Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
Confluent Software Strengthens
Alliance With BEA
Confluent Software Inc., a leader in Web services monitoring and management
software, announced an enhanced partnership with BEA Systems, Inc., the
world's leading application infrastructure software company, to co-sell and
market the Confluent CORE for BEA solution. Confluent is the first Web
services management company to have this level of partnership with BEA.
Enterprise customers developing and deploying service oriented
architectures
(SOA) on the BEA platform can reduce the total lifecycle costs and
complexities of building, managing and evolving enterprise-class Web services
based applications. The Confluent and BEA relationship brings tangible value
to existing and new customers that are deploying SOA in their enterprise
environments -- including the optimization of software and information assets
and the ability to consistently implement IT best practices and policies.
"Our partnership with Confluent underscores our commitment to providing
customers with solutions for successful enterprise class SOA initiatives,"
said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager, global software
partners, BEA Systems. "Web services management platforms like Confluent CORE
reduce the total life cycle cost for customers designing and developing Web
service-based applications, while reducing the risks of deployment, making SOA
compliant management a reality for enterprises now."
The agreement extends previous initiatives of both companies to drive down
development costs and make new applications manageable out of the box. Both
companies bring to the relationship the understanding that monitoring and
management is a life cycle problem that begins with design and development of
Web services applications. Confluent and BEA can provide developers access to
the tools necessary to construct integration and interoperation during design
time, rather than cobbling together such strategies later in the product
lifecycle.
Under the agreement the companies will co-sell their respective products
including the recently announced CORE for BEA solution that extends BEA
WebLogic Workshop capabilities. CORE for BEA is designed to help developers
easily build the management and security required for Web services into an
application, thereby reducing the costs and risks of deploying distributed
applications. Confluent CORE is the first Web services management product
tightly integrated with BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1.
"The Confluent and BEA alliance gives our enterprise customers a solution
today to implement service-oriented architecture for corporate wide business
deployments," said Rajiv Gupta, founder and CEO of Confluent Software, Inc.
"Working together, Confluent and BEA will help customers save money and time
in the development, deployment, monitoring and management of Web services-
based applications."
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