Recently I was talking with some system integrators and customers regarding the rapid adoption of Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines and the range of new and promising uses to bring more agility and control to companies. We quickly agreed that without providing the CEP engine with individual events to feed it, the CEP engine would miss the basic substance to operate efficiently. What would a person be without nerve endings to communicate information to their brain? They would never be alerted to what was happening in the world around them.
In the business world, frequently the places where events emerge most are the databases where business transactions start or finish. CEP engines need this information so they can work. Getting to this information in real-time is often a considerable technical challenge that needs a lot of development investment.
Informatica Change Data Capture (CDC) technology can be the nerve ending of a CEP engine. CDC captures all the transactions that occur in a database with no coding or intrusion. Events can’t slip through CDC, so the CEP engine can be fed in real-time with all the necessary individual events in order to act at its full capacity.
I am thrilled about the Informatica acquisition of Agent Logic, as I believe it will bring companies some new possibilities they never have thought about before.
