My old friend Paul Vincent had an interesting post on Complex Event Processing - Aberdeen on Predictive Analytics & BI => CEP - in which he talked about some of the drivers for BI sounding a lot like complex event processing drivers/scenarios.

There is certainly event correlation in these examples but there is also a need to decide effectively - not just to process the event but to decide how to act appropriately. While you could bundle that in with CEP, many decisions (such as what makes a good cross-sell for this customer) might also be used in process-centric situations as well as event-centric ones. Externalizing and managing these decisions as distinct assets would therefore make sense.

I was going to post it as a comment but the Tibco blog apparently can’t add up and thinks that 5 + 10 <> 15.

Related posts:

1. Decisions matter to Complex Event Processing
2. Decision Services, Decision Agents and Event Processing
3. Complex Event Processing is not about BI
4. Live from IMPACT - Business Event Processing
5. Book mentioned on TIBCO blog