Emerging Trends in Software Infrastructure

Action Recommendations for 2004

All large enterprises (with revenue of more than $1 billion) should add CEP and BAM to their IT strategy plans and their IT architecture processes by year-end 2004. They should have detailed standards for event schemas and approved standards for event management middleware infrastructure products by the second half of 2005. Advanced architecture groups in mainstream enterprises should experiment with BAM and CEP during 2004 and 2005, and pilots should be in production by 2006 in selected, critical parts of the application portfolio.

Bottom Line: Significant changes to infrastructure are certain in the next five to 10 years. Service-oriented business application and security challenges both change the way we view applications and their roles. Real-time infrastructure changes the way we view computing infrastructure -- which is critical to the software changing at the same time. Complex-event processing changes the granularity of "what we know" about business transactions, and both SOBA and CEP change how we embrace and communicate with applications. There are other trends that are compelling, but an enterprise addressing the four trends addressed in this research will be better-prepared for those trends that are dependent on agility and dynamism -- the key common theme in these four predictions.

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