CEP and analytics
I always thought CEP was about analytics but most vendors didn't; now it turns out that there a few who agree with me
Pervasiveness and micro-decisions
IBM's information-led transformation is all about making optimal use of information
The future of data mining
IBM's recent announcement that it is to acquire SPSS not only has implications in terms of the completeness of IBM's analytics offering but it also has ramifications for the future of data mining...
Oracle buys GoldenGate
Oracle has today announced that it is to acquire GoldenGate Software. Somewhat surprisingly, many of the people that I have mentioned GoldenGate to in the past, both users and vendors, have never...
Events and other things
The advent of IBM's System S (which I shall discuss in more detail in a subsequent article) raises interesting questions about the nature of event and stream-based processing. The reason for this...
Aleri merges with Coral8
Aleri has merged with Coral8, although since it is arguable that there is no such thing as a merger—this being just a friendly name for a takeover—and as the new company will be trading...
Speculation, Streams, Warehousing and the X-Men
I recently wrote (see IBM, BEP and CEP) about IBM's release of InfoSphere Streams. I reported that rather than referring to this as a complex event processing (CEP) product they are instead calling...
IBM, BEP and CEP
IBM has just held its first annual analyst's conference on what it calls Business Event Processing (BEP). Now, followers of the complex event processing (CEP) market will know that IBM has renamed...
Whatever happened to iSpheres?
Avaya has announced a new CEBP (communications enabled business process) solution. What was formerly iSpheres' Event Processor is part of that solution.