BEA Systems achieves leader status in META Group's enterprise portal frameworks evaluation

META Group is a leading provider of information technology (IT) research, advisory services, and strategic consulting.

The new METAspectrum evaluation undertook an objective assessment of portal products that can provide a set of infrastructure services needed to produce personalised, contextual Web sites intended for use across an entire company, including all types and levels of employees, as well as partners, suppliers, and customers.

"The high rating that we have achieved in the METAspectrum is a serious endorsement of the unique capabilities of our enterprise infrastructure software solutions," said Diyaa Zebian, General Manager, Middle East & Egypt, eSolutions BEA. "Our solutions are designed to eliminate complexity from IT environments and rationalise existing software infrastructure. BEA WebLogic Portal™ is an excellent example of this capability, as many of our customers in the Middle East have discovered."

BEA was positioned in the leader segment of the Enterprise Portal Framework METAspectrum analysis and was singled out for its agility in responding to market needs, its channel and partner program, as well as its excellent development and security features.

BEA WebLogic Portal is designed to leverage a unified architecture with BEA WebLogic Platform™ in order to help ease portal development, integration, customisation and deployment.

BEA can aid customers in focusing on the use of IT to increase collaboration and the management of business processes by providing a platform designed for building enterprise portals that help aggregate, organise, and present information from multiple back-end systems.

"We developed METAspectrum to enable IT professionals to evaluate vendors quickly, 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," he said.