These two articles compare pairs of CEP products and were published by Infoworld. These articles were recently topics of discussion in the eGroups and seem to support the need for meaningful performance and ease of use benchmarks in event processing. The CEP Website does not endorse or support the opinions in these articles. They [...]

Today’s business applications rarely live in isolation. They need to be connected in order to create an integrated solution from which an organization can derive value. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) are two different paradigms that address complex integration challenges. How can organizations choose the better approach to meet their needs? Actually they [...]

A new class of event-driven applications is emerging to address business challenges in fraud prevention, risk management, compliance verification, customer service, customer acquisition, cross-sell and more.
These applications involve processes that are typically unpredictably non-linear (their timing and sequence cannot be defined in advance), dynamic (their characteristics change quite frequently), and continuously influenced by outside events [...]

by David Luckham
Some of you may be wondering why there are two flavors of event processing, ESP and CEP. Well, I’ve been writing various versions of an article about this for the past eighteen months. And of course, the ESP tools have been changing as I dallied. A Mr. Robert Mitchell phoned me [...]