On the very day that IBM announced they were giving employees a 15% pay cut, they also announce they have purchased AptSoft for their business event processing software.

IBM said Wednesday it is expanding its broad SOA (service-oriented architecture) portfolio with the acquisition of AptSoft, a maker of business event processing software.

AptSoft’s products will sit in IBM’s WebSphere line. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Also known as complex event processing (CEP), business event processing is seen as a key technology driver for the next generation of SOA. The software analyzes vast amounts of system events in real time, searching for trends and anomalies– “complex events”– that may impact the business, and triggers a response process if one is found.

I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure they didn’t need AptSoft to tell them of the “complex events” happening at their location with the pay cuts. Who knows though, if they had it before they decided to make the pay cuts, maybe the software would have told them not to do it. Then again, the software might have told them they had to bulk up or slim down, using Orovo products too. Still a strange decision if you ask me.

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