BEA Systems Showcases New Web 2.0 Products for Enterprise Users at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference


SAN JOSE, Calif., March 27 // -- BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced its participation as a gold sponsor at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) scheduled to take place March 26-29, 2007 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, Calif.

Today at 4:20 p.m., BEA's vice president of engineering, Adrian McDermott, is scheduled to present a session entitled "Extreme Productivity in the Enterprise: The User is the Developer is the User ... " The session, located in the Gallery, is aimed at highlighting and demonstrating three of BEA's new products designed to bring Web 2.0 and social computing to the enterprise. This new enterprise class of integrated social computing software from BEA includes three new products, BEA AquaLogic(R) Pages, BEA AquaLogic(R) Ensemble and BEA AquaLogic(R) Pathways, each designed to empower end-user participation in the workplace while giving IT the management and governance control that core enterprise systems and processes require.

BEA today also launched a new resource for the Web 2.0 enabled enterprise. For more information, please visit http://en.terpri.se/.

The sixth annual ETech Conference brings together C-suite executives, scientists, researchers, programmers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, analysts and media to discuss this year's theme "Sufficiently Advanced Technology" - a theme chosen to encourage the examination of the technological "magic" behind everything from infrastructure to mass computing and personalized medicine to alternative energy sources.

Keeping with ETech's mission to showcase advancements that integrate technologies, streamline user interfaces and simplify the complex, BEA plans to introduce its new enterprise Web 2.0 technologies at the conference:

o AquaLogic Ensemble (formerly Project Runner) is infrastructure software
designed for developers and IT operations to create and manage
enterprise mashup applications, regardless of development platform and
hosting environment;

o AquaLogic Pages (formerly Project Builder) is designed to empower end-
user participants to surface enterprise data and create simple Web
applications for day-to-day business situations, dramatically improving
knowledge worker productivity;

o AquaLogic Pathways (formerly Project Graffiti) is a collaborative
information discovery and expert identification tool that combines
social book-marking and tagging with search and activity analytics, and
is designed to help users discover and share information and expertise
through the power of social networks.

For more information on BEA's Web 2.0 products for the enterprise, please visit http://www.bea.com/enterprise.

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BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software. BEA's SOA 360 platform is designed to be the industry's most unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization, by, among other things, helping 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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