vincent
08-18-2008 04:54 PM
A few BI-related posts show how CEP and CEP-related thinking is starting to trickle into conventional thinking on Business Intelligence.
First off, Intelligent Enterprise reports on some solutions to the problems of using data warehouses for real-time BI. Note that the solutions offered include Event Stream Processing (although why Forrester references ESP instead of CEP is a mystery only known to the analyst who authored this report - unless there is an expectation that just simple streamed correlations can be done in real-time analytics?) [*1].
Secondly,* Jerry Held relates in 2 articles how cloud computing will �save the day� for BI. In a nutshell, Jerry�s hypothesis is that a lack of cheap distributed computing resources are what is holding back BI, and clouds of massively parallel operations on huge datasets will be BI�s saviours. Jerry, methinks, is ahead of his time, as I can�t see data warehouses migrating to the clouds without large doses of security provisions and even cheaper bandwidth. But certainly the idea of highly parallel and scalable event+data processing operations is here today�
Notes:
[1] IE also suggests �informational fabric� for real-time BI. This is �the real-time in memory, distributed caching infrastructure embedded in a service-oriented architecture or enterprise service bus for analytic and transactional apps.� This is also CEP-relevant - the TIBCO BusinessEvents CEP platform includes such a data grid.