So far, a current is running under the sessions that I have seen. In my experience, I tend to trust currents like this as indications of trends in the web market. The next big thing that has been a big thing for a while is Web Oriented Architecture (WOA)
John Musser of ProgrammableWeb gave a very good overview of how we will be building web apps for B2B in the very near future. WOA is the technique of “mashing up” the services of one or more available web application through their Application Programming Interface (API). The up side is that this market is growing beyond its roots in consumer and commercial spaces and on into the Enterprise world.
Companies like Salesforce.com have had open Enterprise API’s since 2003, however the hockey stick curve of adoption of other Enterprise APIs has been shooting up since last year.
ProgrammableWeb believes that these APIs are becoming easier to use for the non-IT person, much in the model of Excel. This may be a bit premature, and certainly there are a number of companies who can help you. Sazbean.com, for instance, is already helping other customers with specialized consulting in helping companies do business online.