BEA Announces AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 to Enable Enterprise-Wide SOA Deployments

BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 Can Help Organizations Achieve Faster ROI with Easy-to-use, Code-free and Configuration-based Service Integration; Designed to Scale to Enterprise-wide SOA Deployments that Involve Building Composite, Cross-domain Applications






SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BEAWorld -- BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced the release of BEA AquaLogic(R) Service Bus 3.0, a comprehensive enterprise service bus (ESB) that is designed to improve the integration process for enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments. The solution is an SOA integration platform designed to connect, mediate and manage interactions between heterogeneous services, legacy applications and multiple ESB instances across an enterprise-wide service network.

"The same factors that lead a large company to acquire heterogeneous applications (differing requirements) also cause them to organize SOA initiatives into different domains -- a typical epicenter being a business unit. Initially, more than 90% of SOA interactions are confined within a single SOA domain. However as organizations develop a robust service portfolio the proportion of interdomain interactions increases as services are used in composite applications developed in other business units and to automate business processes that span organizational boundaries. Multiple requirements arise as service use increases. Performance must continue to meet expectations, QoS must be assured and appropriate service level-agreements, established. Also, organizations must ensure that they effectively manage a rapidly growing portfolio of diverse assets (e.g., services, policies, business processes) and publicize the availability of these assets," said Jess Thompson, research vice president, Gartner Research. "This will require organizations to effectively manage a portfolio of diverse assets (e.g., services, policies, business processes) and publicize the availability of these assets. Moreover, as the use of and dependence on services grows so do the requirements for dependable service level agreements and effective governance."

For organizations that adopted SOA to align IT initiatives with business strategies to compete in today's business environment, ESB technology acts as the essential link between business processes and services to help enterprises rapidly change with ever-evolving business needs. BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 is designed to be a comprehensive, light-weight SOA backbone to help IT organizations create configuration-driven and reusable service components, service enable legacy applications and quickly build new SOA-based applications for enabling enterprise agility.

"Whether an organization is looking to undertake its first SOA project or to augment its legacy applications, the new integration and scalability features in the latest version of BEA AquaLogic Service Bus can help unlock business value from siloed applications and give organizations a competitive edge through a more agile infrastructure," said Thanh Tran, senior vice president of AquaLogic products for BEA Systems. "As a result, organizations may increase time-to-market, lower total cost of ownership and improve ROI."

BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 enhances BEA WorkSpace 360 degrees(TM) by providing configuration-driven service integration with plug-ins to the BEA WorkSpace 360 degrees unified design environment. Businesses may benefit from faster release cycles due to ease-of-use, quicker time-to-market and increased developer productivity.

BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 is also designed to serve as the backbone for a flexible, reusable well-governed service network that allows enterprises to help build dynamic business applications.

  New features and key customer benefits include:
  --  Enterprise-wide service network comprising multiple SOA domains -- BEA
      AquaLogic Service Bus mediates and provides location-independent
      access to services across an enterprise-wide service network spanning
      multiple SOA domains. BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 leverages services
      distributed across multiple SOA domains to build high-value composite
      applications.
  --  Enhanced embedded management and quality of service (QoS) -- BEA
      AquaLogic Service Bus offers optimized runtime, optimized connectivity
      to other BEA AquaLogic products and embedded management capabilities
      to provide policy-based load balancing, throttling and service
      pooling. These capabilities may enhance the performance, scalability
      and QoS for the SOA.
  --  BEA SmartConnect -- BEA AquaLogic Service Bus provides optimized
      native transports for leading ERP and packaged applications that,
      together with connectivity to WebsphereMQ and WebSphere application
      server-based applications, can enable IT to build composite
      applications by leveraging the SOA-enabled, as well as non-SOA legacy
      assets. Unlike typical adaptors, BEA SmartConnect not only can connect
      and leverage non-SOA legacy assets, but it can also help manage them
      by propagating security and transaction credentials.
  --  Unified SOA and BPM -- BEA AquaLogic Service Bus delivers
      out-of-the-box integration with BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite which can help
      achieve greater alignment between IT services with business processes.
      BEA AquaLogic Service Bus provides an integrated unified design
      environment so that organizations may leverage service components to
      participate in composite, multi-domain business processes.
  --  ESB and SOA Governance -- BEA AquaLogic Services Bus, when implemented
      with BEA SOA Governance products, is designed to deliver end-to-end
      visibility and control across the entire service network. BEA
      AquaLogic Service Bus can provide out-of-the-box seamless integration
      with BEA AquaLogic(R) Registry Repository and BEA AquaLogic SOA
      Management as part of the BEA SOA Governance solution. BEA AquaLogic
      Service Bus is designed with built-in capabilities for service
      virtualization, WS-Security and enforcement of policies around
      throttling and service pooling. These capabilities are leveraged
      within the BEA SOA Governance solution and may enable better control
      of services across the enterprise-wide service network comprising
      multiple SOA domains to enable consistent QoS, control and visibility.


  Availability


BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 will be available in Q1 of 2008. For more information on BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0, please visit http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=index.htm&FP=/content/products/aqualogic/ service_bus/.

About BEAWorld

BEAWorld is the premier event for SOA thought leadership and takes place in three strategic world markets spanning the Americas, Europe and Asia. The conference is designed to provide critical insights, hands-on instruction, best-practice strategies and opportunities for interaction with like-minded professionals, industry leaders, visionaries and expert practitioners.

In addition to highlighting the innovation and tangible business results BEA customers have achieved, BEAWorld is the place to find the latest information on BEA infrastructure technologies including BEA Tuxedo(R), BEA WebLogic(R) and BEA AquaLogic(R). This year's event will also include a Solutions Showcase, exhibiting the latest and most innovative developments from the extensive BEA partner community.

The third of three worldwide events is scheduled to be held in Shanghai (Dec. 12-13). The first event was held in San Francisco (Sept. 10-12), and the second event was held in Barcelona (Oct. 2-4).

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to transform their business by building a Liquid Enterprise(TM) can be found at bea.com.

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