Jim Sinur is a vice president in Gartner Research after a short stint with a BPM vendor. Prior to that, Mr. Sinur was with Gartner 15 years and helped establish the BPI/BPM areas at Gartner and is considered a thought leader. His research and areas…


Roy Schulte is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research on the Business Intelligence team. His specialties include event processing, real-time operational intelligence, CEP, BAM, message-oriented middleware (MOM), publish-and-subscribe, and cloud messaging.


Dr. John Bates is senior vice president, chief technology officer (CTO) and head of Corporate Development for Progress Software.
Bates is a recognized visionary and entrepreneur in the software industry and has a strong track record of innovation in areas such as event-driven architectures, smart environments, and business activity monitoring. In particular, Bates is recognized as one of the foremost driving forces behind the emergence of complex event processing (CEP) and has pioneered the commercial use of event processing applications in business solutions that empower operational responsiveness, including capital markets trading, risk and compliance, telecommunications, fraud prevention, smart logistics and many more.