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BEA AIMS TO IMPROVE RESPONSIVENESS FROM 'MONTHS TO MINUTES'
At its ninth annual technology conference, BEA Systems Inc introduced new
products and services that support Liquid Computing -- BEA's vision of a fluid
enterprise that can change IT responsiveness from "month to minutes." Formerly
code-named Project Sierra, Liquid Computing builds upon a Service- Oriented
Architecture (SOA) foundation, with the ultimate objective of aligning every
enterprise interaction with real-time business goals to help companies become
service-driven enterprises, ultimately achieving enterprise compatibility,
active adaptability and breakthrough productivity.
The new technology, BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition features the
industry-leading application server and critical features of WebLogic
Integration Server to help companies quickly and affordably build SOAs.
Converging the capabilities of application development and Business Process
Management (BPM), WebLogic Server Process Edition allows J2EE developers
leverage powerful BPM tools and frameworks to build complex business solutions
in a shorter amount of time.
During eWorld, BEA will also be offering sneak peeks of Project Alchemy, which
addresses the mobile aspect of Liquid Computing, and Project QuickSilver-an
innovative, XML-based technology that uniquely converges the powerful
capabilities of an enterprise service bus with Web services management.
"BEA's heritage is innovating on behalf of our customers, always with the goal
of reducing complexity and costs. While we've made dramatic inroads to date,
we want to further improve business efficiency with Liquid Computing," said
Alfred Chuang, founder, chairman and CEO of BEA Systems. "Liquid Computing
redefines the economics and responsiveness of IT. It is every CIO aligning
every enterprise interaction with up-to-the minute business goals in not
months, but minutes."
According to industry analyst firm Gartner Group, by 2008 more than 60 percent
of enterprises will use SOA as the "guiding principle" when creating
mission-critical applications and processes. Gartner analyst Yafim Natis has
reiterated the importance of SOAs in enterprises by stating that business that
ignore the potential of SOA will find themselves outpaced by rivals who
improve their agility and transform themselves into new kinds of enterprises.
BEA is in the unique position to help companies reduce IT complexity and costs
through a service-oriented architecture, and eventually achieving the vision
of Liquid Computing. The new technologies and services can help companies
achieve the three pillars of Liquid Computing: enterprise compatibility,
active adaptability and breakthrough productivity.
Enterprise Compatibility
Liquid Computing leverages BEA's model of interoperability over integration to
deliver an incomparable level of compatibility to the entire enterprise. BEA
will deliver Web service-oriented and cross-platform products beyond Java and
the BEA WebLogic Platform with technologies like Project QuickSilver in order
to bring BEA's trusted innovations to customers who want to ensure that
Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle, legacy and other platforms interoperate
seamlessly and transparently. This enhanced communication between previously
incompatible, isolated systems can lead to the delivery of accurate, real-time
information so enterprises can make rapid and informed business decisions.
Active Adaptability
BEA has a rich tradition of helping enterprises be interoperable, which will
provide a foundation for delivering active adaptability. BEA was among the
first companies to offer a robust application server that leveraged clustering
technology to distribute business logic over multiple machines while ensuring
one machine's failure will not shut down the system. BEA further improved upon
adaptability with BEA WebLogic Platform, which provided a unified approach to
allow customers to easily make a change to an application, or integrate a new
application, without disrupting the entire system. Liquid Computing is about
helping customers achieve active adaptability, creating dynamic and fluid
systems that are self-aware and even self-healing so customers can focus less
time on IT maintenance and more time on rolling out services that drive
competitive advantage.
Breakthrough Productivity
BEA delivered unprecedented levels of productivity to a mass market of
developers with BEA WebLogic Workshop and plans to continue to offer
innovations as illustrated in Project Alchemy, to a wider audience including
business analysts, to drive faster business results. As part of the Liquid
Computing vision, line-of-business managers can use business authoring tools
to directly create and modify solutions at the speed of business, while IT
maintains overall systems governance and control. For example, entry-level
designers will be able to use simple scripting to create Web and mobile
applications and administrators will be able to use intuitive Web sites in
order to optimize and change business solutions.
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