BEA announces the launch of Weblogic Platform 8.1, the first truly integrated application platform in the Middle East

The platform brings to the market BEA's key products: WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Integration, WebLogic Server and WebLogic Portal.

"The introduction of the WebLogic Platform 8.1 will provide an important benefit to growing businesses in the Middle East, as it enables companies to lower costs and increase returns on IT assets, thus creating overall efficiency. We have registered more than 17,000 downloads worldwide of the beta versions of the four products, several positive product reviews and more than 50 participants in the managed beta program. As an increasing number of businesses migrate to IT-driven processes, the Weblogic 8.1 series will prove to be an integral tool for mission critical business integration, as it facilitates the development of application infrastructure and provides greater responsiveness to line-of-business needs," said Diyaa Zebian, Regional Manager, Middle East and Egypt, eSolutions BEA.

BEA's new products are based on an advanced software architecture developed by BEA, all based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), extensible mark-up language (XML) and emerging Web service standards. This architecture offers faster time to value by converging application development and application integration into a unified, simplified and extensible application infrastructure platform.

BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, is the first truly integrated application platform in the industry, providing a unified, simplified, and extensible application infrastructure that allows customers to realize significantly faster time-to-value on their mission critical business integration projects.

BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 heralds a new era of business integration by changing the traditional approach to application integration and business process management. WebLogic Integration provides customers with a unified framework for business integration, simplified production and management, as well as a new architecture for the rapid assembly and integration of applications, business processes and partner trading networks. BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 provides a seamless production environment for integration specialists and application developers alike by leveraging the WebLogic Workshop development environment and a catalogue of standards-based application integration adapters.

BEA WebLogic Workshop is a leading edge integrated development framework that empowers all application developers to rapidly create, test, and deploy enterprise-class web service applications on the BEA WebLogic Platform. The WebLogic Workshop provides a unified development platform that enables developers to easily build and connect components, data, and application business logic, while insulating them from the complexities of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE).

BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 lends support to application developers by offering a new portal design and development environment, based on BEA WebLogic Workshop, thus simplifying and hastening the production and management of custom-fit portals. For the first time, application and enterprise developers can work together on the same platform in the same language, dramatically increasing productivity across IT organizations.