One consistent question we get from outside the CEP market is: what is the difference between a “standard” Business Rules Engine (or BRE) and a (rule-driven) Complex Event Processing engine? This is particularly interesting because a rule-based CEP en
I have been thinking about the response I got from David Campbell to my posting on his CEP article. In his comment David discussed the difference between using a business rules engine in CEP (Complex Event Processing) and using business rules more general
BI stands for Business Intelligence, which to some will sound suspiciously similar to Groucho’s famous comment. But in reality BI is more to do with providing the right “Business Information” to people who need it (i.e. business analysts), and there
[...] Our approach is to define each term independently of any particular implementation, product, or domain of application. So, for example the term event object has popular meanings as a tuple, a vector, a row etc. These are all realizations of events i