Enterprise systems management as we know it is on the way to irrelevance. The progression seems inevitable. In the recent past, managing business system elements such as NT platforms became a low-level, low-value task. System management vendors have stayed profitable by moving up the technology curve, managing higher-value enterprise services such as databases and ERP systems. But just as managing business system elements has faded in value, managing enterprise services will, in the future, become a low-level, low-value task. Within five years, we foresee that the value and relevance of today’s enterprise service management will rank no higher than NT platform management does today. The highest-value opportunity will reside in a new type of management solution.