I have been doing some presenting on decision services recently - to SAI in Belgium and at the SOA Symposium - and my old friend Paul Vincent posted about a discussion he and I have been having about the relevance of decision services in an event-driven architecture or Complex Event Processing scenario. Paul makes the [...]

The SOA Symposium started today in the AJAX Stadium in Amsterdam. The opening keynotes were actually in the Stadium itself - we all sat at the halfway line. Thomas Erl and Sandy Carter gave quick intros and I will add some comments later but I could not type so this is just a placeholder have [...]

Thanks to my friends at IDC I got to attend an IDC Breakfast on their predictions for 2008. First up was Henry Morris discussing general economic trends. He pointed out that economic indicators are mixed and that IT buyer confidence is low and IT spending very sensitive to GDP. In particular, Japan , NA and [...]

John Trigg over on the Apama blog had a post today - The Opportunity for Business Intelligence: Is it Evolution or Revolution? - that made me think about Complex Event Processing(CEP) and Decision Mangement.
Many of the posts I see about CEP, like John’s, are trying to compare CEP with BI and so-called Operational BI in [...]