vincent
09-20-2008 10:27 PM
So “Event Processing Week” is over. We had 2 days of Gartner Event Processing conference, 2 days of Event Processing Technical Society, and a last day covering EPTS Business and Adrian Paschke’s DoReMePat EU R&D Project submission. Next year will likely see Gartner move their EP event alongside their
AADI summit (a good move) in Dec09, and EPTS will possibly convene at
DEBS09 in Vanderbilt in Jul09.
Observations?
- There were a few presentations that made it appear that CEP = continuous query languages. Sorry folks, thats not the case, and hybrid approaches are the future.
- Roy Schulte made a key comment: we need to make business decisions faster and better. If nothing else, Gartner should be congratulated for supporting EPTS and supporting the industry in this way.
- Event Processing is not slowing down in its adoption. Expect the high rate of new announcements from the industry to continue. Expect new players to join in from the specialist BI, BAM, BPM, middleware, DB vendors.
- There are still topics to be explored - event provenance and modeling, for example.
- A decent Event Processing taxonomy is still needed. Why should anyone think that “EP” was any different from processing events in BPM, for example? Complex “Event Processing” is as good a term as “Complex Event” Processing, and indeed makes it clear that we are solving non-trivial problems. Businesses *know* they have complex event-related problems to solve.
TIBCO will be helping charter the EPTS working groups on reference architectures and standards - its going to be a busy year!
Notes: other articles and blogs covering Gartner and EPTS included:
- Brenda’s Business Driven Architect covered EPTS days 1 and 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d.
- Seth Grimes’ Intelligent Enterprise article on Reuters News processing from the Gartner EPS.
- Doug Henschen, also on Intelligent Enterprise, covers Dashboards, Decisions and Wall Street from Gartner EPS.
- Opher at IBM covered Gartner and EPTS .
- Louis at Apama seemed to be amazed that vendors actually spoke to each other! (Its not “war”, Louis, just features, functions and benefits!)
- Mark at Streambase simply referred thoughts about Gartner to Marc at Citi / Magmasystems. Marc blogged a few thoughts on Gartner, but no doubt was distracted by other stuff going on in his industry.
- Colin Clark, an ex-CEP industry person, covered Gartner days 1 and 2. Interestingly, Colin blames the lack of attendance at the vendors’ door for not selling themselves as CEP Platforms. But vendor offerings are not (as per normal) discussed in the Gartner event advertising. But if he knows anyone who needs a real, distributed, multi-type CEP Platform he should get in touch!
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