Intelligent Business Process Management Suites (iBPMS) – The Next-Generation BPM for a Big Data World

I had a talk at ECSA 2014 in Vienna: The Next-Generation BPM for a Big Data World: Intelligent Business Process Management Suites (iBPMS), sometimes also abbreviated iBPM. I want to share the slides with you. The slides include an example how to implement iBPMS easily with the TIBCO middleware stack: TIBCO AMX BPM + BusinessWorks + StreamBase + Tibbr.
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Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) Revisited in 2014

This slide deck revisits Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and gives an overview about the status quo. Fortunately, EIPs offer more possibilities than just be used for modelling integration problems in a standardized way. Several frameworks and tools already implement these patterns. The developer does not have to implement EIPs on his own. Therefore, the end of the slide deck shows different frameworks and tools available, which can be used for modelling and implementing complex integration scenarios by using the EIPs.
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Fundamentals of Stream Processing (IBM InfoSphere Streams, TIBCO StreamBase, Apache Storm) – Book Review

Internet of things, cloud and mobile are the major drivers for stream processing. Use cases are network monitoring, intelligent surveillance, but also less technical things such as inventory management or fraud detection. The book helps a lot to get a basic understanding about history, concepts and patterns of the stream processing paradigm.
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Java / JVM – When to use Multicast (e.g. Tibco Rendevous) instead of Point-to-Point Messaging (JMS Implementations)

Several solutions are available in the Java / JVM environment for messaging. All have in common that they exist for many years and still do its job in mission critical systems: Sending remote messages fast and reliable. There exist two different concepts which compete against each other for enterprise messaging solutions. This article describes and compares Point-to-Point (e.g. ActiveMQ) and Multicast (e.g. Tibco Rendevous) messaging to answer the question when to use which one. Although both solutions are available for many years now, this question is still very important – also for new software!
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