Monthly Archives: June 2008

There’s some ongoing discussions in blogland as a result of a recent blog posting here by my good friend Tim Bass.  In his post, he applauds the use of analytics to the point of damning the current crop of CEP vendors for … Continue reading

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Next week, I’m attending the DEBS 2008 conference in Rome. The conference is a great occasion for people from the academic and industrial worlds to mix and share ideas. Unfortunately, I’ll be cutting my attendance short due to customer commitments, … Continue reading

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A surprisingly interesting question; are we talking about a) the processing of complex events or b) the complex processing of events? Both possibilities lead to interesting follow on questions such as what is a complex event? or what constitutes complex … Continue reading

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In our work with IT intensive enterprises, we observe different approaches to the implementation of IT and service monitoring. These range from a fragmented model dependent on multiple and effectively isolated ‘point’ solutions through to highly unified BPM (Business Process … Continue reading

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In many organizations, despite knowing what everyone is doing, finding out what’s actually going on can be next or nigh impossible. Operators are delivered notifications about everything that happens, good and bad, and they end up in a fog of … Continue reading

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Last week, I visited a Tier 1 European Telco, and spent some time with their Technical Operations director. We discussed the growing trend towards outsourcing, and in particular the difficulty that executives have in placing their trust in an external … Continue reading

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The Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) has been officially launched, and the website is at http://www.ep-ts.com. A lot of credit has to go to Opher Etzion (http://epthinking.blogspot.com/) for being the main driving force and organizer behind the scenes, but there … Continue reading

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I am delighted to announce the launch of our new BAM Blog. I hope over the coming weeks and months that you find it an excellent resource for cutting edge information and debate on the developments of Business Activity Monitoring. … Continue reading

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