Gain Capital's Selection of CEP and "Whiteboard Programming"
In the late 90's, visual programming was The Next Big Thing. Instead of writing millions and millions of lines of incomprehensible computer instructions, visual programming tools promised a world where you could "paint" applications using high-level objects. Visual programming promised...
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A Man’s Undercover Mission into the World of Women Leaders
Recently, I attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the gathering of 2,500 CEOs, heads of state, and visionaries from the arts. At Davos, I saw Chinese vice premier Li Keqiang, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, met Miss Universe, and...
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CEP Innovation Goes Global: Announcing the StreamBase Component Exchange (SBX)
As the use of StreamBase continues to expand, our customers have asked us to help them access other StreamBase developers in order to facilitate innovation and tap the power of the growing StreamBase community. So today StreamBase announced the StreamBase...
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What Does the Sybase / Aleri Acquisition Mean?
Today, Sybase announced they have acquired the CEP vendor Aleri. This news comes the week after StreamBase CEP was named as one of the 26 most innovative technologies in the world by the World Economic Forum at Davos. What does...
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What is Event Processing (CEP)?
The World Economic Forum at Davos has chosen event processing (or CEP) as one of the 26 most innovative technologies to impact the future of business and society. Despite the growing importance of event processing, it's still new to many....
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Prediction #9: Event processing will Yield a Great New Software Powerhouse
The ninth and final prediction for event processing is that the processing of moving information will yield a great independent software company. While it's nice that Time Magazine declared event processing is a technology that will "change your life," and...
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Prediction #8: Open Source CEP Won't Impact the Market, But Open Source Will
Although event processing platforms is robust and proven, there is still constant innovation in the space. Although the efforts of open source projects Esper and Cayuga are admirable they both miss the importance of simplicity through graphical event languages and...
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Prediction #7: Stream-Based Platforms will Continue to Lead a Siege Against the $15B Data-Base Market
It’s flattering that Entrepreneur / VentureBeat chose StreamBase as one of the technologies that will continue to lead a siege against the $15 billlion database market, but the truth is that the markets are independent. Event-based platforms are about real-time...
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Prediction #6: A New Event-Based Software Stack will Emerge
Just because the traditional stack vendors aren't players in event processing, that doesn't mean there isn't a complete software solution required for event processing. The new event processing stack has elements that the big stack vendors don't want you to...
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Prediction #5: Software Stacks will Continue to Miss the Mark
Rupert Murdoch said: “The world is changing fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.” This is certainly true in the technology space - big companies can innovate, if they stay small. In...
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