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AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition combines capabilities of AquaLogic BPM Suite, AquaLogic Interaction, and AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration, to provide users with interactive environment for activity and knowledge-intensive processes. Enabling integrated modeling, execution, and measurement of business processes, product also provides access to information across unstructured/structured enterprise source systems.
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BEA Delivers Integrated Solution Designed to Bring Together People, Process and Knowledge for Activity-Intensive Collaborative Business Processes
BEA Introduces AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition and Offers Customers Limited-time Promotional Discount
Core News Facts:
1) Business Process Management (BPM) with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is designed to usher in a new era of business agility that helps enable new workplace efficiencies and liberating access to systems and services. BEA is the industry thought-leader that is transcending the boundaries of traditional BPM and SOA products by providing market leading support for collaborative business processes.
2) AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition is the first integrated solution to unite three of the most valuable enterprise assets: people, process and knowledge.
3) AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition is made possible by ALBPM Workspace Extensions, a new feature of the AquaLogic BPM Suite. Please visit bea.com/bpmce for more details.
BEAWORLD 2006, BEIJING, Dec. 13 - BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today introduced a new integrated solution that is designed to transcend the boundaries of traditional business process management (BPM) by supporting more contextual and collaborative process needs. The solution, AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition, combines three BEA products for portals, collaboration and BPM into a single, integrated offering. AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition is designed to provide business users with a rich and interactive environment for collaborative and activity and knowledge-intensive processes.
"Traditional BPM often focuses on automating what can be automated, but struggles to address the more dynamic process challenges that require deeper context and collaborative work between process participants," said Mark Carges, executive vice president at BEA Systems. "This type of business process is difficult to address with a single system and is best supported by the combination of BPM, collaboration technology and a rich interactive portal framework."
AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition - Brings it together
AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition is designed to be the first integrated solution to unite three of the most valuable enterprise assets: people, process and knowledge. AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition combines the capabilities of three industry-leading products: AquaLogic BPM Suite, AquaLogic Interaction and AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration to deliver the following:
o Powers the complete business process lifecycle
AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition includes the market-leading
AquaLogic BPM Suite with integrated modeling, execution and measurement
of business processes.
o Process-enabled, enterprise knowledge
AquaLogic Interaction's Knowledge Directory is designed to provide
seamless, structured access to information across unstructured and
structured enterprise source systems, including Documentum, Microsoft
SharePoint, FileNet, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Windows and
Novell File Systems and more. Links to items from these systems can be
attached to business processes in support of the individual activities
within the process.
o Collaboration at every level, for every step
The new offering also includes the full capabilities of AquaLogic
Interaction Collaboration directly integrated within business
processes. This is designed to enable automatic system events or
people to set up collaborative spaces tied to business processes that
support and capture the ad-hoc, unstructured work associated with
process activities.
o A uniform, personal user experience
Business users can access all these features through AquaLogic
Interaction's AJAX-based portal front-end with single sign-on and
integrated corporate identity management. The portal is designed to
support easy, comprehensive personalization to deliver work
environments tailored to each role in the enterprise.
AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition is made possible by ALBPM WorkSpace Extensions, a new feature of the AquaLogic BPM Suite. AquaLogic BPM WorkSpace Extensions is designed to provide integration between the products in the AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition. They can also deliver the foundation for integrating BPM with additional portal products such as BEA WebLogic Portal or IBM WebSphere Portal.
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is a useful example for understanding the more dynamic and collaborative requirements of the high-value business processes supported by AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition. Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act involves automating some routine work, but also coordinating a number of important activities that cannot easily be automated, including collaborating on compliance documents, working with external auditors on ad hoc timelines, submitting documents for approval and review, accessing systems of record and archiving work history.
"By linking business process management with collaboration, we can enhance our business performance and agility. The new BEA AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition can help extend our company's sales application in the portal by mapping sales process activities with best-practice approaches," said Mishael Reese, E-Relationship manager at The Babcock & Wilcox Company. "By streamlining our sales process, it can help us ensure consistency among the sales organization, which can result in increased efficiencies, reduction of costs and decreased development time."
BEA is offering AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition with a promotional discount on the entire suite or any individual components through May 31, 2007. For more information, please visit bea.com/bpmce.
AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition is a key component of the BEA SOA 360 platform. BEA SOA 360 is designed to be the industry's most unified Service- Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform for business transformation and optimization and to help to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams. It spans the three of BEA's product families, BEA AquaLogic, BEA WebLogic, and BEA Tuxedo. BEA SOA 360 is built on the native SOA microService Architecture (mSA) and is supported by BEA WorkSpace 360 -- the industry's first unified collaborative tooling environment to put business and IT at the same table.
About BEAWorld
BEAWorld is the premier event for SOA thought leadership. The conference is 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 help make SOA a successful reality, BEAWorld is the place to find the latest information on BEA's infrastructure technologies including BEA Tuxedo®, BEA WebLogic and BEA AquaLogic. This year's show will also include a Partner Showcase, highlighting the latest and most innovative developments from the extensive BEA partner community.
The third and final of three worldwide events is scheduled to begin today, December 13 in Beijing. The first two events took place in San Francisco, California and Prague, Czech Republic earlier this Fall.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA's SOA 360 platform is the industry's most unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization, in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to achieve Business LiquidITy(TM) can be found at bea.com.
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