Differences between a BRE and a rule-driven CEP engine (Part 2)
Earlier we looked at the coarse-grain delta between commercial BREs and rule-driven CEP engines. Lets look now at the implications of these, and also...
Differences between a BRE and a rule-driven CEP engine (Part 1)
One consistent question we get from outside the CEP market is: what is the difference between a "standard" Business Rules Engine (or BRE) and...
CEP at the European Business Rules Conference 2007
The EBRC (European sibling of US-based Business Rules Forum) was held in Dusseldorf, Germany this year. TIBCO presented the concept of Complex...
How much of CEP is rules?
I just saw this post referring to a trading software vendor's use of the Sandia Labs JESS rules engine . Which of course should...
CEP Standards – OMG getting in on the act…
I noticed that the OMG Analysis and Design Task Force has a survey by Robert Covington of "Event Driven Architecture" related standards. EDA is...
Semantic Technologies and CEP (2): A short detour to rule standards
I just spent a long weekend in Innsbruck, Austria for the W3C Rule Interchange Format meeting, followed by the European Semantic Web Conference 2007...
CEP and Alphabet Soup – BPM time
Confession time: BPM is a catch-all term for process execution mechanisms, workflow, and a few other concepts such as BAM, collaboration, and perhaps even...
Process event capture as a CEP application?
For an interesting read of a BPM perspective on the importance of events, check out Roeland Loggen's blog entry titled "4 reasons to capture...
Track and Trace: RFID
I just saw this article on applications for RFID (those nifty radio-based micro identity chips) from a major ERP vendor's perspective. The relevant categories...
Semantic Technologies and CEP (1): Intro
The Semantic Technology Conference 2007 was an interesting event (even including the update on rule standards given by your erstwhile TIBCO rep). So...