Getting Real about Doing Business in Real Time

We all know that the business wants IT to reflect the state of the business in as close to real-time as possible. We also know that accomplishing that means a lot of investments in custom programming, which is why we see so few real-time systems outside the financial services sector.

But as IT increasingly becomes a strategic part of the business, it becomes apparent that the need for real-time applications is growing. To satisfy this need, we’re starting to see the emergence of frameworks for complex events processing (CEP). ...