issues of "over-hyping". This normally occurs when the level of excitement exceeds realism, and claims...
Complex Events come quick and fast in the airline business
There has been some commentary recently about the airline / air travel business as a prime candidate for CEP. Firstly, Prof. David Luckam himself...
Calling All (BEA & Aptsoft) CEP Professionals
A couple of days ago Paul suggested politely that consultants working for some of the smaller niche CEP (mostly ESP) vendors might want to...
Nick Leeson (Part Deux)
When I first started talking to clients and prospects about TIBCO BusinessEvents and CEP, I used to present the case study of Barings bank,...
What’s coming in CEP: Modeling of Events?
One of the "next big things" for the CEP industry to consider is the modeling of "events", both from a business and IT perspective...
TIBCO BusinessEvents 2.2 now shipping…
Another release of TIBCO BusinessEvents has hit the streets: version 2.2. The main change with this release is the inclusion of new deployment options:
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