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Dr. John Bates
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. John Bates is Chief Technology Officer at Progress Software. In this role Bates is responsible for leading the team that creates and evolves the Progress vision and strategy, leads market research and due diligence for acquisitions to support the strategy, and evangelizes the Progress strategy and solutions to customers, partners and other constituencies.
A recognized visionary and entrepreneur in the software industry, Dr. Bates has a strong track record of innovation in areas such as event-driven architectures, smart environments and real-time computing. In particular, Dr. 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 in business solutions. Dr. Bates also led the initiative to develop the Progress® Responsive Process Management strategy - bringing together solutions including Business Process Management (BPM) and CEP to deliver responsive business operations to industries including financial services, telecommunications, airline operations and logistics.
With an extensive background in the Capital Markets industry, Dr. Bates has pioneered new techniques in algorithmic and high frequency trading, real-time risk and market surveillance. In 2008, Institutional Investor magazine named him one of the 30 most influential people in financial services. In July 2010, Bates became a member of the newly established Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) for the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The CFTC is an independent agency with the mandate to regulate commodity futures and options markets in the United States.
Dr. Bates holds a PhD in computer science from Cambridge University and was a tenured faculty member there until 2000.
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Coping with Fast Business Change
Listen to Mike Gualtieri and Dr. John Bates of Progress Software discuss how you can cope more efficiently with fast change and business transformation. Find out how other companies are adapting to their changing environments at a speed never previously possible and how business leaders and IT must work together to achieve success, and operational responsiveness.
How Event-Driven Processes Can Make Financial Services More Responsive
In a survey by Vanson Bourne, 94% of respondents said that responding to information immediately is critical to their business, yet only 8% currently report information in real-time. Replay this webinar and hear independent analyst Sandy Kemsley explain how event-driven processes make financial services more responsive to customers, competitors and the industry. You will also hear how you can build a solid growth platform with BPM and CEP, and enable ‘on the fly’ decision making.
CEP: Strategic or Tactical Weapon
Presenters discuss the role that complex event processing plays in managing risk and the IT landscape. This webinar features insights from noted capital markets industry analyst, Adam Honore from Aite Group and Dr. John Bates the founder and general manager of Progress Apama, the industry’s leading CEP platform for Capital Markets. You'll hear short and incisive presentations and a lively Q&A session at the end.
Real-time Risk – A Mandate for Trading in Volatile Markets
This webinar features insights from Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst, TABB Group, Dhiru Patel, Chief Quantitative Strategist, Thomas Weisel Partners and Dr. John Bates the founder and general manager of Progress Apama, the industry’s leading CEP platform for Capital Markets solutions. Listen to short and incisive presentations and a lively Q&A session at the end.
Progress Apama High Frequency TradingPresented By John BatesDr. John Bates discusses high frequency trading and its relationship to algo trading. |
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eWeek InterviewPresented By John BatesIn this eWeek interview, Dr. John Bates introduces CEP and its role within organizations, focusing on how and where CEP and BAM can fit within a broader IT architecture |
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Keynote Address by Dr. John Bates and John GoodsonDuring this presentation, Dr. John Bates and John Goodson show you how to profit in a world of continuous disruption. In this video, they highlight the unique strengths of Progress products and how they help deliver on the promise of operational responsiveness today – and tomorrow. |
 
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Dr. John Bates Talks to ReutersIs stopping anonymous trades and charging for high frequency trading enough to prevent a future 'flash crash'? Dr. John Bates gives his opinion to Reuters. |
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Not Technology, But What Technology Can Do for You presented by Dr. John BatesListen as Dr. John Bates shares his keen insights on how technology is evolving to meet our needs, and offers a compelling new "model" for viewing IT and your enterprise. This presentation was made at our Progress Software Summit in New York, November 2010. |
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Not Technology, But What Technology Can Do for You presented in ChicagoListen as Dr. John Bates shares his keen insights on how technology is evolving to meet our needs, and offers a compelling new "model" for viewing IT and your enterprise. This presented was made at our Progress Software Summit in Chicago in 2010. |
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Continuous Process ImprovementIn Part VI of our VII part video series, Dr. John Bates talks about the how business process management (BPM) allows businesses to easily replace and/or automate existing – possibly manual – processes. With responsive process management (RPM), however, you can dynamically improve processes and apply event-driven rules that will allow you to respond to potential problems before they occur. |
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Immediate Sense and RespondIn Part V of our VII part video series, John talks about the how one of today's smartest technologies, complex event processing (CEP), allows businesses to process event feeds and have the ability to sense and respond to the opportunities, or threats, that occur in real time. A good example of how CEP benefits companies is in fraud prevention. |
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Four Types of Business Process VisibilityIn Part IV of our VII part video series, Dr. John Bates talks about the four different types of visibility that many companies may (or may not) have. These include visibility into: 1) modeled processes (business process management), 2) un-modeled processes (usually legacy processes), 3) outside processes, and 4) the interaction between processes. |
Gain Efficiency and Avoid RiskIf there's one business absolute, it's that our information will exponentially continue to grow, get faster and be more complex. This forces business decision makers to be far more creative in far less time, and to become operationally responsive. In this 3-minute teaser, three leading experts, Research VPs Jim Sinur and Roy Schulte, both from analyst firm Gartner, Inc., and Dr. John Bates, CTO of Progress Software, reveal how you can gain actionable insight into your business so that you can become more efficient, avoid risk, and capitalize on opportunities. Click here to listen to the entire video. |
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Delivering Operational ResponsivenessPart III of our VII part series. Hear how Responsive Process Management (RPM) brings together three proven technologies that help companies achieve operational responsiveness – business transaction assurance, complex event processing, and business process management. |
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Take Control of Your Business - The Progress Control TowerPart VII of a VII part series. Dr. John Bates talks briefly about the how the Progress Control Tower not only gives our customers real-time visibility into their complex events but it also allows them to set up business rules and alerts so that you can continually change and evolve how their business processes operate. |
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