Tim Bass
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:49:56 +0000
Fellow blogger Opher Etzion, replies to**
On Elephants and*Analytics*with
On Unicorn,*Professor and Infant.** Opher is kindly giving*us another metaphor to consider, the Infant and the Profession, since we are both big fans of big gentle elephants, babies and our universities.**
Opher and I*agree that Infants are not Professors, and we also agree that CEP is in its Infancy and there is overhype by folks often*implying*CEP is a Professor.*****So it seems we all have a huge elephant in the room with an Infant*Professor*hanging on the end of a wildly swinging Elephant’s trunk!
To*keep*the blogopoints*interesting, I*should point out that with all this*agreement and
Cum By Ya campfire singing, there*are*a couple of things*I do disagree with in Opher’s amusing counterpoint.*
First of all, Opher uses the well know*debate technique of falsely attributing some easily refutable discussion point and then offering a slam dunk counterpoint.** He does this in this clever, but completely inaccurate Opher quote,
*“I [Opher] respectfully disagree with Tim … in his claim that what has been done until today is just hype and hence totally worthless…”
Folks reading my blog*know that I have never said “what has been done until today is … totally worthless.”*** This is a misfortunate misquote.* Shame on you Opher!**
What I said, easily read in the blog,*was that CEP is overhyped and that most of the self-described CEP software on the market today does not live up to the inflated claims we read and hear from CEP software vendors, the analysts and reporters they influence.
The second*counterpoint*that I*find interesting*is Opher’s consistent attempt to*redress the dramatic lack of capability and analytics*in current generation self-described CEP software by repositioning CEP as “intelligent event processing” (IEP) as he*is continues*in
On Intelligent Event Processing.***
Perhaps Opher will be successful in*repositioning the vast majority of the original CEP problem space as IEP.** This is a interesting slippery slope, in my opinion.** The new positioning that Opher is offering is that*when “event processing”*has advanced analytics, it is not CEP*anymore, it*becomes IEP because CEP is really “Simple Event Processing” (SEP) - event processing with little to no analytical capability.
I don’t know about most of our readers, but all this positioning and repositioning to match the capabilities, or lack of capabilities, in the current portfolio of self-described CEP software vendors is fascinating.
Here is the next logical question is:
What is the difference between a “Complex Event” and an “Intelligent Event” ?
This*could get*quite interesting, so stay tuned!
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06-27-2008
