by Janine Milne, CBR OnLine Progress CTO John Bates discusses in a Q&A session the future of business process management and why buying Savvion was important to company’s strategy. Q: Why did you buy Savvion? A: We did an exhaustive search for a BPM company that would be a perfect fit for us and we [...]
by Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service CEP (complex-event processing) vendor Streambase on Tuesday launched a Web site where customers, developers and partners can download, share and perhaps one day sell components. The new Streambase Component Exchange is stocked with an initial set of items, including an adapter for pulling in Twitter streams, an integration with [...]
Since version 1 of the Glossary of event processing terminology was published nearly two years ago there has been a demand to add additional commonly used terms. This draft of version 2 includes about 20 additional terms, a modest extension of version 1. The draft of the proposed Glossary version 2 in pdf format is [...]
by Elinor Mills, CNET News Peiter Zatko–a respected hacker known as “Mudge”–has been tapped to be a program manager at DARPA, where he will be in charge of funding research designed to help give the U.S. government tools needed to protect against cyberattacks, CNET has learned. Zatko will become a program manager in mid-March within [...]
by John Poulter, ComputerWeekly.com The foiled Christmas Day attempt to blow up a plane over Detroit has once again sparked debate about international security and how data relating to passengers is tracked and managed. Frustratingly, whilst Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the alleged bomber, appeared on several terrorist databases and ‘watch lists’ his status was not elevated [...]