by David Luckham
Several companies have already bundled CEP into larger toolsets or middleware products. Nothing new there! But Phil Howard of Bloor Research has seen fit to single one out in particular, and since he likes it, perhaps this is an indication of the future. Its a small company, iWay which is a subsidiary of [...]

Changing the approach to system operations
by Wayne Greene; Douglas Mackinnon, SOA World
CIOs see operational excellence as the “table stakes” in the high-roller game of IT. Often thought of as the starting point to creating value for the business in this game, businesses use IT for competitive advantage, and the business that is most successful wins. [...]

by Roger Smith,  InformationWeek
The day after the new Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner roiled the financial markets with an uninspiring explanation of how the U.S. government plans to end the financial crisis, InformationWeek caught up with Dr. John Bates, a complex event processing (CEP) industry pioneer and founder of market leader Progress Apama, for a lively [...]

by David Luckham
CEP has come in for some criticism in the Bloggosphere recently. “CEP is just marketing hype”. I predicted some time ago this would happen– and it is quite understandable. The technical principles of CEP[1] have been “fuzzed up” by the marketeers, and some products with little CEP technology have been over-hyped and over-sold. [...]