Unified SOA Platform transforms and optimizes businesses.
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Built on BEA microService Architecture, BEA SOA 360 platform spans Tuxedo, WebLogic®, and AquaLogic product families to help improve cost structures and promote growth of revenue streams. Unified Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform is also supported by SOA collaborative tooling environment, BEA WorkSpace 360. Tools bring business analysts, architects, developers, and IT operations pros into shared workspace for collaboration and interaction.
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BEA Announces SOA 360; Industry's Most Unified SOA Platform to Transform and Optimize Business
Core News Facts: 1. BEA continues to extend its SOA leadership, with the introduction of BEA SOA 360, the industry's most unified Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform designed for business transformation and optimization, in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams.
2. BEA SOA 360 spans the three BEA product families and is built on the company's native SOA microServices Architecture (mSA), and supported by the newly unveiled SOA collaborative tooling environment, BEA WorkSpace 360.
3. BEA SOA 360 is the company's competitive weapon that will enable the company to deliver innovation that can adapt faster and more flexibly to changing business conditions.
BEAWORLD 2006 - SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19 -- BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS) today unveiled its plans for the BEA SOA 360 platform. The BEA SOA 360 platform is intended to deliver the industry's most unified Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform for business transformation and optimization, in order to help to improve cost structures and to grow new revenue streams. The BEA SOA 360 platform is uniquely architected with the newly unveiled BEA microService Architecture (mSA). The SOA 360 platform spans the three BEA product families -- Tuxedo, WebLogic(R) and AquaLogic -- and is supported by the newly previewed SOA collaborative tooling environment, BEA WorkSpace 360. BEA WorkSpace 360 is intended as the industry's first unified SOA tools to bring business analysts, architects, developers and IT operations professionals into a shared workspace for collaboration and interaction.
Critical to the adoption of shared or syndicated services is executive leadership sponsorship and the reliability and availability of SOA-based services. The BEA SOA for Executives is the first BEA suite of SOA consulting and education services for senior IT executives and is designed to help empower executives to invest in SOA and lead change within their organizations by conveying the business value of SOA. BEA also unveiled today its patent-pending BEA Guardian Support Service, which represents a radical departure from the traditional break-fix support model employed by the enterprise software industry, potentially eliminating the burden of reactive and proactive support services.
"BEA approaches every market opportunity with innovation, architectural excellence and an unyielding standard of reliability and availability," said Alfred Chuang, chairman and chief executive officer, BEA Systems, Inc. "The BEA SOA 360 platform is the result of nearly $500 million in investment and the complete focus of the company. Unlike our competitors, we believe that SOA is not only a market opportunity, it is a fundamental approach to business, enterprise architecture and our platform itself."
About BEA microService Architecture
BEA today also unveiled a preview of the microService Architecture (mSA) of its BEA SOA 360 platform. Unlike other "fused," monolithic, proprietary middleware architectures, the BEA SOA 360 platform will be lightweight and based on native Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) standards making it more open, interoperable, embeddable and naturally extensible for third party development. The BEA mSA development is based on the principles and philosophy of SOA and the concept of a Service Network -- separation of concerns, modularity and lightweight, as opposed to point-to-point, integration. It is also event-driven, using notification services to publish and discover appropriate modular components or microServices. Since BEA mSA is designed to be modular by definition, it also will be naturally "blendable" and will leverage open source assets including containers and presentation services. The application of SOA principles, such as separation of concerns and substitutability, helps to enable the BEA's microService architecture to evolve with the needs of the enterprise.
About Workspace 360 product family
BEA today also gave a preview of its supporting WorkSpace 360 product family. Slated to enter the market throughout 2007, WorkSpace 360 is intended to fundamentally change the way that both business and IT professionals collaborate and work individually across the extended enterprise. BEA believes that this product family will deliver the first truly shared workspaces that empower the most important Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) leadership roles across the enterprise -- the business analyst, enterprise architect, service/application developer and the IT operations professional. The BEA WorkSpace 360 product family seeks to bring a free-form collaborative environment into every aspect and every role in the SOA leadership team.
About BEA SOA for Executives Services
The SOA for Executives is the first BEA suite of SOA consulting and education services for senior IT executives. This suite is designed to help empower executives to invest in SOA and lead change within their organizations by conveying the business value of SOA through BEA's sensible approach. The new SOA for Executives suite of services is the only set of professional services that are built for executives from the ground up and based on BEA's experience with SOA at Global 2400 companies. According to a recent IDG Research Services survey of 500 IT and business professionals, the top inhibitors to SOA deployment are a lack of skill or training, building a new governance model, internal IT and organization barriers, and defining metrics to measure SOA.
About the BEA Guardian Support Service
BEA Guardian Support Service is the industry's first and only patent-pending predictive and pre-emptive software support. Guardian represents a radical departure from the traditional break-fix support model employed by the enterprise software industry and can potentially reduce the burden of reactive and proactive support services. BEA plans to first include Guardian as part of its standard support level for WebLogic and select AquaLogic products. Guardian is an integrated and automated maintenance tool that helps streamline deployments and day-to-day operations. It scans, analyzes and diagnoses domains 24 by seven for potential problems, and recommends and finds the right updates and maintenance packs to correct the problem. By correcting problems before they occur, customers can potentially reduce unplanned downtime, reduce IT support staff hours and minimize the impact to operations and end-users through the application of Signature Patterns(TM/SM).
About BEAWorld
BEAWorld is the premier event for SOA thought leadership and is taking place in three strategic world markets spanning the Americas, Europe and Asia. 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(R), BEA WebLogic, BEA AquaLogic, and BEA SOA 360. This year's show will also include a Partner Showcase, highlighting the latest and most innovative developments from the extensive BEA partner community.
The first of three planned worldwide events is scheduled to begin today, Sept. 19 at the Moscone Convention Center North in San Francisco. Two additional events are scheduled in the following cities: Prague (Oct. 11-12) and Beijing (Dec. 13-14). Visit bea.com/beaworld to register today. For sponsorship information, please visit bea.com/beaworld/sponsors/.
About BEA Systems, Inc.
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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