Recently I encountered two potential clients, in the midst of selecting business rules support software for high volume transaction processing, who were actively considering a continuous event processing (CEP) platform as an alternative to a BRMS. Given that business stewardship of their business rules (as opposed to rules managed exclusively by their IT department) was a goal of both projects - were they right to consider CEP? I do not think so.

Occasionally the event processing requirements will mandate the sophistication of a CEP, but frequently they do not. In the latter cases a BRMS is a better solution. Find our what happened to the project who chose the CEP platform. Read More...

Tags: CEP, Cautionary Tale, Tools, Business Rules

I was recently heard of a tragic case of a company that lost their business logic in a certain domain. This sounds incredible, but it can happen. How could you avoid the same happening to you? Read More...

Tags: Cautionary Tale, Business Rules