SAP has been named by Forrester Research Inc. as a leader in its report “The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Streaming Analytics Platforms, Q3 2014.” The report cited how “SAP aims to make Event Stream Processor (ESP) a first-class service in SAP HANA.”

This is the first such report that Forrester has released for this newly defined category. I’m pleased to see the recognition of the growing importance of this technology across a range of industries.

Read the full text of the SAP announcement here.