"The future," baseball great Yogi Berra said, "ain't what it used to be." This bit of wisdom certainly applies to 2003. With this month's crop of Spotlights, Gartner's tradition of creating a massive base of predictions for the new year continues. It's an enterprisewide effort. Gartner expects 2003 to be just as challenging to the IT industry as 2002 — which makes it even more important to factor our predictions into your enterprise's planning.  Read more SPECIAL OFFER !  Save 10% when you buy this collection. Order by February 14 and get a FREE Talking Technology Audio CD. David McCoy Editor in Chief Application Integration and Middleware Predicts 2003: SOA Is Changing Software 9 December 2002 Roy Schulte  Service-oriented architectures and Web services are becoming mainstream. This will affect application design, many types of software products and even the nature of business-to-business value-added networks. Predicts 2003: SOA Comes of Age via Web Services 5 December 2002 Yefim Natis  Massimo Pezzini  Advances in software technology and potent business drivers are making service-oriented architecture a must. Enabling technology will remain fragmented, Web services notwithstanding. Predicts 2003: SOA to Stir Up Application Server Market 4 December 2002 Yefim Natis  Massimo Pezzini  During 2003, the architecture of mainstream business applications will significantly evolve from monolithic, client/server and thin client to a service-oriented architecture. Only the agile application server and platform vendors will survive. Predicts 2003: Enterprise Service Buses Emerge 9 December 2002 Roy Schulte  The enterprise service bus, a new variation of software infrastructure, has added to the range of technologies that enterprises can use as the enterprise-nervous-system backbone. IBS Market 2003: No Tsunami, but Several Smaller Waves 5 December 2002 Benoit Lheureux  Jess Thompson  The dynamics of the integration broker suite market continue to cause confusion as to the appropriate type of vendor for integration products and the types of vendor products that should be used. Agile Process Integration Is Emerging in BPM 5 December 2002 Jim Sinur  As business process management delivers the benefits of business integration, enterprises are expecting it to capture new opportunities and maintain cost savings. Combined with business rules engines, BPM shows great promise. In 2003, VANs Will Support EDI Through Web Services 4 December 2002 Benoit Lheureux  Frank Kenney  Most enterprises still think of value-added networks as electronic data interchange VANs. This is changing rapidly as emerging and traditional VANs implement new data formats and protocols, such as Web services. Predicts 2003: Business Activity Monitoring Growing Pains 9 December 2002 Roy Schulte  David McCoy  Business activity monitoring is already attractive for leading-edge projects, but its major growth will not begin until 2004. Meanwhile, vendors that will participate in this market must invest in product and business development.

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