TIBCO Airs Out CEP at Air France / KLM

Big CEP use case news yesterday:  TIBCO announced a deal with Air France KLM for service oriented archiecture (SOA) and complex event processing (CEP). 

Way to go TIBCO.  This is exact the kind of continued great press the industry needs, and yet another important use case for the technology.  And, as we're discussion quite a bit on line, TIBCO did a nice job of separating the two concepts:  SOA and CEP, in their communication:

"[Air France] has chosen TIBCO's software as its enterprise backbone to integrate disparate IT assets under one open, scalable service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework. The seamless integration of AIR FRANCE KLM's legacy applications will help streamline business processes and improve efficiency. In addition, TIBCO's complex event processing software will provide real-time analysis and insight into operational performance and customer needs to help increase the airline carrier's market agility and competitive responsiveness."

Yes, Air France appears to be doing both SOA and CEP - TIBCO is not perpetuating the myth that SOA and EDA are the same thing.

Congratulations to TIBCO and the BusinessEvents team.