BANGALORE: Enterprises must rethink their IT infrastructure and begin to implement service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM), says global IT research firm Gartner .....

Gartner said companies like Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel Systems are reacting to the new challenge of service-oriented architecture with a new class of business applications, called service oriented business applications (Soba). Soba provides extended functionality for use on web services standards.  .....

As enterprises adopt SOAs on a broad scale, Gartner said complex event processing will become the next challenge. It highlighted event-driven architecture as the next development to compliment SOA. Event-driven architecture will allow businesses to detect, report and react to unpredictable events.