SOA Complex Event
Processing Using Mashups
Adding
a unique perspective to
the SOA Consortium’s
SOA & Event
processing day, Bruce
Henderson, Chief
Scientist of Savant,
spoke of the connection
between services, event
processing and mashups.
Bruce shared his thesis
that many major
business, geo-political
and societal problems
arise because we don’t
know enough to avoid
them. Despite swimming
in data from a vast
number of sources, the
inability to relate and
interact with that
information has
organizations operating
out of rear view
mirrors. As Bruce
succinctly stated, “What
we don’t know can hurt
us”.
Supporting
his thesis, Bruce spoke
of three major events,
the dotcom bubble, the
September 11 attacks and
the U.S. housing market
implosion, whose impact
could have been reduced
had the available, yet
scattered, data been
correlated and viewed in
totality. Bruce then
shared his prediction,
based on applying Savant’s
information agility
techniques to publicly
available FDIC reports,
that the US Banking
System faces impending
failures similar to
Northern Rock in the UK.
From
that vivid context,
Bruce walked through the
technical concepts to
relate and correlate
disparate information
via microscale services,
events, event
classification and
metadata decoration, and
rich user interfaces.
Completing
the circle, Bruce
demonstrated three of
Savant’s mashup
projects, including the
US Banking System mashup
that incorporates a
trend visual to show
mortgage portfolios,
related write-offs and
balance sheet strength
of major US banks.
Abstract:
There
is a vast and growing
sea of temporal
information - inside and
outside the enterprise -
that goes unexploited
because it is tough to
access, difficult to
assemble and nearly
impossible to present in
such a way that impacts
users. In-house
systems that generate
events don't do so in
any way that is
compatible with anything
else, and commercial
message systems are too
complex to fill the gap.
In this presentation, it
was shown how the use of
lightweight SOA
structure combined with
the semantic processing
of a mashup engine
can bridge
between the
random noise of
enterprise
events and clear
actionable
information.
About the Speaker:
Bruce Henderson is a
software inventor and
Chief Scientist for
Savant, delivering real
world applications of
SOA techniques. Current
projects involve Content
Based Integration and
Enterprise Syndication (aka
Mashups) for major
companies in finance,
banking and hospitality.
He is the inventor of
the Boomerang Content
Integration Framework
which is patent pending
on many of the
techniques and
technologies behind the
Savant approach.
Mr.
Henderson has been a
part transformational
projects such as
Sprint's ION (early VOIP
implementation), the Air
Force's DCGS project
(next generation web
enabled intelligence
network) and NeXTStep,
the operating system
that later became
Apple's OS X.
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