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"Think liquid"
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1995
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San Jose, California , USA
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Alfred Chuang , Founder, Chairman & CEO<br /> Mark Dentinger , EVP & CFO<br /> Tom Ashburn , President, Worldwide Field Organization<br /> Rosanne Saccone , SVP & CMO<br /> Bill Klein , EVP, Business Planning and Development<br /> Wai Wong , EVP, Products<br /> Bruce Pasternack , Board of Directors<br /> Rob Levy , CTO<br /> Jeanne Wu , SVP, Human Resources
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4,275 BEA Corporate Information At-a-Glance
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$14 billion USD ( 2006 )
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$1427 million USD ( 2005 )
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Tuxedo , WebLogic , AquaLogic
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wwwbeacom
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() is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. Founded in 1995, BEA has specialized in the enterprise infrastructure software market throughout its 12 year
History , and currently has 78 offices in 37 countries. BEA is headquartered in San Jose, California.
The company's name is an acronym based on the first names of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman,
Ed Scott and
Alfred Chuang . Alfred Chuang is still with the company, acting as the chairman and CEO.
The company's name comes from the first initial of each of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman,
Ed Scott and
Alfred Chuang , all former employees of
Sun Microsystems . They launched the business in 1995 by acquiring Information Management and Independence Technologies. These firms were the largest resellers of ''
Tuxedo '', a distributed transaction management system sold by
Novell . They soon acquired the Tuxedo product itself. BEA went on to acquire other
Middleware companies and products, including
ObjectBroker and
NCR 's Top End product.
In 1998, BEA acquired the
San Francisco start-up
WebLogic , which was among the first to implement Sun Microsystems'
J2EE specification. WebLogic's re-branded server formed the basis of BEA's WebLogic application server sold today.
In 2005,
Lexdon Business Library reported BEA's announcement of a new brand identity and their new slogan "Think Liquid." BEA also announced a new product line called
AquaLogic , which is an infrastructure software family for
Service Oriented Architecture .
On November 3, 2005 BEA Systems announced the acquisition of SolarMetric, editors of the Kodo
Persistence engine. The acquisitions continued in 2006 with
Plumtree Software , an enterprise portal company, Fuego, a
Business Process Management (BPM) software company, and Flashline, a
Metadata repository company. These acquisitions have since become parts of the
AquaLogic SOA product stack.
On the
22 February 2007 BEA Systems closed out its fiscal year with $1.4bn in revenues, 17% higher than the previous year. And it came out of the year with $1.2bn in cash, retiring over $250m in convertible debt.
BEA has three major product lines,
# The
Tuxedo Transaction Oriented Middleware platform
# The
WebLogic J2EE Enterprise Infrastructure platform and
# The AquaLogic Service Oriented Architecture (
SOA ) platform.
BEA started out with the market called the
BEA WebLogic RFID Product Family .
is a software suite from
BEA Systems for managing
Service-oriented Architecture (SOA). It includes following products:
- ''BEA AquaLogic BPM suite'' is a set of Business Process Management (BPM) tools. It combines workflow and process technology with enterprise application integration functionality. The suite consists of tools aimed for line of business personnel for creating business process models (AquaLogic BPM Designer), as well as tools for IT personnel to create actual business process applications directly from said models (AquaLogic BPM Studio). The completed business process applications are deployed on a production sever (AquaLogic BPM Enterprise Server), from which they integrate to backend applications and generate portal views for human interactions in the process. It also comes with a customizable tools for live Business Activity Monitoring (BAM).
- ''BEA AquaLogic User Interaction'' is a set of tools used to create portals, collaborative communities composite applications and other applications that use service architecture. These technologies work cross-platform.
- ''BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository'', a vital element of effective Service-oriented Architecture life cycle governance, manages the Metadata for any type of software asset, from Business Processes and Web Services to patterns, frameworks, applications, and components. It maps the relationships and interdependencies that connect these assets to improve impact analysis, promote and systematize Software Reuse , and measure the impact on the bottom line.
- ''BEA AquaLogic Service Bus'' is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with operational service-management that allows the interaction between services, routing relationships, transformations, and policies.
- ''BEA AquaLogic Service Registry'' is a UDDI v3 registry with an embedded governance framework. It provides a repository where services can be registered and reused for developing or modifying applications.
- ''BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform'' (previously known as Liquid Data) provides tools for creating and managing different data services. It uses the XQuery language for data composition and transformation for a variety of data sources, including Relational Database s and Web Service s.
- ''BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security'' is a security infrastructure application for distributed authentication, fine-grained entitlements and other security services. Features include allowing users to define access rules for applications without modifying the software itself, including JSP pages, EJBs and portlets.
