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BEA DELIVERS SOA KIT WITH WebLogic SERVER PROCESS EDITION

BEA Systems Inc announced the general availability of BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition, designed to help enable companies to quickly and cost-effectively experience the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA). BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition, a premium edition of the industry's leading application server, combines application development and business process management (BPM), which are designed to help provide a unique "Process-Driven" approach to creating and maintaining service-oriented applications.

SOA is a standards-based organizational and design methodology that can more closely align IT with business processes to increase business responsiveness and help drive down complexity and costs. As companies move to service-enable new and existing enterprise resources, the ability to rapidly compose, orchestrate and expose these services will help define how well IT can meet the needs of the business. BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition is among the first in its class designed to provide service enablement, service orchestration and composite application development from a single Integrated Development Environment (IDE) running on unified run-time architecture. The product is the first to leverage a powerful BPM framework that can allow for a "Process-Driven" approach, which is designed to help users easily and rapidly develop, orchestrate and maintain composite services and applications that can be aligned to their business process needs graphically, and where appropriate, through Java.

"Covad has a complex business process, spanning Covad's national network and several third party suppliers, designed to automatically fulfill service changes," said Paul Grantham, vice president of software and information systems at Covad. "We welcome BEA's new business process infrastructure as a way to help simplify support and to extend the automation even further."

BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition is one component of BEA's Liquid Computing vision of improving IT responsiveness from "months-to-minutes." Liquid Computing, an SOA-based approach to IT, is designed to offer the next generation of business integration that can help to reduce complexity and fundamentally change the economics of enterprise computing. The tight integration built into the industry-leading BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 is designed to address customers' needs as they adopt more robust SOA-based technologies. BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition and BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 share a common administration, security, development and runtime framework, designed to allow customers to easily upgrade existing architectures as their requirements increase over time.

"BEA's WebLogic Server Process Edition offers our customers the opportunity to 'start-smart' on an SOA project right away in a manner designed to be cost-effective and results-based," said Tod Nielsen, executive vice president of products organization at BEA Systems. "Businesses are adopting BEA's SOA and Liquid Computing principles in their own infrastructure because many can see almost immediate value and return on investment through our platform and unified architecture approach to service enablement, orchestration and composite applications. This new product is designed to help start customers down the path of SOA and Liquid Computing and sends a strong message about the importance of business and technology innovation at BEA."