Tim Bass
08-26-2008 08:04 AM
I often get asked that if the current self-decribed CEP vendors are not doing “real CEP,” in my opinon, who are the vendors in the CEP space?

At the moment, event correlation and event analysis*is Gartner’s closest*magic quadrant (MQ)* that relates directly to complex event processing (and event processing in general).****


A number of our*friends and colleagues*would like to position CEP as BRE, BRMS, BPM, SOA, algo trading and just about every other technology under the sun, except event correlation!

In a nutshell, the state-of-the-state of CEP/EP is that a*number of firms in the software industry have found some “uncharted magic quadrant waters” and are positioning themselves to be “chart worthy”. Instead of competing head on with the experienced players*(event correlation and analysis) that*have been in the event processing field for many years.***

As I have mentioned a few times here on The CEP Blog, if the current generation self-described CEP engines were leading the industry in event correlation and analysis (CEP’s core technology domain) they would be on*Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis.



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