BEA Extends Product Portfolio
(Orlando, FL) - During BEA eWorld 2003, its eighth annual technology conference, BEA Systems, Inc., the world's leading application infrastructure software company, unveiled new products and services designed to meet the main challenge facing enterprises today - business integration. BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 provides custom application development and integration into a single infrastructure.

The new application platform suite enables customers to leverage their existing investments while bringing in new technologies that are designed to insure against rapid obsolescence. This approach offers enterprises a unified and simplified way to build, integrate, extend, and deploy enterprise applications and Web services. The benefit is an industrial-strength software platform that is easier to use and that delivers much faster time to value. www.bea.com

HP Makes Strategic Investments in Web Services Management
(Orlando, FL) - At the BEA eWorld user conference HP Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina outlined several HP investments and technologies to help customers address key management issues that may inhibit the adoption of Web services. Fiorina focused on the critical role Web services management will play in overcoming IT complexity, unifying systems, and accelerating a return on IT investments.

HP will take steps to overcome management barriers to full-scale Web services adoption, including creating a dedicated Web Services Management team within the HP OpenView business unit; a dedicated Web services management and deployment practice for J2EE environments within HP Services; an expanded HP OpenView software suite that will help customers manage and optimize all industry-leading application servers and Web services environments; and plans to make a major contribution to standards efforts, allowing companies to incorporate management capabilities in Web services, rather than take a "build later" approach. www.hp.com.

NEON Systems' Shadow Supports WebLogic Workshop, Liquid Data
(Orlando, FL) - NEON Systems, Inc., has announced support for BEA WebLogic Workshop and BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic. The combination of Shadow technology with BEA WebLogic Workshop and Liquid Data for WebLogic will enable developers to assemble composite applications that integrate mainframe resources using drag-and-drop techniques, while masking mainframe complexity and reducing the need for advanced Java programming skills. www.neonsys.com

Wily Integrates Introscope 4.0 with WebLogic Server 8.1
(Orlando, FL) - Wily Technology has announced the direct integration of Introscope 4.0, the newest version of their comprehensive Enterprise Java Application Management solution, with BEA WebLogic Server 8.1.

Introscope looks into the entire application environment, allowing IT teams to identify performance problems whether inside the application itself, the application server, or in back-end transactional and supporting systems. www.wilytech.com

Cyanea Systems Provides App Management for WebLogic Server
(Orlando, FL) - Cyanea Systems Corp. has integrated its flagship solution, Cyanea/One, with BEA WebLogic Server to provide comprehensive monitoring and management of large-scale applications.

Cyanea develops advanced monitoring and management solutions for Web-based applications, providing application developers, test personnel, and data center managers with the ability to rapidly identify and resolve problems, and minimize downtime of critical business applications. www.cyanea.com

BEA Announces Factory Integration Using Sun Microsystems' Program
(Orlando, FL) - BEA Systems, Inc., has announced factory integration of BEA products through Sun Microsystems' Customer Ready Systems (Sun CRS) program, demonstrating yet another advantage of best-in-class solutions by way of a global alliance. Through the Sun CRS program, customers can get a complete BEA/Sun solution, integrated in Sun factories and built to customers' specifications. Use of Sun CRS is intended to speed time to ROI, maximize productivity, and help lower total cost of ownership for BEA application infrastructure solutions. www.sun.com

SandCherry Offers Speech, Multimodal Capabilities
(Orlando, FL) - SandCherry, Inc., will partner with BEA Systems to offer speech and multimodal capabilities to businesses that already rely on BEA WebLogic Server and BEA WebLogic Portal for customer service, workforce management, content, and messaging applications. The complementary solution is designed to provide a reliable, high-performance platform to run Web applications, service elements to the media components on the SandCherry SoftServer platform, and integrate with back-office systems and databases.

SandCherry's SoftServer platform provides applications with dynamic, reliable, managed access to a variety of speech recognition, text-to-speech, and announcement components from leading vendors to deliver the audio components for voice and multimodal applications. www.sandcherry.com

SEAGULL Joins BEA Star Partner Program
(Orlando, FL) - SEAGULL has joined BEA Systems' Star Partner Program. SEAGULL's LegaSuite software solutions complement the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform by automating and accelerating the seamless integration of legacy business processes into new applications. www.seagullsw.com