by Eric Knorr, InfoWorld.com
So many vendors have jumped on the cloud computing bandwagon, the phrase already risks jumping the shark. The problem is that “cloud computing” has two distinctly different meanings: The use of commercial Internet-based services, and the architecture for building and deploying such services.
InfoWorld has adopted the former definition. Last April we boiled [...]

by K. Mani Chandy and Michael Olson
California Institute of Technology
Event-driven applications that are constructed as compositions of Web applications offer significant benefits. Just as mashups compose Web services to create added value, so too can compositions of event-driven applications create added value.
This article first reviews concepts about event driven applications, sense & respond systems, and [...]

by Brian Albright, RFID Update
Researchers at Radboud University in The Netherlands were able to monitor the body temperature of participants at the world’s largest marching event using RFID technology. Volunteer participants in the annual Four Days Marches of Nijmegen swallowed an RFID-based temperature sensor that measured their internal temperature and helped researchers identify potential [...]

Episode six of The Complex Events Podcast is now online, brought to you by Voices in Business and sponsored by BEA Systems. Today’s show features an interview with David Luckham, Research Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) at Stanford University.
Professor Luckham is often referred to as “the Father of CEP”. He has held faculty and invited [...]

by Tom Lubinski, SL Corporation.
Abstract – Business Activity Monitoring Applications are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated. Much can be learned about the analysis and visualization of real-time data from comparisons with previous generations of process monitoring and telemetry systems. While there are similarities, there are also significant differences in the technology involved in the handling [...]

reported by Joe McKendrick, ZDNet
This week, a report out of the Financial Times (cited here in the LA Times) said that a bug used in the computer models used by analysts at Moody’s Investors Service caused Moody’s to award “incorrect triple-A ratings to billions of dollars worth of a type of complex debt product.” The [...]

Big Blue gets into BPM, while trying to mix social networking with SOA. – Apr 8, 2008 – by Andy Dornan, NetworkComputing.com
Think complex event processing sounds too complex? IBM can help. It has renamed the technology business event processing in one of several announcements it’s making at Impact, its annual SOA conference that starts today.
Though [...]

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 [...]

by Linda Tucci,13/02/2008, SearchCIO.com
Process improvement touches many parts of an organisation — from infrastructure and business strategy to organisational redesign — which means missteps can abound. A panel of been-there, done-thats at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit last week in Las Vegas offered practical advice on how to avoid common risks.
The highest correlation between [...]

by Rich Seeley, 12 Feb 2008, SearchSOA.com
Extreme transaction processing (XTP) is being added to complex event processing (CEP) in service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations for the financial services industry, explains David Chappell, vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle Corp. Matching XTP technology is acquired from Tangersol Coherence in March 2007 with the [...]