TIBCO BusinessEvents - Enterprise Level Rule Engine and Event Hub
Our company has a long history of using the TIBCO family product, previously we majorly used the TIBCO BusinessWorks to build the data …
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What is TIBCO BusinessEvents?
Enterprises are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of events that occur continuously. Hidden amongst them can be stalled business processes, opportunities for value creation, potential fraud, dissatisfied customers, failing equipment, and more. TIBCO BusinessEvents® proactively identifies these critical events, responds…
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What is TIBCO BusinessEvents?
Enterprises are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of events that occur continuously. Hidden amongst them can be stalled business processes, opportunities for value creation, potential fraud, dissatisfied customers, failing equipment, and more. TIBCO BusinessEvents® proactively identifies these critical events, responds intelligently in real-time to navigate the fast-moving business environments and optimize outcomes.
Decision-making in businesses requires a comprehensive understanding of various event types, ranging from historical, current, and expected yet absent events. TIBCO BusinessEvents® provides contextual Event Processing.
TIBCO BusinessEvents® enables businesses to handle vast volumes of events that large, complex businesses encounter daily, satisfying the rigorous demands of today’s high-traffic business environment, and is designed to provide the essential capability of an event-driven architecture (EDA).
TIBCO BusinessEvents Features
- Supported: Enterprise-scale event throughput
- Supported: Event Processing from broader contextual information using multiple approaches
- Supported: Streamlines a complete EDA rollout
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TIBCO BusinessEvents Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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November 28, 2018
TIBCO BusinessEvents - Enterprise Level Rule Engine and Event Hub
Our company has a long history of using the TIBCO family product, previously we majorly used the TIBCO BusinessWorks to build the data flowing and adaptation back-end process, together with the TIBCO EMS. In recent years, together with the TIBCO ActiveSpace, TIBCO BusinessEvents has been introduced into the IT department, aiming to further strengthen our efforts to leverage the "event-driven" architecture to better support our increasing real-time business decision making demand due to business expansion. TIBCO BusinessEvents has become the core technology stack of our company's Enterprise Foundation Service
- It allows us to build rule-based model-driven application, to collect, filter, analyze, correlate various business events in our real-time event flow
- It makes various business applications/components easy to integrate (loosely decoupled but chained via the events flow) together
- Its distributed rule engine and embedded in-memory data grid (ActiveSpace) gives us a lot of flexibility and room to play with a large amount of rules and data with high performance
- Due to some technical limitation of the embedded ActiveSpace, when the application is deployed in the multiple data-centers with distance, the data/event sharing across the data centers become very challenging
- More machine learning and deep learning features could be added to help business further use the real-time event flow more efficiently, to support the pattern recognition and condition self-learning mechanism
- More focus could be added to better integrate with public major cloud services
September 05, 2018
BE is a must!
We use BE across our entire enterprise and it ensures our quick delivery of complex business ventures and new business intiatives.
- Business driven interactions with our enrollment engine.
- BE and BW usage need to be clearly defined and lines drawn
May 09, 2018
TIBCO Spofire review.
It is used across the whole organization addressing problems spanning from R&D to financial analysis.
- Dashboard for real-time analysis
- R-scripting, although the R editor could be improved, there are syntax inconsistencies between R-studio and R-opensource in TSSS
- Basic statistics and drill down capabilities
- Better integration with R versions and better debug for R-scripts in Spotfire. There are inconsistencies in syntactic expressions accepted by R-studio and not accepted in Spotfire. Accelerating the debug would be awesome. Having a command like View (data frame) that directly output in the dashboard would be a great accelerator.
January 24, 2018
Business Events, the prodigy of TIBCO!
TIBCO BusinessEvents (BE) is used in multiple business applications as well as gateway implementations at Western Union. It is used to receive, transform and handle events/transactions in real-time. Business users are provided with the capability of making and changing rules dynamically using BE based applications. Since every transaction in the company deals directly with funds every application plays a critical role.
- Business users have the capability of changing rules dynamically without downtime in the application.
- Real-time processing capability decreases latency and increases the efficiency of the features developed in TIBCO BE.
- Capability of caching the data as well as managing it as an independent entity as TIBCO Active Spaces is a huge addition.
- TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio for altering the decision tables/rules can be made more robust and production ready.
- TIBCO BusinessEvents views can be made more robust. This will avoid additional BI layers on top of the data.
- Event Stream Processing and Pattern Matching add-on of TIBCO BE is an awesome feature. It can be made more robust by implementing machine learning and deep learning.
January 19, 2018
TIBCO BusinessEvents Review
We Use Business Events Rule Engine in regards with Fraud Detection use cases. Various rules built and deployed to identify fraud across different channels. We use Web Studio to author most of the rules that are executed by BE Engine. ActiveSpaces used as a caching mechanism between BE and Backing Store.
- Optimized Rules engine
- Extremely efficient decision tables
- Web based rules authoring tools
- Not so easy hot deployment
- Web Based tool lacks some features needed in Rules Authoring
- Does not work well with public cloud vendors, e.g. not easy way to run BE and AS with ECS on Amazon Web Services
January 18, 2018
Eventful Business with BusinessEvents
BusinessEvents is used in my organisation to deliver a capability of rules-driven processing on the events that are flowing through the middleware layer. The requirements expect TIBCO BusinessEvents to process states of various electrical devices, perform actions based on the changes of a state exceeding a defined threshold of level, time, or value increment or just of a count as the event. The following business problems are being addressed by using BusinessEvents: event monitoring, event correlation, event recording and event filtering where an event may be observed as a change of state with any physical or logical or otherwise discriminated condition. Preserving the state of an object is achieved through State Machine.
- Process network events and use defined rules to infer system occurrences
- Monitor distribution substation switches that have remote telemetry to infer the actual switch state
- Perform rule based Network Alarm suppression
- Ability to handle/process huge real time data
- Faster processing of data with high rate of performance.
- User-friendly setup and quick event formulation capabilities
January 18, 2018
TIBCO BusinessEvents as CEP solution for complex problems
In the actual project, TIBCO BusinessEvents is being used as correlation engines. Its purpose is to collect metadata about service requests and responses across the Service Backbone, correlate them, and provide statistical information about deployed services, such as the number of hits for each service operation, successes and faults, average latency, and so on. All these information are then delivered to another component to be persisted and then read from a GUI. Thanks to this statistical information about the deployed services, the user would be able to figure out the health of the system, create business monitoring rules, and act immediately whenever unexpected patterns appear.
- One of the simplest use of TIBCO BusinessEvents, is for "Condition Detection" scope. Let's assume we like to monitor business services or our corporation, and create monitoring alerts whenever certain conditions are reached. For example, a monitoring rule could be: "when a service call receives more than 80% of fault responses within a minute, generate an alert (send an email)".
- In this scenario, TIBCO BusinessEvents offers a very powerful rule engine. In the rule engine will be defined all the monitoring rules, and their threshold. The rule engine will receive events with statistics information about service calls, eventually correlates and aggregates those message, and when particular condition are detected by the defined rules, an alert is generated
- One interesting capability of TIBCO BusinessEvents, is to recognize situation. One example over all, could help to understand the "Situation Recognition" scenario: the Bank Fraud detection.
- Let's assume a bank would like to define a solution to identify when a credit card fraud is in act. Now, a simple use of the credit card by its owner, most probably, is not a fraud. So the system should avoid to raise alert every time. But the system should be able to recognize certain suspicious conditions, as for example when the credit card has been used for purchase in a shop in Italy, and after a pair of hours in one store in USA.
- This means that one single event (usage in Italy) is not enough to define the fraud, but the system is able to keep the event, and process it once others events arrive, in order to recognize suspicious situation.
- One particular pattern, where TIBCO BusinessEvents would be very helpful, is for Track and Trace patterns.
- Let's consider an aviation company, that needs a process to follow customer's baggage. The customer drops off his baggage at airport, a bar code is assigned to it, that belongs to the owner. The baggage should follow a route to reach the target airplane, be loaded on the airplane, once arrived at destination unloaded and sent to the correct belt to be collected by its owner.
- All the steps above, con be modeled with a state machine, where the baggage change its state at each passage under a bar code reader for example.
- This solution would allow companies to track baggage from the beginning (when customer drops the baggage at counter) to the end (customer collects his baggage at destination), and establish any problem during the path.
- TIBCO BusinessEvents offers really several features, many way to customize and adapt it to own requirements. One interesting feature is the opportunity to create Rules, at runtime, by an user that is not developer, using rule templates.
- This feature, well implemented and with few interesting addon, has an architecture not very simple.
- For example, we have a Business Monitoring component, where the business user can define his monitoring rules, the rules are persisted on DB, and picked up at any time by another component.
- The component that reads the rules from the DB is not a rule engine, this means that is not performing very well for this scope, and also it needs each time to retrieve the rule to execute from the Database.
- Our intention is to substitute this last component with TIBCO BusinessEvents, in order to use the power of the rule engine. But, to create the rules, there is a new mechanism, that should be integrated with the existing GUI, and more else, the rules are persisted on file system.
- There is no way for the developer to auto create the rules internally, and enable them in the working memory, for example generate the rules from entries on a database, and create the rules directly in the working memory.
- The existing solution injects the new rules in the working memory from outside.
January 18, 2018
TIBCO BE Product Review
Currently, Fraud department in my company uses Business Events, to run rules to detect fraud based on certain data points and internal calculations. We heavily use BRMS functionality to dynamically create and deploy rules on ad-hoc bases.
- BE does inferencing part very well
- Correlate a lot of data streams and make decisions on very minute scales.
- BRMS functionality with hot deployment should be improved a lot
- As everyone is moving towards cloud, BE should easy have docker support and should be able to move dockers easily to cloud env.
November 22, 2017
How to get the business to adapt to change
It replaces the current legacy fraud operational system. We incorporated a number of producers of real-time events (e.g. web UI claims process and RSA Web Threat Detection). TIBCO BusinessEvents (BE) is the consumer that runs a set of rules against those events to determine the next steps in the claims process.
- Great event driven engine with a rich event model
- Provides ability to use Web Studio to generate basic rules that will drive the outcomes
- Allows for Java implementations of other rule sets
- Has in-memory caching abilities
- We had to write our own business rules interface that matched how our previous systems operated. Web Studio has gone through some great changes but in that time we have made a decision to move to Kafka, Kinesis, and Spark for our events streaming solution in AWS.
- We did not modify our business process flow to take advantage of BE. If you are not truly running an adaptive business process effort, then BE could be overkill.
November 14, 2017
BE isn't really worth it
Tibco BusinessEvents is being used by several groups across the company in non-legacy projects. It was supposed to be the business rules engine that would drive the event-driven, real time capabilities the company wanted. The in-memory rules engine was supposed to enable instant decision making over the life of the product.
- The rules engine works well for simple rule sets in smaller batches
- TIBCO consultants are usually very good with the product
- The product does not scale well as a central manager of rules.
- It can be difficult to deploy and scale without extensive knowledge of a lot of inner workings of the product, which is not widely available.
- It is a very heavyweight product, requiring lots of resources with little visibility as to how resources are being utilized.
- The BE language resembles Java, but is just different enough to have a learning curve and cause issues if one is unfamiliar with it. Plus it is not nearly as flexible as Java.
November 06, 2017
A real Fast Data Engine!
For enrollment validations, we used:
- BusinessEvents (BE) was acting as a rules engine to perform some initial set of validations, transformations, computations, and also acting as a control flow management engine.
- We used BE's state diagram to specify what process or rules to apply and behavior was specified as declarative rules.
- It does not require major implementation effort to address major business issues.
- Works well as a rules engine with process orchestration capability.
- Focused on handling only light weight, ad-hoc processes.
- The designer should be more easy to use (like TIBCO BW).
October 30, 2017
BE as Business Roles Engine
TIBCO BusinessEvents has been used to implement the business catalog engine of the business catalog. BE was used by the IT department. come detto prima è stato usato per realizzare il BRE di un Nuovo Catalogo Commerciale
- It does not require major implementation effort to address major business issues.
- It is quite efficient even if subjected to high stress.
- Is extremely versatile
- It should also allow TIBCO BW to make more use of drag and drop configurations
September 07, 2016
TIBCO BusinessEvents- Processing rules faster
For enrollment validations, we used:
- TIBCO Business Events (BE) as the container, delegating to TIBCO BusinessWorks for interfaces to existing systems/extracting data as required for event processing.
- BE was acting as a rules engine to perform some initial set of validations, transformations, computations, and also acting as s control flow management engine.
- We used BE's state diagram to specify what process or rules to apply and behavior was specified as declarative rules.
- Works well as a rules engine with process orchestration capability.
- Maintains the state as the process goes through various stages.
- Well defined state diagram that specifies what process or rules to apply and behavior is specified as declarative rules.
- Needs a more user friendly interface to modify business rules.
- Focused on handling only light weight, ad-hoc processes.
- Not a rapid application development tool. Most of the time developers end up writing Java code.