(August 5, 2003) - BEA Systems, Inc. is now shipping BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic™ 8.1, which is designed to provide a single point of access to enterprise information to accelerate time-to-value of portals, Web applications and business processes. The new product broadens BEA's portfolio of infrastructure software products and is integrated with the recently announced BEA WebLogic Platform™ 8.1.

BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic is part of a new software segment called enterprise information integration. This technology can allow applications to access and combine information on demand from distributed and varied collections of data silos in order to provide people and systems with a complete view of their operations. According to an Aberdeen Group report (July 2003), enterprise information integration software is poised for growth and implementation by a wide variety of Fortune 1000 companies.

BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic 8.1 supports the new versions of the BEA WebLogic products, including BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. Using BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1, data architects and administrators can turn enterprise views of data into BEA WebLogic Workshop controls. The controls can provide developers up to four times the productivity by simplifying access to disparate business information, and through reuse of data services across projects. This rapid development model can accelerate by up to 60 percent the time to value for portals, Web services, integration, and Web application projects, such as customer service and customer self-service portals or executive dashboards. BEA also has improved the distributed query engine of BEA Liquid Data 8.1 in order to deliver scalable, complex join processing transactions. Lastly, BEA has expanded the data source support in the product, and new feature support for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 has been added.