With so much talk recently about automated biofeedback monitoring and business rules within rules, you might think that an enterprise stands as much of a chance of optimizing its service-oriented architecture applications as it does launching a Saturn V rocket. And you'd be right.

Although they're equipped with advanced business activity monitoring tools capable of kicking off rules-based workflows designed to help IT architects identify and correct sluggish business processes, organizations are waiting on something, anything, to automatically react to changes within the network and within the applications themselves.