An interesting fact was divulged at a recent meeting of TIBCO BusinessEvents specialists: a large financial institution had evaluated TIBCO BusinessEvents against one of the leading “business rule engine” vendors. The Proof Of Concept tested the feasibility of  running a set of event processing business rules against an incoming event stream. TIBCO BusinessEvent’s performance was reported at 4 times the non-CEP BRE’s performance, when measured by events processed in a fixed time.

Customer feedback, on the important features of TIBCO BusinessEvents relevant to their application were: rule engine, distributed cache, decision management, performance, and ability to interface to external databases.