BEA Event-driven application server

I have spent the last three days at the Adobe MAX developer and designer conference in Chicago. In the sponsor exhibition pavilion I visited the BEA booth and was surprised to see BEA's a real-time application server for complex event processing (CEP) on offer. I didn't see a demo of the product, but I talked with the BEA reps and came away with the impression that they have a very interesting product offering.

CEP applications have a relatively narrow market at the moment, but as more data flows through critical real-time systems, CEP looks to play a more important role in the world of enterprise IT. CEP already plays a critical role in areas like stock trading analysis. I expect to see big ecommerce sites and healh care companies adpot CEP to manage analysis for large scale deployments. Very large scale enterprise search deployments could also benefit from CEP by using real-time anaylitcs on search transactions to manage search system optimization.