BEA Advances SOA Leadership with New Products, Partners, Customers and Programs

27 September 2005

BEAWORLD 2005 – Santa Clara, Calif. – Sept. 27, 2005 – Capitalizing on its early leadership in providing the software infrastructure for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) today announced a series of new products, partners, customers and programs that will help customers "Think liquid" and accelerate their SOA projects from pilot to production.

"SOA is the most powerful movement in enterprise technology today," said Alfred Chuang, chairman and chief executive officer, BEA Systems, Inc. "The days of business silos and software smokestacks are coming to an end, and our customers couldn’t be happier. No longer will managers have to cobble together scraps of information through dozens of phone calls, requests from corporate databases and hours of spreadsheet work. For the first time, they will be able to tap into a network of services that deliver what they need when they need it, all based on a common software infrastructure for applications and services that masks the complexity of underlying technologies."

Announcements at BEAWorld today include:

Introduction of BEA WebLogic Real Time edition to deliver predictable real-time application responses to enterprise applications running on the WebLogic product family;
Delivering on the promise made earlier this year on offering "blended" development and deployment choices to developers, BEA delivers the first J2EE Application Environment to Support Apache Beehive, Apache XMLBeans and the Eclipse Web Tools Platform. BEA also announced the availability of customer support for the Spring framework, as well as certifying Spring for WebLogic Server;
New benchmarks that showcase BEA technology prowess including breakthrough performance for next-generation telecom networks using WebLogic SIP Server and the latest Intel Pentium Architecture processors, which together exceed stringent industry expectations for call throughput and message latency for Voice over IP (VoIP) networks;
Customers continue to count on BEA: Banco Credito Inversiones (BCI), one of the largest banks in Chile, selected BEA WebLogic Platform over IBM WebSphere, as the foundation for a unified banking and investment portal that serves business and retail customers; and
Formation of a Global Management Alliance that aligns seven top management software vendors with BEA to simplify management, improve operations and reduce downtime of mission-critical applications based on WebLogic Server 9.0, together with BMC Software, Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, Mercury Interactive, Motive, Quest Software, Symantec Corp. and Wily Technology Inc.

BEA and Partners Help Customers Accelerate SOA, Unify Business and IT

According to Gartner, "SOA will shift the focus from tools and packaged suites to modular offerings from multiple vendors that can be assembled and combined by a systems integrator. By 2008, SOA will provide the basis for 80 percent of development projects." Many enterprises will share their SOA experience this week at BEAWorld, which includes tailored insight for four key audiences that make up the IT organization and how SOA is changing the way they code, plan, operate and manage their enterprise. This includes: the executive need for a "dashboard" view of their business metrics and operations; the architect’s emerging role as the unifying force in IT – standardizing infrastructure, maintaining the catalog of IT services and "composing" business processes; the developer’s continued role coding new features, functions and applications; and the IT manager’s need to quickly provision services, run efficient operations and deliver guaranteed service levels.

Why is SOA gaining traction now? Several factors are making it possible to start the SOA journey today. Web services standards have matured, application suites are evolving and customers are increasingly facing difficulties in interoperating suites from different vendors, and increasing cost of maintaining current application suites.

"SOA is a powerful reality for customers today and the real power of SOA will come from freeing ‘frozen and idle assets,’ which represent a huge part of IT spend," said Bruce Graham, BEA’s vice president of worldwide professional services. "Many of our customers are trying to deal with bad architecture that has resulted from monolithic application stacks, non-standard infrastructure and disruptive business changes. The real-world approach shows that best-of-breed and heterogeneity are just a fact of life, and thawing out those assets are key to gaining business advantage from IT."

SOA is also breaking down boundaries between IT vendors, as evidenced by the amount of standards development, collaboration and adoption work happening across the industry. BEA has been a key player in those standards efforts to date, including its founding role in the WS* consortium and its participation in groups that have spawned key standards like SOAP and XML.

To learn more about SOA best practices, adoption trends, and insight from the comprehensive survey conducted by BEA among more than 1,000 customers, please refer to the SOA Resource Center at www.bea.com/soa.

 

About BEAWorld

BEAWorld is the annual infrastructure software technology conference designed to provide critical insights, hands-on instruction, best-practice strategies, and opportunities for interaction with like-minded professionals, industry leaders, visionaries and expert practitioners.

In addition to working to make SOA a successful reality, BEAWorld delivers the latest information on BEA’s infrastructure technologies including BEA Tuxedo®, the BEA WebLogic® products, the BEA AquaLogic™ products and a Partner Showcase to highlight the latest and greatest developments from the extensive BEA partner community. To register or receive more information about the Santa Clara event, please visit www.bea.com/beaworld.

Additional events are scheduled to be held throughout the year in the following cities: London (Oct. 11-12); Paris (Oct. 13-14); Prague (Oct. 18-19); Tokyo (Oct. 25-26); and Beijing (Dec. 7-8).

Editor / Analyst Note: For press and analysts interested in attending and scheduling one-on-one briefings with BEA executives, please contact Diana Wong at 415-244-2785 or djwong@webershandwick.com.

 

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, providing standards-based platforms to accelerate the secure flow of information and services. BEA product lines — WebLogic®, Tuxedo®, JRockit®, and the new AquaLogic™ family of Service Infrastructure — help customers reduce IT complexity and successfully deploy Service-Oriented Architectures to improve business agility and efficiency. For more information please visit www.bea.com.

Contact Information

May Petry
BEA Systems, Inc
+1-408-570-8704
may.petry@bea.com

Diana Wong
Weber Shandwick
+1-415-248-3426
djwong@webershandwick.com

 

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding the ability of BEA’s new SOA-related products and its partners, customers, programs and acquisitions to accelerate customer’s SOA projects from pilot to production, provide a common software infrastructure for applications and services that masks the complexity of underlying technologies and contribute to customer’s achieving faster return on investments (“ROI”).  Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: any unforeseen changes in the technology, standards or marketplace for enterprise information integration software; the timing of a recovery from the current economic and IT industry downturn;  any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the development BEA’s solutions;  and any software errors related to BEA’s solutions.  Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA’s 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2005 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed thereafter by BEA from time-to-time with the SEC.  The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.

 

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