New Evaluation Underscores Strength of BEA WebLogic Portal in the Market
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Jan. 17, 2005—http://bea.com/more_info.jsp?p=268&r=6.16 BEA Systems (Nasdaq:BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced it has been ranked as a market leader in META Group’s METAspectrum(sm) report for enterprise portal frameworks. META Group is a leading provider of information technology (IT) research, advisory services, and strategic consulting.
The new METAspectrum evaluation is designed to provide an objective assessment of portal products that can provide a set of infrastructure services needed to produce personalized, contextual Web sites intended for use across an entire company, including all types and levels of employees, as well as partners, suppliers, and customers.
BEA was positioned in the leader segment of the Enterprise Portal Framework METAspectrum analysis and was specifically recognized for its agility in responding to market needs, its channel and partner program, as well as its excellent development and security features.
“We are pleased by our favourable rating in the METAspectrum,” said Wai Wong, executive vice president, products organization, BEA Systems. “Our customers are investing in technology that is designed to help them drive complexity out of their IT environments and rationalize their existing software infrastructure. BEA WebLogic Portal™ can help them accomplish these goals. BEA has put significant resources behind its R&D efforts to develop technology that is as widely accepted as our leading application server. We’re pleased that we are being recognized and commended for our efforts.”
BEA WebLogic Portal is designed to leverage a unified architecture with BEA WebLogic Platform™ in order to help ease portal development, integration, customization and deployment. BEA can help enable customers to focus on using IT to help increase collaboration and help manage business processes by providing a platform designed for building enterprise portals that can help to aggregate, organize, and present information from multiple back-end systems.
“We developed METAspectrum to help enable IT professionals to more quickly evaluate vendors based on their ability to deliver on the presence and performance criteria that matter most in a given market,” said Craig Roth, Vice President, META Group. “As the portal market has matured and vendors have become more stable, new buyers have emerged, seeking not only lower prices, but also security, easy-to-use administration, lower total cost of ownership and a strong vision to continue building and improving the product. We believe that only vendors that have strong focus and dedication as well as remaining agile and responsive to changing demands can succeed.”
About METAspectrum
METAGroup’s METAspectrum(SM) methodology provides a framework for evaluating or selecting an appropriate IT vendor or product, simplifies the decision process, and enables more effective technology investments. META Group’s research efforts, which adhere to the company’s commitment to objectivity, are conducted independently, based on industry best-practice methodologies and subject to the highest levels of review by META Group’s research community. To learn more about METAspectrum, visit metagroup.com/metaspectrum or call 800-945-META.
