EPTS Use Case survey announced
Thanks to Prof. Pedro Bizarro (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Christoph Emmersberger (Senacor Technologies, Germany) for the announcement that the new Event Processing Technical...
Do Businesses need 63 different types of event?
One of the drivers of success in the BPM world has been BPMN - the Business Process Modelling Notation - developed under BPMI before...
Many-core CPUs for Event Processing Networks?
Interesting to see some publicity on Intel many-core CPU research, what they are calling the "single chip cloud computer". While CEP software companies like...
Updated CEP tool Evaluation Guide
I had an end-user request to update the technology evaluation guide we posted earlier this year. So I put together a PDF version to...
Decision Points: not just a US President’s book
Listening to a presentation on the TIBCO Kabira Policy Manager I was impressed by the separation of concerns as "decision points" - the application...
BCS Roger Needham Lecture 2010: decidability of real-time systems
One evening last week the British Computer Society hosted its annual Roger Needham lecture for 2010, and as the topic included covered real-time systems...
Algo Trading: optimising distance to multiple exchanges
It is common lore that financial institutions are putting their server rooms closer and closer to exchanges' servers in order to minimise the message...
Analytics vs CEP vendors – surely this is almost the same thing?
Thanks to Brenda Michelson for pointing out this Computer Business Review article on SAS (a traditional, historic-data-based analytics vendor) poo-pooing the need for CEP...
TIBCO ActiveSpaces 1.1 released
TIBCO's data grid is now on its 1.1 release, extended with parallel batch operations, persistence interface, capacity policy, seeder policy and tuple-space lifecycle support....
SBB and Event Constraint Processing
Last week I presented "4th Generation CEP" to the TIBCO NOW event in Zurich, Switzerland. Much more interesting than presenting, though, was listening to...