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BEA Pulls a 360 With Consolidated SOA Offering


By Alex Handy
October 15, 2006 — 
BEA Systems used its annual conference to announce the circling of its product lines. The mid-September event was highlighted by the announcement of SOA 360 (as in 360 degrees), the company’s new name for its integrated SOA platform. Comprising WebLogic, AquaLogic and Tuxedo, SOA 360 will offer a single management and development environment for service-oriented architectures.

Alfred Chuang, chairman and CEO of BEA, took the keynote stage of BEAWorld to discuss the potential of SOA in the enterprise. During his speech, he said that BEA now earns 20 percent of its revenue from AquaLogic sales, despite the product being just over a year old. “SOA puts business back in charge of business,” said Chuang. He went on to state that SOA allows difficult business processes to be better managed and executed upon.

The newly titled platform will materialize in 2007 with the first release of WorkSpace 360, an Eclipse-based collaborative development environment. SOA 360 will also include the existing BEA SOA products, and incorporate some new bits of code that tie everything together under this Eclipse control panel.

Bill Roth, vice president of BEA’s Workshop Group, said the WebLogic Workshop development environment will become a part of the WorkSpace 360 platform. Additional tooling will arrive in 2007, and will include a relationship layout tool, PHP development facilities and possible expanded support for REST. Roth demonstrated one of these tools, WebSpace Architect, which diagrams the XML associated with code held in the repository formerly known as Flashline.

Noel Yuhanna, senior analyst at Forrester Research, said that BEA’s SOA 360 offers a broader perspective of SOA. “I think they are taking the right steps toward…getting this into a real-world scenario.”

But Mike Wienick, consultant and analyst for European firm Pierre Audion, said that he was still waiting to see just how much of SOA 360 is marketing hype, and how much is actual innovation. “Obviously the idea’s very interesting, but to me it’s not very different than what they’ve talked about before. It makes sense for customers who are using all three, but how much is it going to cost to upgrade?” wondered Wienick. He went on to say that BEA has been saying all along its products would be integrated and cohesive.

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Also announced during BEAWorld was the release of the AquaLogic Data Services Platform 2.5. The software is designed to access and present any form of data available within an enterprise.

In addition, the company announced the formation of a partnership with Web services reseller StrikeIron. The partnership will bring new data integration services for harvesting information from Excel spreadsheets and making it available to an AquaLogic deployment through the data services platform.

BEA also used the conference to introduce its Guardian support service. This new tool offers real-time suggestions to administrators working with WebLogic or AquaLogic installations. Guardian, said Chuang, will keep users up to date with current patches and inform them when they are moving into areas that could cause problems down the line. The system can download and install updates specific to situations encountered during daily administration. No date for the delivery of Guardian was given.


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