Analysts shoe-horning CEP?
Posted by Paul Vincent
Interesting to read on David Luckham’s site that according to the Gartner’s “Application Infrastructure and Middleware” report this sector now covers complex event processing, alongside middleware, SOA, and BPM. Per the ADT article,
“Emerging technology areas within AIM include extreme transaction processing (XTP) platforms and complex event processing, according to the report. In addition, the BPMS segment is continuing to grow because it can support cost-cutting measures.”
So there you go. CEP (technology) is now a mainstream application infrastructure component!
The angle of the ADT article was that “middleware sales were to hit the brakes” (declined 0.8% in 2009), whereas interestingly EBizQ reported on the more optimistic angle that growth in 2008 had been 7%. Meanwhile ITJungle played it down the middle with the headline “middleware sales slipping but could rebound”, and quoted Gartner as saying:
“Nonetheless we are witnessing vibrant activity in emerging technology areas, such as extreme transaction processing platforms and complex event processing, which are stimulating the growth of highly specialized and innovative vendors that will surely gain visibility in the near future.”
OK, so maybe CEP is also specialized and innovative…
Complex Event Processing (CEP), Trends | 11 May 2009 |
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By Tim Bass, May 11, 2009 @ 13:08
Hi Paul,
Outside of the software vendor community and their ecosystem, Garter is not well regarded as credible. For example, when I worked as a consultant for the DoD for years, we did not even consider Garter reports credible and independent enough for a standard technology due-diligence process.
The Japanese just laugh when we talk Gartner reporting. Being the genius pragmaticans of Japan, the Japanese prefer walking on the operation floor of a customer reference versus replying on junk bonds promoted by conflicted analysts.
Instead of posting hyperbola by analysts who are paid by software vendors as “consultants” and who are also “wined and dined” for influence, it would be more helpful to post use cases from real customers.
TIBCO has been remarkable silent regarding customer use cases for more than a year. And… none of that “it is a secret, we can’t tell you blah blah”
Cheers.
By Paul Vincent, May 11, 2009 @ 14:59
Hi Tim: Yes its interesting how successful software analysts are. I’m sure quite a few end-users buy their services… its not all funded by the software vendors!
On use cases and customer stories: ah yes, actually I’m helping on-site at a new one right now, but its more high performance “event processing” (aka routing, applying SLA rules, KPI measuring, etc) than CEP. Sadly, its not public domain yet. As Opher would say: “more later”…
Cheers