BEA Delivers Foundation for WorkSpace 360 at BEAWorld San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BEAWorld -- BEA Systems, Inc. , a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced the first product component of WorkSpace 360(TM) with the release of BEA AquaLogic Registry Repository 3.0. WorkSpace 360 is designed to help empower business analysts, architects, developers and IT operations to collaborate more efficiently on every aspect and every role in the delivery of service-oriented applications. Workspace 360 is an important first step in the realization of BEA's Project Genesis vision (see today's accompanying release) which is designed to extend the power of collaborative application delivery beyond business analysts and IT to end-users to enable a new breed of dynamic business applications.

Corporations today face the significant challenge of aligning their business goals with their IT capabilities. While organizations have a hard time conveying requirements to IT, IT has difficulty conveying the complexity of fulfilling those requirements to the business leads. BEA's WorkSpace 360 aims to address this challenge. As a critical foundation for Workspace 360, BEA AquaLogic Registry Repository 3.0 can provide shared metadata management and structured workflow processes that are designed to improve coordination and collaboration across multiple business and IT constituents as they design, build, deliver and manage applications.

"A growing number of organizations are starting to evolve and mature their SOA implementations beyond pilot projects into more enterprise-wide implementations. Through WorkSpace 360, we can offer more sophisticated capabilities designed to address the assembly of their SOA and BPM investments into dynamic business applications," said Paul Patrick, vice president and chief architect for BEA. "With WorkSpace 360 we're combining our product technologies, people, best practices and broad network of partners to deliver maximum business value to our customers."

WorkSpace 360 can provide greater interoperability across the BEA product portfolio and is designed to be pluggable and adaptable in order to help protect current and future investments via the Metadata Interoperability Framework. This first wave of WorkSpace 360 capabilities is designed to include:

    -- A central repository for sharing and managing metadata to enable a more
       seamless flow of information across the stages of the lifecycle.
    -- Embedded workflow in BEA AquaLogic Registry Repository 3.0 to provide a
       structured process for managing assets as they are developed.
    -- Unified tooling across the BEA portfolio to create a seamless
       navigation and to provide an optimized experience for users.
    -- Open metadata interoperability framework for integration with the
       WorkSpace 360 framework by third-party technologies.
    -- Embedded governance and control throughout the lifecycle to help ensure
       that dynamic business applications are defined, designed, built and run
       in alignment with business goals and objectives.

For more information on BEA WorkSpace 360, please go the WorkSpace 360 booth at BEAWorld at The Moscone Center in San Francisco September 10-12 for a live demo.

About BEAWorld

BEAWorld is the premier event for SOA thought leadership and is scheduled to take place in three strategic world markets spanning the Americas, Europe and Asia. The conference is designed to provide critical insights, hands-on instruction, best-practice strategies and opportunities for interaction with like-minded professionals, industry leaders, visionaries and expert practitioners.

In addition to highlighting the innovation and tangible business results BEA customers have achieved, BEAWorld is the place to find the latest information on BEA infrastructure technologies including BEA Tuxedo(R), BEA WebLogic(R), BEA AquaLogic(R) and BEA Enterprise 360°. This year's event will also include a Solutions Showcase, exhibiting the latest and most innovative developments from the extensive BEA partner community.

The first of three planned worldwide events is scheduled to be held in the Moscone West building in San Francisco (Sept. 10-12). Two additional shows are scheduled in the following cities: Barcelona (Oct. 2-4) and Shanghai (Dec. 12-13).

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. Information about how BEA helps customers build a Liquid Enterprise(TM) that transforms their business can be found at bea.com.