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Road Map: The Business Intelligence Playbook
In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...

An Empowered Report: High-Impact Technologies That You Should Track
Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same...
A SWOT Analysis Of APM And BTM Software Vendors
IT and business services have grown exponentially in size, diversity, and complexity over the past few years. The complexity of many transactional business services has reached a point where the...
Advanced Analytics Will Drive Growth To $14 Billion By 2014
Business intelligence (BI) software is the tip of the application software pyramid. Pure functionality, no matter how sophisticated, is no longer sufficient to successfully support the changing...
The Fledgling CEP Platform Market Is Vibrant, Competitive, And Dynamic
Forrester evaluated nine complex event processing (CEP) platforms using 114 criteria and found Progress Software and Aleri to be standout Leaders because of their top scores in the event processing...
Event-Driven Solution Lowers Costs While Promoting Happy Travelers
Processing lost bags costs airlines a lot of money: more than $1,200 per thousand passengers, not to mention the inconvenience to passengers. Thus, airlines are highly motivated to apply new...
Some recent buzz in the industry would have you believe that SOA is dead, but that just isn't the case — in fact, its use and influence are still growing. Stories of less-than-successful...
Doing SOA Right Opens The Door To A Much Bigger Architecture Vision
Sparked by a tinderbox of economic jitters and technology backlash, a recent thread of industry discussion cries out, "SOA is dead!" Although many have had fun with the discussion, it is in fact...
This workbook discusses the impact of event processing capability on real-time operational intelligence. Tools are beginning to appear that provide this capability, and this can have a significant...
Understand The Sweet Spots Of Each To Make An Informed Decision
How can you choose between investing in a business rules platform and a complex event processing (CEP) platform? The answer is not as easy as saying "a business rules platform is for rules" and "CEP...
EP+GPS+GPRS+Web Services Enables A Multiagency Solution To A Pressing Social/Political Issue At 1/10 The Cost
Violencia de género (gender violence, where males most often hurt but sometimes even kill their female partners) is a significant social and, therefore, political problem in Spain and many other...
Once developers have implemented and stabilized applications in a production environment, the applications are placed in "maintenance mode"; thereafter, many receive little scrutiny. As time passes,...
A Case Study Illustrating The Practicalities Of Introducing CEP
Robert Almgren is a co-founder of Quantitative Brokers, a company that is extending the reach of complex event processing (CEP) from its conventional uses in the equity sector into non-equity...
Many Forms Of Event Processing Are Becoming Hot; Guide Your Team By Understanding Them
IT professionals — and increasingly business users, as well — commonly use terms such as event processing, business event management, complex event processing, and various other similar...
A Case Study On Complex Event Processing At ActiveCare Network
ActiveCare Network uses complex event processing (CEP) to revolutionize basic business processes and the provision of chronic healthcare treatment. Among the benefits are improved patient service,...
A Case Study From A North American Proprietary Trading Firm
In financial markets, the proprietary trading environment has changed significantly over the past 20 years. As we will show in this case study from a North American proprietary trading firm, time is...
Events Are A Hot Topic; Guide Your Team By Defining Them
Event processing, business event processing, complex event processing, and various other similar terms are coming into common use by IT professionals and even by business users. Confusion about what...
A Case Study Of A European Mobile Telecommunications Company
Telecommunications companies confront a high volume of inbound calls that deal with many different topics and problems. It is important for these companies to have valuable interactions with their...
Events are showing up in more places that matter to application developers. They occur in many important new usage scenarios such as program-based trading and are relevant to many IT roles, including...
Improving business processes — whether manual or automated — requires the active participation and buy-in of employees and managers at many different levels within an enterprise. Business...