Whatever happened to iSpheres?

By: Philip Howard, Director of Research – Technology, Bloor Research.
iSpheres was an event processing vendor along the lines of StreamBase, Coral8 or Progress Apama. However, in the middle of last year it more or less disappeared, its web site went dead, you couldn’t find out any recent details about the company on Google: I assumed it went bust. But it turned out that I was wrong and sometime late last year I discovered that the company had been bought by Avaya.

So, the question was, what would a communications company want with an event processing engine? Well, I actually found out last year but wasn’t in a position to write about it, as Avaya’s new product is only released this week. Read on