by Alan Lundberg, senior product marketing manager,TIBCO. No one would argue that the state of business today isn’t highly complex, particularly where information systems are concerned; and few would argue that complexity adds business value. A closer look, however, reveals that part of the problem arises from data integration challenges and an overabundance of data. [...]

by John Bates, Vice President Apama Products, Progress Software. Algorithmic trading in FX (foreign exchange) is still in the early stages of growth; however there is a growing adoption of algorithmic techniques. A major factor in FX is that each firm has different requirements, so rather than purchasing pre-built ‘black boxes’ – offering packaged trading [...]

by Peter Pietzuch • Imperial College London, Gero Mühl • Berlin University of Technology, Ludger Fiege • Siemens Corporate Technology. Events and messaging have been in use in industry for years. With the advent of service-oriented and event-driven architectures, however, the eventing paradigm becomes a central building block of business IT. To support event-based systems’ [...]