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AquaLogic Interaction Process v1.5 coordinates human-focused activities, collaboration between users, and systems integration within context of enterprise business processes. Able to work within SOA environment, it aids in modeling, deployment, and monitoring of business processes. AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration integration lets users share and manage documents and project information, engage in online discussions, and coordinate through notifications and synchronized calendars.
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BEA Systems Furthers Its SOA Innovation with New AquaLogic Interaction Process Release
AquaLogic Interaction Process 1.5 Is Designed to Accelerate the Deployment of Collaborative Business Processes
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 13 /-- BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS) today announced added capabilities to AquaLogic Interaction Process designed to help companies increase business value in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment. Many portal products today support workflow; few, however, are taking steps toward holistic, collaborative business process orchestration. Developed to create business processes and workflows readily exposed to broad user audiences, through a portal environment, the new release of BEA AquaLogic Interaction Process is designed to add innovative collaboration technology that can coordinate human-focused activities, collaboration between users, and systems integration within the context of enterprise business processes. As a result, customers using the product, such as Mercy Health Services and Provider Healthnet Services (PHNS) can be better able to respond to changing business environments and increase operational efficiencies.
"We see AquaLogic Interaction Process as a critical component of our SOA strategy that can help take our portal to the next level for improving efficiencies and driving productivity. To date, our portal has been used primarily for employee self-service communication and building alliances with our key stakeholders, particularly community leaders," said Charles Nigel Lavin, Director, Information Architecture at Mercy Health Services. "By adding business process management capabilities to our portal deployment, we want to automate manual tasks involved in employee lifecycle management, lab policy and procedures, and pulling clinical content from data warehouse. As a result, we can reduce the time required for these processes and can help our staff focus on providing the community with quality health care services."
As a core product within the BEA AquaLogic User Interaction product line, AquaLogic Interaction Process is designed to speed the modeling, deployment and monitoring of business processes that are collaborative by nature. Business analysts can design processes spanning multiple roles and systems using an intuitive graphical, drag-and-drop tool. They can also test and tune processes in real-world simulations and deploy them within a composite application. Through the product's extensibility features, developers can integrate a multitude of services from their service network, including .NET and Java objects, SQL databases and messaging systems.
In version 1.5, AquaLogic Interaction Process is tightly integrated with AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration, and can allow users to share and manage documents and project information, engage in online discussions and coordinate through notifications and synchronized calendars, all within the context of enterprise business processes. Through this integration, companies can deploy business processes that involve multiple process participants across internal or external boundaries who need to collaborate on documents during the process lifecycle.
"Many business processes across industries have collaborative aspects. For example HR management, Sarbanes-Oxley, customer support and provisioning, and sales cycle management all involve many users, require collaboration on documents and activities, and access to multiple systems," said Mark Carges, executive vice president at BEA Systems. "AquaLogic Interaction Process is designed to help organizations deploying composite applications to attain repeatable and predictable process and compliance execution that can help lower operating and IT costs, improve user effectiveness and productivity, and increase organizational agility."
In addition to collaboration integration, new pre-built portlets can allow process participants to track their task lists; quickly initiate processes; navigate and search processes; and manage notifications and alerts on activities a process may require. Additionally, AquaLogic Interaction Process 1.5 can leverage the security framework and developer tools provided by AquaLogic Interaction, helping to eliminate the need to maintain process-specific users and groups and providing advanced integration features across the entire AquaLogic User Interaction product line.
Combined with AquaLogic User Interaction's collaboration, search and content publishing tools, customers have access to one of the industry's most comprehensive portal environments, and a strategy designed for tackling collaborative business process challenges and inefficiencies. AquaLogic Interaction Process 1.5 is generally available. For more information please visit bea.com/process.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. 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(R), Tuxedo(R), JRockit(R), and the new AquaLogic(TM) 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.
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