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IBM acquires another one

The consolidation spree has not yet stopped. A week ago IBM announced the acquisition of AptSoft. What is the driver behind this acquisition?.

AptSoft platform provides a Complex Event Processing (CEP) design and execution engine to address real-time, event-driven applications characterized by the ability to detect patterns of events occurring over different time periods across the extended enterprise IT infrastructure and responding by intelligently orchestrating system and human activities.

What are some of the characteristics of these applications
* They are driven by the occurrence of key events or patterns of events
* They are agnostic to the time and order of events or patterns
* They are Non-linear i.e an event occurrence and its responses are unpredictable and vary by each occurence
* They are dynamic, meaning the underlying business processing logic changes often.

Typical applications range from online retailers to fraud detection to anti mony laundering systems.

An interesting point in this is the application of this technology into your ODS and DW implementations. Now with an SOA ability to watch the data flow across the operational systems and interrogate the ODS with pattern searches dynamically, an new dimension to operational reporting is possible.

Another area where this application will provide enterprise data integration a boost is CRM.

While all of this is possible in AptSoft today, IBM's vision for the future of this integration remains to be seen. Will DB2 in a future generation have event (SOA) driven data warehouses? we do not know the answer today but it is a possibility.

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