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 [...]

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 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 [...]

by Joe McKendrick, ZDNet, 01-04-2008The drums keep beating louder for the impending marriage of SOA with Event Driven Architecture and Complex Event Processing. This is top of the news for many analysts, and something IBM, Oracle, and other vendors are positioning future offerings around. Is this the year when organizations will start linking SOA efforts [...]

Mapping Clouds of SOA- and Business-related Events for an Enterprise Cockpit in a Java-based Environment by Daniel Jobst and Gerald Preissler,
ABSTRACT This paper is about business process management (BPM) and business activity monitoring (BAM) using event processing. We will show why the management of business processes is important for all further steps towards an event-driven [...]

BEA announcement
All businesses are event-driven – and so is the entire world! Event-Driven SOA addresses all the capabilities needed to respond to the real-time business dynamics outlined above. Event-Driven SOA combines SOA’s request-response and EDA’s (Event-Driven Architecture) event publish-subscribe paradigms. Supporting events as services within SOA allows designers to map the application design to the [...]

by David Luckham
Part 1
Approaches to designing and managing information systems have proliferated over the past 15 years, so much so that the space of technical concepts has become quite confusing. There is the SOA arena (service oriented architectures), the BPM arena (business process management), and more recent arrivals in the area of event processing (EP) [...]

TIBCO Businessworks, TIBCO BusinessEvents to Streamline Processes and Improve Efficiency to Help Ensure a High-Level of Personalized Customer ServiceParis, March 13, 2007 – TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that AIR FRANCE KLM, Europe’s largest airline group, has chosen TIBCO’s software as its enterprise backbone to integrate disparate IT assets under one open, [...]