Complex Event Processing (CEP) is getting a lot of attention, in line with pervasive presence of sensors in manufacturing environments, cars, buildings, etc. The OMG's Event Processing Community of Practice (CoP) held an virtual event on June 7, with speakers from Gartner, IBM, Sabre Airline Solutions, TIBCO Software, and Cloud Event Processing Inc. Replays are available here.

No, it's not a new Olympic motto, but it is how you can assemble a multi-company collaboration environment to respond to an urgent need. Recently, we put together a fairly comprehensive Web site (including newly registered domains pointing to it), a discussion forum, a team calendar, and a conference call capability, all using free tools "in the cloud." The hardest part was not the technology, or the lack of clear requirements at the beginning ("agile" to the rescue!) but... assembling the contact information for the team members and making sense of their multiple network identities. We went from 0 to 60 in about four days, part-time, and think this can be tightened to 48 hours once we document the best practices and lessons learned from this effort. Note that this method is not suited (at this point) for highly confidential materials. Speed was a critical requirement, and "good enough" security was deemed sufficient.

"Customers don't experience averages, and that's what we were measuring."

-- Patti VanLammeren, Customer Experience Officer at Allstate,
during Forrester's Customer Experience Forum 2010 (CXP10)
-- Mike Kavis, CTO of M-Dot Network,
via Twitter ( @madgreek65)