Family; New BEA WebLogic Event Server is the Only Java Application Server
Optimized for High Volume, Real Time, Event-Oriented Applications
Core News Facts
1. BEA is entering the Event Driven Architecture (EDA) market with the
first and only Java application server, WebLogic Event Server, designed
for event-driven applications. To learn more, visit
http://www.bea.com/eventdrivensoa.
2. WebLogic Event Server combined with BEA WebLogic Real Time and BEA
WebLogic Virtual Edition brings key capabilities for event-driven SOA
and provides the rock-solid foundation for extreme transaction
processing (XTP).
3. WebLogic Event Server is another example of how BEA continues to
innovate across its WebLogic product family.
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 29 /-/ BEA Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: BEAS) a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced its entry into Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) with a new product offering designed to enable event-driven SOA in Java environments. BEA WebLogic(R) Event Server is the first and only Java application server optimized to handle large volumes of streaming data, predictable real-time response requirements and complex event processing (CEP). Until now, being able to manage these types of event requirements in real time and with high predictability has not been possible in Java. As it did with its real-time and virtualization technologies, BEA brings Java to new frontiers once again with WebLogic Event Server (http://www.bea.com/eventserver), successfully addressing these issues while delivering the productivity, adaptability and cost benefits uniquely afforded by Java.
A significant benefit of BEA's approach is that, unlike competitors with standalone CEP engines, WebLogic Event Server is a lightweight but full- featured application server platform with event features built in, enabling customers to build their applications on the platform without having to integrate a CEP engine with a separate general-purpose platform. Starting with the product's complete infrastructure, customers avoid much overhead and can bring new event-driven applications to market quickly. This approach also makes it easier to add event-oriented functionality to existing applications.
The company's move into EDA underscores and addresses the growing pressure on organizations to consume the high proliferation of data flooding into enterprises today -- data which is often unpredictable and complex -- and make instant and insightful business decisions that will yield the greatest return in new revenue streams, customer satisfaction and competitive differentiation. This pressure is compounded by the need to achieve greater efficiencies throughout the enterprise. However, applications today don't support the scale needed to manage these new requirements and are being written in languages like C/C++ which can be quite costly.
WebLogic Event Server offers the ability to handle a high volume of complex events with the speed and predictability that are expected in C/C++ but at the much lower total cost of ownership (TCO) of Java. WebLogic Event Server, combined with BEA WebLogic Real Time (http://www.bea.com/realtime) and BEA WebLogic Server Virtual Edition (http://www.bea.com/virtualization), not only brings key capabilities for event-driven SOA but also provides the rock-solid foundation critical to enabling the deployment of large-scale business-critical applications on mainstream hardware known as extreme transaction processing (XTP).
"WebLogic Event Server plays a foundational role in an event-driven architecture, SOA and into the extreme transaction space at the top of the illities scale where BEA is known and dominates," said Guy Churchward, Vice President of WebLogic Products at BEA Systems, Inc. "We expect interest and adoption of event-driven SOA to explode over the coming months and believe that BEA, as the only platform vendor to offer high performance, complex event processing capabilities for Java, is in a unique position to take full advantage of this market opportunity."
WebLogic Event Server aggregates information from distributed systems in real time and applies rules to discern patterns and trends that might otherwise go unnoticed. This gives companies the ability to model, identify, anticipate and instantly respond to opportunities and threats represented by seemingly unrelated events. The product serves as an infrastructure for certain key aspects of SOA, enabling high-performance computing without modification of current or planned SOA infrastructure, thereby allowing companies to maximize the investments they already have in place. In addition, WebLogic Event Server provides XTP support, delivering high throughput, high predictability and real-time response to help companies meet rigorous service level agreements (SLAs). The product provides support for simple Java (POJO) programming and the Spring Framework, as well as an Event Processing Language (EPL) that augments and extends SQL in defining the temporal rules and non- linear rule application critical for event processing.
WebLogic Event Server is the first BEA product to be completely based on the company's microService Architecture (mSA)(http://www.bea.com/msa), a component architecture designed to be open, interoperable, embeddable and naturally extensible for third-party development. mSA is the underlying architecture behind BEA SOA 360°. Announced last Fall, SOA 360° spans BEA's three product families - BEA AquaLogic(R) (http://www.bea.com/aqualogic), BEA WebLogic (http://www.bea.com/weblogic) and BEA Tuxedo(R) (http://www.bea.com/tuxedo) -- and is designed for business transformation and optimization in order to improve cost structures and grow revenue streams.
Availability
Public beta for WebLogic Event Server starts on May 29, 2007. The product will be generally available in Summer 2007. For more information, visit http://www.bea.com/eventserver.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software. BEA's SOA 360 platform is the industry's most unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization, in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to achieve Business LiquidITyTM can be found at http://www.bea.com.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding the scheduled public data release of WebLogic Event Server, the product's ability to handle large volumes of streaming data, predictable real-time response requirements and CEP and the productivity, adaptability and cost benefits which can be derived therefrom, handle a high volume of complex events with the speed and predictability that are expected in C/C++ but at the much lower total cost of ownership (TCO) of Java, its ability to enable the deployment of large-scale business-critical applications, the ability to model, identify, anticipate and instantly respond to opportunities and threats represented by seemingly unrelated events and the product's ability to be an extension to SOA, enabling high-performance computing without modification of current or planned SOA infrastructure, thereby allowing companies to maximize the investments they already have in place, provide XTP support, and help companies meet SLAs, the general interest in and adoption of event-driven SOA and BEA's ability to capitalize on it, Deutsche Bank's adoption of WebLogic Event Server and the positive impact that such adoption will have on Deutsche Bank's business, and the product's ability to make it easy to define rules and either add or change business logic. and the features and the benefits of BEA's products. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: any unforeseen changes in the technology, standards or marketplace for enterprise information integration software; the timing of a recovery from any economic and IT industry downturn; any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the development of BEA's solutions; and any software errors related to BEA's solutions. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2006 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed thereafter by BEA from time- to-time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.
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