A Short History of Complex Event Processing Part 3: the formative years

by David Luckham

In “A Short History, Part 2″ we left off our story of CEP at a period of “hard times” for the vendors of CEP products during the years 2000 to 2007. This was the first of the four stages of Complex Event Processing.  It was the take-off stage for CEP.  Figure 1 in the article shows the stages. The vendors were struggling to convince the one market that understood event processing, the stock trading and related financial services market, that their products could make a profitable difference. And, at the same time these vendors were also wandering in the wilderness searching for potential new markets and trying to educate them about the benefits of event processing.  A Short History of CEP part 3.