LONDON – England – The new Heathrow Terminal 5 which opened three days ago has gone down as a huge success with passengers and staff.
“Terminal 5 has incorporated a revolutionary technique in processing passenger luggage and speeding up the process of boarding a plane.” “It is quite easy, passengers simply drop their bags off and [...]

EPTS – the Event Processing Technical Society – is going to be officially launched in late May or early June (exact date – TBD). EPTS has existed as an informal society for the last two years, holding three Event Processing Symposiums to date; for details see:

1st Workshop on Event Processing – Presentations
2nd Workshop on [...]

by Doug Henschen, in Intelligent Enterprise, March 12, 2008
“Follow the money.” This approach to investigation, applied by criminal prosecutors going back before Eliot Ness and made famous as a line in the movie “All the President’s Men,” is exactly how soon-to-be-ex New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was tied to a high-end prostitution ring. In this [...]

PRWeb, March 7, 2008
DataComplex today announced the opening of its EPCenter, the first online application for “knowledge workers” to creating complex event processing(CEP) solutions. CEP is a software tool for performing sophisticated analysis of data as its happening, finding meaningful patterns, and responding automatically. By using the EPCenter the people that manage a businesses process [...]

Risk and Fraud Management gain in importance in the financial sector – Real-time control from SENACTIVE guarantees a solution
Vienna, 6 March 2008. The financial sector is going to change dramatically. Restrictive laws and growing volatility of financial markets but also the big chances and risks of high numbers of transactions show an enhanced demand of active risk management. [...]

by: Dave Chappell, Feb. 26, 2008 , websphere journal
Across financial services firms we have been seeing a new set of business priorities. There are the “grow the business” priorities that are primarily centered around things like improving customer intimacy and increasing competitive differentiation. There are also ongoing issues of compliance to regulation and risk [...]