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BEAWORLD
2006-PRAGUE, Czech Republic-Oct. 10, 2006 - BEA Systems, Inc.
today unveiled AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7, the first release since
BEA acquired Fuego in March 2006. The new release takes a major
step forward in bridging Business Process Management (BPM) and Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) closer together. SOA remains the most favored
approach among IT organizations for managing complexity in large
IT environments and achieving business goals rapidly and cost-effectively.
AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7 helps business processes tap directly into
SOA, by providing seamless browsing, discovery of and dynamic binding
to managed services. This capability helps IT separate system complexity
from business processes and creates a more flexible infrastructure
that increases both business and IT agility.
BEA
AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7 also introduces comprehensive support for
a global, multi-language approach to business process management,
with Unicode certification and localized versions of the designer
and modeling environments, and the participant experiences. This
helps ensure that large global businesses, with complex, geographically
distributed processes, can finally manage those processes across
geographies and language barriers within a single, multi-language
process management solution. Today, AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7 supports
nine languages, including English, French, German, Japanese, Korean,
simplified Chinese and Spanish. Customers can easily support additional
languages by adding additional resource language bundles.
Additionally,
AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7 is designed to offer new capabilities for
capturing and leveraging best practices within an intuitive process
template repository and a master role directory. Common process
patterns can be captured as templates, managed within a central
repository and made available for new projects. A master role directory
helps ensure that role names are consistently reused across all
processes.
"At
First Horizon, we have successfully improved service delivery to
customers, partners, and investors using the BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite
as the primary technology in our process automation framework,"
said Robert Salazar, vice president of process management at First
Horizon National Corporation. "AquaLogic BPM facilitates collaboration
and focus on process performance resulting in improved alignment
between information technology and business goals and reduced solution
delivery times by up to 30 percent".
The
AquaLogic BPM Suite is a key component of the BEA SOA 360ï‚° platform.
BEA SOA 360ï‚° is designed to be the industry's most unified Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) platform for business transformation and optimization,
helping to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams.
"At
BEA, we believe that BPM is a critical element of SOA. BPM enables
integrated creation, execution and optimization of business processes
and allows continuous improvement of business processes driven directly
from within line of business," said Mark Carges, executive vice
president at BEA Systems. "SOA enables the creation, composition
and governance of loosely coupled business services, allows IT to
manage complexity while connecting people, processes and systems,
and provides a layer of control and governance for IT underneath
BPM. Together, BPM and SOA enables business and IT agility."
New
features of AL BPM 5.7 include:
- Internationalization
and localization for EMEA and APAC: offering localized versions
of the designer and modeling tools, and support for local-language
deployments.
- Support for
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) v3.0:
allowing services used within a modeled process to be discovered
and bound to a process from within the design-time modeling environment.
- Process template
repository and role directory: for capturing and leveraging best
practices across all BPM projects.
- Improved
Business-Activity-Monitoring (BAM) dashboards with easy drill-down
to detailed process activity data.
- Integration
scenarios with WebLogic Integration and AquaLogic Service Bus:
offering customers simple integration paths between BEA products;
an
- Improved
documentation, usability and APIs.
For
more information, please visit www.bea.com/bpm.
BEA also announced the availability of the BEA Business Process
Management Lifecycle Assessment and new Process Discovery and Foundation
Workshops. These new offerings can help enterprises better understand
their current maturity in leveraging business process management
methodologies and technologies as well as opportunities to further
leverage BPM as part of their overall business and IT strategy.
For more information on the BPM Lifecycle Assessment, please visit
http://bpmready.bea.com.
ALBPM
is a key component of the AquaLogic product family, which is part
of the BEA SOA 360o platform. Announced last month at BEAWorld 2006
San Francisco, the BEA SOA 360° platform is designed to deliver
the industry's most unified SOA platform and spans all three of
BEA's product families, AquaLogic, WebLogic, Tuxedo and the company's
newest product initiative, BEA Workspace 360°. (See Sept. 19, 2006,
press release titled "BEA Announces SOA 360°; Industry's most unified
SOA Platform to transform and optimize business.")
About
BEAWorld
BEAWorld
is the premier event for SOA thought leadership and is scheduled
to take 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 make SOA a successful reality, BEAWorld can
deliver the latest information on BEA's infrastructure technologies
including BEA Tuxedo®, BEA WebLogic, BEA AquaLogic and a Partner
Showcase to highlight the latest and most innovative developments
from the extensive BEA partner community.
The
second of three planned worldwide events is scheduled to begin today,
Oct. 10 in Prague. The first took place at the Moscone Convention
Center in San Francisco last month. One additional event is scheduled
in Beijing (Dec. 13-14). Visit bea.com/beaworld to register today.
About
BEA
BEA
Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure
software. BEA delivers the 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™ can be found www.bea.com.
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