About the Complex Event Processing Interest Resource Site

CEP-interest.com is an educational site for the growing field of event processing technologies, which includes complex event processing (CEP), event stream processing (ESP), business activity monitoring (BAM), event data management (or data stream management, aka DSM).  Architecturally this site explores event driven architecture (EDA), its relationship with service oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM), and business intelligence (BI).

That's a lot of alphabet soup mess to unravel!  That's why this micro site was necessary.  Fast growing software markets tend to get so littered with confusion and noise that it's hard to figure out what's marketing hype and what's reality;  the goal of this site is to separate the reality from the hype, and focus on the reality.

CEP-interest.com was originally launched as eventstreamprocessing.com in 2005;  two years ago the industry didn't even agree on what to call this new technology.  Since then, a group of software vendors have organized and created the event processing technology society (EPTS), in an effort to agree on terminology (we published the first event processing glossary in 2006), promote use cases for event processing, and agree on reference architecture definitions, and, eventually, on standards.

This site has resources about event processing (EP) technology, which includes CEP, BAM, and DSM, use case descriptions of the technology at work, industry trends, academic research, news, analyst opinion, and information about the commercial software providers of event processing technology.. 

The site is created by Mark Palmer, vice president and general manager of Progress Software's Apama Division.  As a software vendor I clearly have a vested interest in the adoption of event processing, but, as I think you'll see the goal of this site is not to promote my own company's interests;  the goal is to education.  For example, use cases, new, articles from all event processing vendors (not just Apama) are posted and highlighted here.    

For more background, visit John Bates' publications page or Mark Palmer's publications page.