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June 04, 2007
BEA Addresses EDA With WebLogic Event Server
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 29 -- BEA Systems Inc.,
a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced
its entry into event-driven architecture (EDA) with a new product
offering designed to enable event-driven SOA in Java environments. BEA
WebLogic Event Server is the first and only Java application server
optimized to handle large volumes of streaming data, predictable
real-time response requirements and complex event processing (CEP).
Until now, being able to manage these types of event requirements in
real time and with high predictability has not been possible in Java.
As it did with its real-time and virtualization technologies, BEA
brings Java to new frontiers once again with WebLogic Event Server,
successfully addressing these issues while delivering the productivity,
adaptability and cost benefits uniquely afforded by Java.
A significant benefit of BEA's approach is that, unlike competitors
with standalone CEP engines, WebLogic Event Server is a lightweight but
full-featured application server platform with event features built
in, enabling customers to build their applications on the platform
without having to integrate a CEP engine with a separate
general-purpose platform. Starting with the product's complete
infrastructure, customers avoid much overhead and can bring new
event-driven applications to market quickly. This approach also makes
it easier to add event-oriented functionality to existing applications.
The company's move into EDA underscores and addresses the growing
pressure on organizations to consume the high proliferation of data
flooding into enterprises today -- data which is often unpredictable
and complex -- and make instant and insightful business decisions that
will yield the greatest return in new revenue streams, customer
satisfaction and competitive differentiation. This pressure is
compounded by the need to achieve greater efficiencies throughout the
enterprise. However, applications today don't support the scale needed
to manage these new requirements and are being written in languages
like C/C++ which can be quite costly.
WebLogic Event Server offers the ability to handle a high volume of
complex events with the speed and predictability that are expected in
C/C++ but at the much lower total cost of ownership of Java.
WebLogic Event Server, combined with BEA WebLogic Real Time (www.bea.com/realtime) and BEA WebLogic Server Virtual Edition (www.bea.com/virtualization),
not only brings key capabilities for event-driven SOA, but also provides
the rock-solid foundation critical to enabling the deployment of
large-scale business-critical applications on mainstream hardware known
as extreme transaction processing (XTP).
"WebLogic Event Server plays a foundational role in an event-driven
architecture, SOA and into the extreme transaction space at the top of
the illities scale where BEA is known and dominates," said Guy
Churchward, vice president of WebLogic products at BEA Systems.
"We expect interest and adoption of event-driven SOA to explode over
the coming months and believe that BEA, as the only platform vendor to
offer high performance, complex event processing capabilities for Java,
is in a unique position to take full advantage of this market
opportunity."
WebLogic Event Server aggregates information from distributed
systems in real time and applies rules to discern patterns and trends
that might otherwise go unnoticed. This gives companies the ability to
model, identify, anticipate and instantly respond to opportunities and
threats represented by seemingly unrelated events. The product serves
as an infrastructure for certain key aspects of SOA, enabling
high-performance computing without modification of current or planned
SOA infrastructure, thereby allowing companies to maximize the
investments they already have in place. In addition, WebLogic Event
Server provides XTP support, delivering high throughput, high
predictability and real-time response to help companies meet rigorous
service level agreements (SLAs). The product provides support for
simple Java (POJO) programming and the Spring Framework, as well as an event-processing language (EPL) that augments and extends SQL in
defining the temporal rules and non-linear rule application critical
for event processing.
WebLogic Event Server is the first BEA product to be completely based on the company's microService Architecture (mSA, www.bea.com/msa), a component architecture designed to be open, interoperable, embeddable and naturally extensible for third-party development. mSA is the underlying architecture behind BEA SOA 360°. Announced last Fall, SOA 360° spans BEA's three product families -- BEA AquaLogic (www.bea.com/aqualogic), BEA WebLogic (www.bea.com/weblogic) and BEA Tuxedo (www.bea.com/tuxedo) -- and is designed for business transformation and optimization in order to improve cost structures and grow revenue streams.
About BEA Systems
BEA Systems Inc. is a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software. BEA's SOA 360 platform is the industry's most 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 at www.bea.com/.
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Source: BEA Systems Inc.
