What’s happening in CEP?

by Philip Howard, Director of Research – Technology, Bloor Research
02-18-2008, Bloor Research © 2008
The complex event processing (CEP) market is evolving. It has got beyond the stage where people are worried about what to call it: should it be called CEP, ESP (event stream processing) or just plain event processing? Indeed EPTS (the event processing technical society) will shortly be releasing an official glossary of terms.

That isn’t to say there isn’t still debate. For example, the EPTS will be defining an event as “something that happens” which is fine but raises the question of whether when it happens is relevant: is this part of the event or metadata about the event? Read and comment at it-director.com.