vincent
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:15:31 +0000
Whilst at DAMA last week I managed to miss the Teradata talk on �active data warehouses�. Luckily James Taylor blogged comprehensively on the talk, and although it seems Teradata declined to make the presentation available to attendees, I�m guessing it was pretty much the same as this one (�Google is your friend�/�Time to Yahoooo�, etc).
Now, DAMA is targeted at Data Professionals, many of whom also have to deal with data warehouses to store longer term data for analysis and analytics. Yet here is a highly respected DW company, who sells mostly in the DW space, advocating an event-driven approach to analysing your data. Fascinating! Furthermore, they presented �event-driven� use cases (albeit old ones) such as real-time event processing for the airline industry that we have already seen adopt CEP. But then, the use of an ESB, event-store, and rule-engine as a DIY CEP engine is a perfectly valid approach to event processing (cost notwithstanding) versus an off-the-shelf CEP engine (not mentioning any names of course).
At the same time, we see a similar development in the BI space as indicated by this IntelligentEnterprise comment on BI Emerging Technologies. The key term here is �in-memory analytics� although some of the other �emerging technologies� may also seem familiar (namely: advanced visualization - cue TIBCO Spotfire - and cloud computing - although in this case they refer to hardware clouds rather than event clouds).