Complex Event Processing and SOA: a “beautiful thing”?

by Joe McKendrick, ZDNet, 01-04-2008The drums keep beating louder for the impending marriage of SOA with Event Driven Architecture and Complex Event Processing. This is top of the news for many analysts, and something IBM, Oracle, and other vendors are positioning future offerings around. Is this the year when organizations will start linking SOA efforts closely to real-time processes?IBM WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo recently said that he sees the SOA-EDA-CEP marriage as one of the most pronounced trends to watch in 2008. As Cuomo explained in a recent interview with SearchSOA’s Rich Seeley: “I really believe [event processing is] the next big thing in SOA…. we’re taking it very seriously.” He also indicated that IBM plans announcements in this space over the coming year, adding that “the world of SOA and complex event processing will come together and be a beautiful thing in 2008.” ZDNet vision.