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BEA Systems,
Inc., has recently announced that the company continues to rack
up honors as the leader in service-oriented architecture (SOA).
This year, an IDG Research survey has revealed that customers consider
BEA the top choice when selecting SOA solutions. In the survey,
respondents ranked BEA No. 1 among companies it would consider for
SOA solutions and services in the next 12 months.
"We have been working with BEA since we first implemented SOA and
it has been a fantastic partnership," said Scott Metzger, Chief
Technology Officer of TrueCredit. "BEA's solutions give us the required
flexibility to develop a heterogeneous infrastructure and the ability
to scale our SOA at a pace that works for us."
"The evidence is clear. The audience that matters most -- customers
-- considers BEA the leader in SOA," said Diyaa Zebian, General
Manager, Middle East & Egypt, eSolutions BEA. "While other companies
are spending more money on marketing SOA and working on integrating
their own existing products, BEA has products for SOA today. Customers
realize BEA can give them the fastest, most cost-effective way to
take their SOA from pilot to production."
SOA is an architectural approach used by I.T. that organizes the
discrete functions contained in enterprise applications into standards-based
services that may be combined, configured and reused on the fly
to meet the ever-changing dynamics of business. This modular approach
to I.T. can contribute to a company's flexibility, agility and organizational
speed.
The BEA portfolio of SOA solutions include AquaLogic, WebLogic
and Tuxedo. AquaLogic is a cross-platform product family optimized
for composing, orchestrating, securing and managing SOA throughout
the enterprise; WebLogic is a J2EE platform to blend, build, and
deploy service-enabled applications; and Tuxedo a platform that
unlocks legacy applications and extends them to a service-oriented
architecture.
Since significantly upgrading its SOA portfolio with the introduction
of the AquaLogic product line for service infrastructure needs in
June 2005, BEA claims to have experienced significant growth. It
has reported three consecutive accelerating license revenue growth,
a full 18 percent in the fourth quarter when compared to the prior
fourth quarter. Today, AquaLogic accounts for approximately 10 percent
of BEA revenues -- a significant contribution for a product family
that was launched in June 2005.
BEA also has expanded its SOA vision further via acquisition, first
by purchasing Plumtree, a leader in portals technology, in August
2005, and Fuego, a leader in BPM technology, in March 2006.
BEA's SOA solutions, the Tuxedo, WebLogic and AquaLogic product
families, are also winning rave reviews from industry analysts,
industry professionals and reviewers
Examples include:
In March 2006, BEA's AquaLogic Service Bus earned the Editor's
Choice award from Network Computing in a review that included competitors
including Oracle and IBM. Network Computing also did a BPM product
review in July of 2005. Fuego, which is now the AquaLogic Business
Service Interaction family of products, took first place. IBM did
not compete in this review.
In its "Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005" report,
Forrester rated BEA Systems as a leader in the ESB Suites segment
and in the Comprehensive ESB Suites category. BEA was the only company
to be named a leader in both segments.
In February 2006, Forrester Research identified BEA's AquaLogic
Data Services Platform as the "most comprehensive" solution in the
enterprise data virtualization market.
WebLogic is designed to allow customers to unlock and extend their
legacy applications to new platforms and accelerate the delivery
of SOA -- making the free flow of information, processes, and services
across the business possible. WebLogic Server is the underpinning
and the service delivery vehicle to SOA, and as services become
more common place, a business' SOA will only be as strong as the
weakest link.
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