BEA rated leader in enterprise infrastructure software by Forrester

New Delhi: BEA

Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software,

announced that Forrester has named BEA an enterprise service bus market leader

in its recent report entitled, “The Enterprise Service Bus: The Forrester Wave

Product Evaluation, Q2 2006.”

BEA's was named a leader in the enterprise service bus (ESB) space. Forrester

defines an ESB as "an intermediary that makes a set of reusable business

services widely available." According to the report, “the total value of

the BEA solution is most compelling when the customer uses multiple BEA products

to provide a complete SOA environment. Organizations seeking high-end ESBs will

find the combination of ALSB and WLI to be a powerful, yet flexible, alternative

for supporting their efforts to implement SOA - even where other platforms also

need to be accommodated.”

AquaLogic Service Bus, BEA's offering in the ESB product category, is part

of the AquaLogic product family and plays an important role in the company's

service infrastructure market strategy. This strategy is designed to deliver a

complete SOA

platform that helps enable business transformation and optimization, while

helping organizations reduce their cost structures and grow new revenue streams.

BEA's service infrastructure strategy was announced on June 9, 2005, along with

the company's Think

Liquid vision and AquaLogic product line.

“Being recognized as an ESB leader by Forrester is further testament to our

technology, vision and innovation," said Tony de la Lama, BEA vice

president, Integration Products. "Companies are always looking to speed

services deployment and simplify service-oriented architecture management while

enhancing existing investments in heterogeneous environments. BEA's AquaLogic

Service Bus is designed to provide our customers with those capabilities."

Enterprise service bus cited BEA as a leader in both the 'ESB Suites'

segment and in the 'Comprehensive ESB Suites' category. It was the only

company to be named a leader in both segments. Forrester

investigated the enterprise service bus offerings of eight vendors and evaluated

these products based on three criteria: product offering, vendor strategy and

market presence.

According to the latest report, “BEA's overall product portfolio of

application development tools, application platform, portal, and others provides

one of the broader total solutions for service-oriented architecture (SOA)

available today.” BEA AquaLogic Service Bus is designed to offer intelligent

messaging, routing and transformation that can support heterogeneous end-points,

combined with capabilities for service registration, monitoring and lifecycle

management. It can converge the integration capabilities of an enterprise

service bus with operational service management in a single software product,

helping to accelerate configuration and deployment and to simplify ongoing

operations of shared services across the service-oriented architecture (SOA).

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AquaLogic Service Bus is also designed to deliver dynamic routing, protocol

brokering and transformation, through a meta-data driven configuration

environment that can help accommodate change by removing the management of

services from the services themselves, thus creating an agile SOA infrastructure

that can be responsive to changing business needs.

The AquaLogic product family offers an open and independent platform for

developing, deploying, managing and operating a complete SOA in heterogeneous

computing environments, including .Net, Java or legacy systems. BEA AquaLogic is

designed to enable software services to be composed once and leveraged anywhere,

so that it can help customers turn isolated or "frozen" IT assets into

Enterprise Liquid Assets and help enable them to respond faster to the pace of

modern business.