Emirates Bank International adopts BEA's WebLogic Platform

BEA's WebLogic Platform 7.0 comprising of BEA's WebLogic Server 7.0 and Weblogic Integration 7.0 has enabled EBI to upgrade its banking system to provide a common platform for multiple applications.

"At EBI, we strive to provide our customers with the most reliable and advanced banking services. After an extensive study of various systems, we found that BEA's WebLogic Platform was best suited for our numerous requirements," said Naushad Kermalli, Group Systems Development Manager, Emirates Bank International. "The banking industry in the UAE is extremely competitive and it is necessary to keep up to the industry's technological standards. This system, which makes adequate use of the technology gives us a strategic advantage over our competitors. The platform provides us with higher availability, and is a state of the art system which is Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliant," he added.

Designed to provide customers with a single architecture for the development, integration and customization of enterprise software, BEA WebLogic Platform 7.0 is the industry's first software infrastructure product to unify, simplify and extend all aspects of enterprise application development and integration, and to provide a common platform to easily build and deploy Web services.

Unlike other platforms, the WebLogic Platform 7.0 is an application developer that does not need to have expertise in J2EE. This application allows for smooth integration as it provides portability across various platforms and interoperability between J2EE compliant applications. BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 supports J2EE 1.3, the latest specification from JavaSoft that provides BEA customers with the services necessary to build scalable and dependable J2EE applications and Web services.

BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 offers enhanced web services utilities for integrating applications. It supports conversational Web services, which is the vital aspect of application-to-application communication. The server provides full interoperability with other key Web services vendors ensuring that the applications can fully integrate in a Web services based environment.

"BEA's WebLogic Platform 7.0 provides a unified, simplified, and extensible application infrastructure for business transformation while also answering the call for mission-critical reliability and scalability in financial services," said Diyaa Zebian, Business Development Manager, eSolutions BEA. "EBI will be able to integrate both their services and data in addition to leveraging their existing investments by integrating their systems. Having proven itself in demanding environments, BEA's WebLogic server provides new revamped core integration services extended by BEA's WebLogic Integration 7.0. This will provide EBI with full application integration capabilities" he added.

"We have seen a major leap with Internet banking, which has caught on rapidly and become an ongoing trend since we launched the me-bank," said Nadeem Busheri, IT Operations Manager, Emirates Bank International. "We want to be able to keep up with our customer demands and be able to provide efficiency in the banking system. We are in the process of launching two products in the first quarter of 2003 based on the BEA WebLogic Platform 7.0 to enhance our web services," he said. "Our customers will be able to benefit from high availability and better response in terms of transactions."