BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has recently announced that the company continues to rack up honors as the leader in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Already this year, an IDG Research survey has revealed that customers consider BEA the top choice when selecting SOA solutions. In the survey, respondents ranked BEA Number One among companies it would consider for SOA solutions and services in the next 12 months.
“We have been working with BEA since we first implemented SOA and it has been a fantastic partnership,” said Scott Metzger, Chief Technology Officer of TrueCredit. “BEA's solutions give us the required flexibility to develop a heterogeneous infrastructure and the ability to scale our SOA at a pace that works for us.”
“The evidence is clear. The audience that matters most – customers – considers BEA the leader in SOA,” said Diyaa Zebian, General Manager, Middle East & Egypt, eSolutions BEA. “While other companies are spending more money on marketing SOA and working on integrating their own existing products, BEA has products for SOA today. Customers realize BEA can give them the fastest, most cost-effective way to take their SOA from pilot to production.”
SOA is an architectural approach utilized by IT that organizes the discrete functions contained in enterprise applications into standards-based services that may be combined, configured and reused on the fly to meet the ever-changing dynamics of business. This modular approach to IT can contribute to a company’s flexibility, agility and organizational speed.
The BEA portfolio of SOA solutions include AquaLogic, WebLogic and Tuxedo – AquaLogic is the Industry’s leading cross-platform product family optimized for composing, orchestrating, securing and managing SOA throughout the enterprise; WebLogic is the industry’s leading J2EE platform to blend, build, and deploy service-enabled applications; and Tuxedo is the award-winning platform that unlocks legacy applications and extends them to a Service-Oriented Architecture.
Since significantly upgrading its SOA portfolio with the introduction of the AquaLogic product line for service infrastructure needs in June 2005, BEA has experienced significant growth. It has reported three consecutive accelerating license revenue growth, a full18 percent in the fourth quarter when compared to the prior fourth quarter. Today, AquaLogic accounts for approximately 10 percent of BEA revenues – a significant contribution for a product family that was launched in June 2005.
BEA also has expanded its SOA vision further via acquisition, first by purchasing Plumtree, a leader in portals technology, in August 2005, and Fuego, a leader in BPM technology, in March 2006.
BEA’s SOA solutions, the Tuxedo, WebLogic and AquaLogic product families, are also winning rave reviews from industry analysts, industry professionals and reviewers. Examples include:
In March 2006, BEA’s AquaLogic Service Bus™ earned the Editor’s Choice award from Network Computing in a review that included competitors including Oracle and IBM. Network Computing also did a BPM product review in July of 2005. Fuego, which is now the AquaLogic Business Service Interaction family of products, took first place. IBM did not compete in this review
In its “Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005” report, Forrester rated BEA Systems as a leader in the ‘ESB Suites’ segment and in the ‘Comprehensive ESB Suites’ category. BEA was the only company to be named a leader in both segments;
In February 2006, Forrester Research identified BEA’s AquaLogic Data Services Platform™ as the “most comprehensive” solution in the enterprise data virtualization market.
WebLogic is designed to allow customers to unlock and extend their legacy applications to new platforms and accelerate the delivery of SOA--making the free flow of information, processes and services across the business possible. WebLogic Server™ is the critical underpinning and the service delivery vehicle to SOA, and as services become more common place, a business' SOA will only be as strong as the weakest link. Services built on BEA WebLogic Server are rock solid.
Performance and scale are core to any infrastructure platform, especially when using XML and Web services. BEA currently owns the top three throughput results and has demonstrated that WebLogic can scale linearly. WebLogic can also process the same number of transactions on half the hardware as WebSphere. IBM hasn’t published a benchmark since October 2005. Oracle and JBoss have not published any performance benchmarks to date.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software foundation for 14,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® brand are among the most trusted names in business. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 81 offices in 34 countries and is on the web at www.bea.com. For local inquiries, eSolutions BEA can be contacted on e-mail [email protected], Tel: +9714 391 2992 and Fax: +9714 391 2991 and further information can be obtained from its website www.bea.ae
