BEA thinks liquid: Announces new AquaLogic product family for GITEX 2005

AquaLogic is expected to yield some of the most significant benefits in software development since the introduction of Java technology a decade ago.

BEA AquaLogic offers an open and independent platform for developing, deploying, managing and operating a complete Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in various computing environments, including .Net, Java or legacy systems. AquaLogic enables software services to be Composed Once and Leveraged Anywhere (COLA), helping customers to turn isolated or "frozen" IT assets into Enterprise Liquid Assets and enabling them to respond faster to the pace of modern business. The COLA approach enables IT to extract more value out of existing technological assets and achieve better alignment with key business objectives.

"GITEX Dubai 2005 is the perfect opportunity to meet leading multinational and Fortune 500 companies. Working across a unified platform for their geographically disparate branches is important to such concerns. By enabling them to leverage their IT assets throughout multiple branches in a more efficient and profitable manner, AquaLogic addresses one of the greatest challenges in business. The BEA AquaLogic product family is designed to help businesses move to a new paradigm of horizontally integrated services that quickly deliver business and IT services to improve enterprise productivity," said Diyaa Zebian, General Manager, Middle East & Egypt, eSolutions BEA.

BEA AquaLogic helps enable services built on different platforms to be discovered, secured, managed and assembled efficiently. As a result, application specialists and IT professionals can shift focus from writing code to composing business processes that extend across the enterprise and Internet to deliver new services quicker to employees, customers, partners and suppliers. For end users, it means that applications meeting their specific requirements may be created without long development cycles.

"Historically, organizations have had to choose between either compromising to get various functions to work together or disruptively ripping and replacing IT systems. "Now, BEA AquaLogic's services-management approach to integration helps eliminate the choice between compromising, or ripping and replacing," Zebian added.

AquaLogic offers multiple products across six product lines to cater to the disparate needs of businesses in the region. Its BEA Messaging Product Line includes the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus that helps speed services deployment and the BEA Service Registry that provides guidance for governance and lifecycle management. AquaLogic also offers a Data Product Line including the BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform that provides a unified view of data across the enterprise, and a Security Product Line containing BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security, a unified and adaptable security infrastructure.

BEA plans to offer additional products for the existing lines and also fill out the AquaLogic product family with three additional product lines that may include AquaLogic Process for the management of disparate services, AquaLogic Portal to increase information worker productivity, and AquaLogic Composer, which will provide a single unified tool environment for application specialists and service administrators.