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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 11, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 32
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Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:
BEA Liquid Data For WebLogic 8.1 Ships
BEA Systems, Inc., a leading application infrastructure software company,
announced the general availability of BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic 8.1, which
is designed to provide a single point of access to enterprise information to
accelerate time-to-value of portals, web applications and business processes.
The new product broadens BEA's portfolio of infrastructure software products
and is integrated with the recently announced BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.
BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic is part of a new software segment called
enterprise information integration. This technology can allow applications to
access and combine information on demand from distributed and varied
collections of data silos in order to provide people and systems with a
complete view of their operations. According to an Aberdeen Group report (July
2003), enterprise information integration software is poised for growth and
implementation by a wide variety of Fortune 1000 companies.
BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic 8.1 supports the new versions of the BEA WebLogic
products, including BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. Using BEA WebLogic Workshop
8.1, the common development environment of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, data
architects and administrators can turn enterprise views of data into BEA
WebLogic Workshop controls. The controls can provide developers up to four-
times the productivity by simplifying access to disparate business
information, and through reuse of data services across projects.
This rapid development model can accelerate by up to 60 percent the time to
value for portals, Web services, integration and Web application projects,
such as customer service and customer self-service portals or executive
dashboards. BEA also has improved the distributed query engine of BEA Liquid
Data 8.1 in order to deliver scalable, complex join processing transactions.
Lastly, BEA has expanded the data source support in the product, and new
feature support for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 and BEA WebLogic
Integration 8.1 has been added.
"Customers see that data integration is a key element to help portals improve
user efficiency by providing the right information at the right time," said
David Folger, vice president, META Group. "As such, customers today are
searching for information integration products to make their internal and
external portals smarter."
BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic 8.1 is designed to provide the most cost-
effective way to rapidly aggregate critical business information in real time
from diverse data sources, to include databases, XML files, CSV files, Web
applications, packaged applications and more. BEA Liquid Data 8.1 can increase
information visibility and accelerate business results by turning enterprise
data into complete, consistent and tailored business views. These logical
views of information can quickly aggregate the latest real-time information
from both inside and outside large organizations, and deliver these views as
business information services within organization's service-oriented
architecture.
"BEA Liquid Data provides technical architects with a new tool to alleviate
the headaches of information management and data aggregation from a variety of
databases, subsystems and external applications," said Kevin Pollari, partner
in charge of Accenture's Java development group. "The potential benefits of
BEA Liquid Data are enticing, and Accenture has several pilot projects
underway. We believe that Liquid Data can help improve data access in complex
enterprise applications."
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