New
Customers Can Enjoy Benefits of BEA's Industry-Leading BPM and
Collaboration Technologies in a Single Integrated SOA Solution
BEA Systems, a world
leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced continued
growth in adoption of its BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite (ALBPM) with several
new customers selecting this innovative solution that is designed to
help support complex, collaborative business processes in heterogeneous
enterprises. As more companies focus on redesigning and improving their
processes, they are using ALBPM to tap directly into SOA. By linking
BPM with SOA, system complexity can be separated from business
processes, helping create a more flexible infrastructure that is
designed to increase both business and IT agility. Recent customers
implementing AquaLogic BPM Suite include Federal Home Loan Bank of
Atlanta, Mercury General Corporation and Novartis Pharmaceuticals.
"In
every modern organization, there is a constant interplay of people,
processes and systems. In this dynamic environment, managers must
continually update their tactics in order to better compete in the
marketplace. Whether the goal is to increase sales or reduce costs, an
organization benefits from better understanding and optimization of
their business processes," said Mark Carges, executive vice president
at BEA Systems.
AquaLogic BPM Suite is a business process
management solution is designed to integrate the modeling,
implementation, execution and monitoring of end-to- end business
processes, helping support the continuous optimization of the entire
business process lifecycle. For more information, please visit
bea.com/bpm.
Additionally, companies want to address the more
dynamic process challenges that require deeper context and
collaborative work and are using BEA AquaLogic BPM Collaboration
Edition to bring together portal, collaboration and BPM technologies
into a single integrated SOA solution. This new product, announced in
December 2006, is designed to coordinate human- focused activities and
collaboration between users and systems integration, all within a
process, which can help companies lower operating and IT costs, improve
user effectiveness and increase organizational agility.
BPM And The Sales Process: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
For
nearly 140 years, The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) has been
supplying innovative solutions to meet the world's growing energy
needs. The company has power generation systems and equipment found in
more than 800 utilities and industries in more than 90 countries.
"B&W
began working with BEA over three years ago when we were looking for a
service-oriented solution that would reduce costs and improve
communication between our employees, customers and suppliers," said
Penny Sherrod, director of enterprise systems at The Babcock &
Wilcox Company. "We successfully deployed MyB&W, an enterprise
portal, on the BEA AquaLogic User Interaction that helped us meet these
goals by providing a platform that aggregated tools and information
from numerous disparate systems. This initial success greatly
influenced our decision to deploy AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition."
With
MyB&W successfully deployed to over 3,000 employees, B&W
recognized an opportunity to integrate the AquaLogic BPM Collaboration
Edition with its existing portal to support its highly complex and
"engineered to order"
sales process and plans to create a sales tool
designed to help enhance sales performance, improve sales productivity
and increase profitable bookings. The effectiveness of the new
application will be judged by its positive effect on margin, volume,
customer satisfaction, sales plan submissions and new contract wins.
"For
years, salespeople at B&W created their own ad hoc processes for
dealing with leads and opportunities," said Jim Malone, vice president
of sales and marketing of The Babock & Wilcox Company. "But by
analyzing these processes and identifying opportunities for improved
efficiencies, B&W is implementing a best-practice, systematic way
to track and manage new leads."
AquaLogic BPM Collaboration
Edition brings the powerful resources of three industry-leading BEA
products together on one platform for the quickest possible deployment:
AquaLogic BPM Suite, AquaLogic Interaction and AquaLogic Interaction
Collaboration. For more information, please visit bea.com/bpmce.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Some
of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including
the statements regarding the plans, goals, completion, implementation,
benefits, and details of the relationship between BEA and B&W
("Customer"); the development efforts, product delivery and other goals
related to this relationship; and BEA's and Customer's plans to create
a new sales tool designed to help enhance sales performance, improve
sales productivity and increase profitable bookings and provide
positive effects on margin, volume, customer satisfaction, sales plan
submissions and new contract wins. Actual results could differ
materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements.
Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially
include risks associated with: any unforeseen technical difficulties
related to the development and optimization BEA's or Customer's
products; the timing of additional investments of resources by BEA and
Customer related to any joint initiatives; and any software errors
related to BEA's or Customer's products or the integration thereof.
Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's
10-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2006 as filed with the SEC and
subsequent reports filed thereafter by BEA from time-to-time with the
SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made
as of the date hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update
such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ
materially from those projected in such statements.
About BEA
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Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise
infrastructure software. BEA's SOA 360o platform is the industry's
most unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization,
in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams.
Information about how BEA is enabling customers to achieve Business
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