BEA Ships SOA-Based Mobile Solution
(San Jose, CA) - BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has released the MobileAware Interaction Server, BEA WebLogic Edition, an integrated, mobile platform designed to help customers mobilize online data and business processes. Targeting enterprises in both the telecommunications industry and other business markets, this innovation can extend the service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology within BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 to provide a simpler, faster, and cost-effective approach to accessing and delivering a broad set of data via diverse mobile devices.

MobileAware Interaction Server, BEA WebLogic Edition, is a new technology platform designed to extend WebLogic Portal to the mobile domain, helping to provide multi-channel access to Web and online assets. Because it is designed to allow companies to leverage existing processes, applications, and software components across multiple channels, the MobileAware Interaction Server, BEA WebLogic Edition can be highly cost-effective.
www.bea.com

Intersperse Completes BEA Validation Program
(Pasadena, CA) - Intersperse Manager 3.0, from Intersperse, Inc., a provider of management solutions for service-oriented enterprise applications, has completed the BEA Validation Program and is now certified on WebLogic Platform 8.1.

Intersperse provides Global 2000 companies and large public sector organizations with products designed for whole-system visibility and real-time control over an enterprise's distributed or service-oriented application environments.

BEA Validation means that Intersperse can offer unique and powerful solutions for the delivery of mission critical applications in a J2EE environment.
www.intersperse.com

New York Board of Trade Implements SOA
(San Jose, CA) - The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) has implemented a BEA-powered SOA, replacing outdated proprietary mainframe technology with the Extensible Clearing System from onExchange, a derivatives and securities trade-processing technology vendor to clearinghouses, banks, and brokerage firms. The system, powered by BEA WebLogic Server, can enable automatic integration with IBM WebSphereMQ messaging products, a business integration product series. The newly implemented NYBOT SOA system will provide reduced risk, cost, and complexity, and ultimately help change the IT economics of the exchange.
www.nybot.com

Arrow Electronics, BEA Systems Launch Channel Partnership
(San Jose, CA, and Englewood, CO) - The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc., and BEA Systems, Inc., have signed a distribution agreement for North America. The agreement provides a select number of Arrow's 1,500 Sun, HP, and IBM partners with access to the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform product line.

This partnership marks BEA's first distribution agreement with a Sun-authorized distributor, giving BEA greater ability to reach the Sun-authorized VAR base.

The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc., is a leading distributor of enterprise and embedded computing systems to resellers and OEM customers in North America.
www.arrow.com

BEA ExpandsPortlet Library; Offers New Tools for WebLogic Portal
(San Jose, CA) - BEA Systems, Inc., has expanded its portlet library, upgraded existing portlet technologies, and enhanced collaboration and integration tools for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1. These expansions and upgrades include new portlets-services and applications that are designed to be easily integrated into portals - for SAP and Siebel; Compoze Portlets, WebLogic Edition for groupware and collaboration; and improved WebLogic Edition tools for collaboration and integration from Kapow Technologies.
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BEA Systems and BMC Software Expand Alliance
(New York) - BMC Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise management solutions, and BEA Systems, Inc., have expanded their alliance to create products and services designed to extend BSM solutions and help integrate BMC Service Impact Manager and BEA Business Process Management (a component of WebLogic Integration). Together, these solutions will be designed to deliver comprehensive business process management as part of an infrastructure, application, service impact, and event management strategy that can help enable customers to manage IT to meet the changing needs of business.

The expanded BMC Software and BEA relationship will create solutions that can help customers take preemptive action to correct IT problems before they create a business process outage. BSM complements BEA Systems' services-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, which can help customers manage services based on business priority.
www.bmc.com

Calpine Deploys Portals on BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1
(San Jose, CA) - Calpine Corporation, a North American power company, has implemented two business-critical portals on BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1.

Calpine employs 3,500 people at plants it owns or leases in 21 states in the U.S., Canada, The Netherlands, and Great Britain. Processes implemented when it was a smaller company needed to evolve to support the requirements of a bigger one.

Calpine was able to implement the new portals on existing hardware, potentially saving the cost of new infrastructure investment. In addition, they were able to incorporate existing applications, which were built with the company's incumbent development technology standard (.NET), into the BEA-powered portals.
www.calpine.com