I am not sure that take up by the BI vendors is necessarily a measure of CEP success. CEP involves decision automation or decision management, not decision support. As such, BI vendors have little or nothing to say.
JT
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Good coverage of CEP, but CEP is not = BI
Nice article about CEP and the uptake of the technology, although I took some issue with the view that the CEP's advancement is a function of its use as BI. Here's the post / article on the event processing blog
- Mark Palmer, General Manager, Apama division of Progress software (Apama is one of the leading commercial CEP software vendors)
EPTS
EPTS is still in phases of being formalized. It has connected to standard organizations - cooperating with OMG on the upcoming RFP on meta-modeling in event processing; OASIS representative has participated in the last meeting, and WS-Notification will be presented and discussed in the coming EPTS meeting.
Opher Etzion, IBM
EPTS chair
CEP is a technology not a solution
CEP is an enabling technology - a computing paradigm. It will touch on all areas of computing, and end up as pervasive as database technology.
So I've no doubt that BI vendors will use CEP. So will algorithmic trading solutions, intrusion detection, fraud detection, BAM, etc. In fact, many solutions today already do. Many of the vendors you listed have widely diverse solutions that in many cases don't compete with each other - that would be a bit like assuming that any vendor that uses a database must compete with every other vendor that also uses a database.
So if CEP is still on the launch pad with regard to BI vendors, that's really a matter for BI vendors to understand how to use CEP technology. It is definitely not true for other solution areas - go check out CEP in Algorithmic Trading solutions :-)
Brian Connell
CTO, WestGlobal