Process vs. Decisions
In comments to a recent post concerning the acquisition of Haley Systems by Ruleburst, James Taylor suggested that a “decision-centric” perspective is necessary for business rules to become mainstream....
View ArticleCEP crossing the chasm into BPM by way of BRMS
Complex event processing (CEP) software handles many low-level events to recognize a high-level event that triggers a business process. Since many business processes do not consider low-level data...
View ArticleBehind the CEP curtain – it’s about time, not the cache
TIBCO is the CEP vendor most focused on the market for business rules, as reflected in Paul Vincent’s post here. Although I agree with Paul that rule vendors are not currently offering enough in terms...
View ArticleIn the names of CEP and BPM
Have you heard the one about how to drive BPM people crazy? Ask them the question that drives CEP people crazy! Last fall, at the RuleML conference in Orlando, was the first time I heard a consensus...
View ArticleRule and event-driven business process M&A
On the heels of IBM’s acquisition of Lombardi comes Progress Software’s acquisition of Savvion. The salient similarities are that IBM is adding BPM applications to its middleware stack as is Progress,...
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