There has been a shift taking place in analytics for years now. Where before data was collated, catalogued and mined today it’s reacted upon in real-time and in-stream. Technology is allowing us to harness big data and understand it in milliseconds but will this quest for speed be your ultimate undoing ?
Take Complex Event Processing. The goal of CEP is to identify meaningful events (such as opportunities or threats) and respond to them as quickly as possible. Large software companies such as TIBCO and Software AG are making a big play in this space right now with acquisitions aplomb and Software AG’s own Ivo Totev states that “CEP is an important capability helping customers detect important events and information that are critical to fast and accurate business decisions.”
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