Following the 1st Event processing symposium that IBM hosted in March 2006, and the establishment of three work groups, Oracle hosted the 2nd Event Processing Symposium in November 2006. The third event processing symposium was hosted alongside the Gartner Event Processing Summit in Orlando, September 2007. Seven sessions over three days can be reviewed in [...]

by Kelvin K. Droegemeier, et al.
Each year across the US, mesoscale weather events—flash floods, tornadoes, hail,
strong winds, lightning, and localized winter storms—cause hundreds of deaths, routinely disrupt transportation and commerce, and lead to economic losses
averaging more than US$13 billion. Although mitigating the impacts of such events
would yield enormous economic and societal benefits, research leading to [...]

Oracle Fusion Middleware includes the industry’s first comprehensive, integrated Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) Suite that enables organizations to effectively manage the increasing number of events  generated from IT systems, business processes and physical sensors  such as RFID.

Released in 2006, the Oracle EDA Suite provides a flexible, declarative environment to rapidly build and adapt event-driven applications with components for [...]

Campaigns for complete customer awareness of customer service in real time The goal of international telecommunications companies was to offer their customers individual offers at the moment they contacted the call center or accessed the Web Shop. The effectiveness of customer awareness campaigns is increased through monitoring customer-related information, such as service usage. This makes [...]

ORLANDO, FL, Gartner (News – Alert) Event Processing Summit Sep. 19, 2007
RTI, The Real-Time Middleware Experts, announced today that it has integrated Coral8s Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine with RTIs high-performance messaging, caching and data-visualization infrastructure for real-time applications. With this combined solution, developers can now rapidly create and deploy [...]

BOSTON, MA – September 19, 2007 – AptSoft Corporation today announced it is accepting beta testing candidates for release 5.0 of its award-winning AptSoft Director™ for CEP, a technology platform for the development and execution of a new class of event-driven applications requiring Complex Event Processing (CEP). AptSoft Director for CEP Release 5.0 provides [...]

by Opher Etzion
The third event processing symposium has taken place in Orlando in September 17-19 and was co-located with the first, ground breaking, Gartner Event Processing Summit. Gartner also contributed to the logistics of organizing this EPTS symposium.
Third EPTS workshop summary

Real Time, Integrated Management of Artworks Safety & Security
As a result of a pilot experiment using an event processing technology to run museum operations, the Head of Security & Safety for Museums and Libraries for the Borough of Milan, Dr. Petz, is planning a full scale implementation for the Palazzo Reale museum in Milan.
An event [...]

by James Kobielus, Network World, 08/16/07
Complex event processing has a sleek, shiny, space-age allure. CEP has been blinking on the IT industry’s “next big thing” radar for quite a while, promising business agility through continuous correlation and visualization of multiple event-streams. Event-driven application architectures are becoming more important for modern business, as the volume of [...]

by Doug Henschen
Complex event processing (CEP) software delivers on the promise of real-time insight, but is the technology too green for mainstream success? CEP was once available only to big financial institutions and government agencies that could afford custom development projects. That’s no longer the case, as off-the-shelf products and implementations have proliferated. Intelligent Enterprise [...]