Complex Event Processing is too complex!?

Progress Software conducted a study recently to figure out how far companies have gotten in terms of “operational responsiveness” in order to align with customers and verify that we are still in line with the demand.

Looks like THE most hyped topic at the moment is “Business Event Processing”, which is the same thing as Complex Event Processing, but sounds a little softer to the ears of business people (I guess).

Actually I truly believe that a Service Oriented Architecture (if done right) can easily be transformed to a Event Driven Architecture (EDA) and thus deliver a real competitive advantage. In the future IT will be real-time or near real-time (remember the business velocity theme?) , but key is the flexibility in which IT can adapt to new requirements. A well executed SOA is crucial and the foundation that allows all this to happen.

Bottom line: don’t fear the ‘complexity’ of CEP, but start laying the SOA foundation now to become as agile as the business requires it in the future…

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Is SOA really dead ?!

According to Anne Thomas Manes it is - but it is weird to say that the focus was to technical (rather than architectural) and then stating that services is the right way to go now.

Isn't that actually a step back to a technology focused way of seeing it? Isn't SOA the big picture that we're missing?

I agree that many projects fail because of the overall architecture not being consistent. But I do believe that SOA is still the right way to go. We just have to keep in mind that we are just at the beginning of the journey and all this is just now getting (kind of) mature...

In my eyes the creation, integration and publication of services (even in Cloud Computing) can - and should - still be based on an SOA. So maybe the name will change, but the architecture will survive.

In 2009 the economical crisis will force the industry to focus on quick ROI and therefore the projects will get smaller. The 5-year-ahead-planning days are gone. But still SOA can deliver value in these environment and maybe this is even a good thing, as the number of failures will be reduced.

referring to : http://apsblog.burtongroup.com/2009/01/soa-is-dead-long-live-services.html

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SOA Predictions for 2009

InfoQ has published a good article, collecting predictions where SOA will go in 2009:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/12/soa-predictions-2009

I especially like the phrase "SOA Gets Cloudy" - hope it will happen in 2009...

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