The Many Faces of Real-Time Business Insights
Complex event processing (CEP) is an evolving technology that is being used to automate and improve a myriad of computing processes and applications, from fraud detection to exercise monitors. CEP technologies, combined with big data and realtime analytics, are re-wiring the way that enterprise and consumer applications will operate, and the capabilities they can provide. The potential applications and business cases for CEP are both widespread and diverse.

Read these featured articles and more in Issue One:

Business Strategies:Chris Taylor, of Tibco Software, shows readers how Caesars Entertainment keeps track of thousands of customers at over 50 casinos and hotels with CEP, collecting data on each customer's behaviors and transactions to personalize customer experiences and reward big-spending and loyal customers in real time.

Frontline:Nenad Stojanovic, PhD, of the Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, explains a leading edge approach to personalizing content called Adaptive Augmented Reality (A2R) which adapts content in real-time to each individual's behavioural cues.

Tools and Tactics:Chris Bird, Principal Consultant at MomentumSI, explains the uses of both in-stream and out-of-band models for event detection in the analysis of ongoing transactions.

On the Horizon:Published author Phil Windley, PhD and CTO at Kynetx, discusses the coming of the "trillion-node networks" of computing devices and programmable chips embedded into every conceivable product and device, thus adding intelligence and automation to even the simplest tasks - such as calling a waiter to rell a class of water.

Event Processing in Practice Issue 1