A snapshot of Aleri and its CEP offerings

Before our discussion, I knew very little about CEP as a field. Morrell and Wootton described CEP as a “means to an end,” and the “end” is Continuous Intelligence. CEP stands in contrast to a data warehouse because CEP is designed to react to real-time conditions, while data warehouses provide a periodic overview of historical information. CEP is useful for detecting changes in trends and new trends and monitoring trends. For example, a government health agency might use CEP to locate flu outbreaks, or a retailer might use CEP to determine when to make a rush order of an item that is suddenly selling more quickly than normal. CEP sifts through the data to extract a trend from the noise and can be used to show both the velocity and the acceleration of a trend...