The Hindu Business Line : BEA Systems unveils `liquid computing' vision

BEA Systems, a leading application infrastructure software company, has unveiled its `liquid computing' vision, products and services aimed at improving companies' IT responsiveness from "months to minutes".

The offering was unveiled at the 9th annual BEA Developers Conference at San Francisco.

Addressing the general session of the conference, Mr Alfred S. Chuang, Founder, Chairman and CEO, said that `liquid computing' builds upon a service oriented architecture (SOA) foundation with the objective of aligning enterprise interactions with real-time business goals with a view to enabling companies to become self-driven enterprises, ultimately achieving enterprise compatibility, adaptability and breakthrough productivity.

Mr Chuang said that the new products and services - BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition - and support services, which build upon and expand the BEA WebLogic Platform, together with some technologies still being developed - codenamed Project QuickSilver and Alchemy - help deliver on BEA's liquid computing vision that is designed to help companies increase responsiveness and reduce IT complexity and costs.

The company is currently pursuing `mobile Web applications and beyond", he added.

Stating that BEA was focused on "customer-driven innovation", Mr Chuang said that there were three elements of liquid computing - enterprise compatibility, active adaptability and breakthrough productivity.

Time to value is the core issue and the goal of liquid computing is to facilitate IT responsiveness from "months to minutes".

"Deploy SOA now," he urged companies, stating that IT should be used as an enabler and not as a barrier to business value. The company's SOA on the BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 has enabled companies to achieve 20 per cent gain in overall time to market.

Already, 1,500 customer companies have implemented the BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 and are aligning IT for business management.

A key feature of SOA is the facility to blend technology and standards. "SOA is also critical to bridge the gap between the needs of businesses and IT capabilities."

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Scott Dietzen, Chief Technical Officer of BEA Systems, said that the lack of a service-based architecture was the key limiting factor for integration and reuse. "SOA ends ad hoc integration and facilitates compatibility and adaptability," he said, adding that SOA had fundamentally changed the way companies build their integration architectures.

Mr Shane Robison, Executive Vice-President and Chief Strategy & Technology Officer of Hewlett Packard, said the HP-BEA partnerships had bagged over 500 large enterprise accounts.

Thirty-four per cent of BEA Systems' sales were on HP platforms. Sales and marketing teams of both companies had been trained by each other.

Over 1,000 HP personnel have been trained on the BEA platform. Of this, 400 alone were trained on BEA's WebLogic Platform 8.1.

Stating that the HP-BEA partnership had been extended to SOA applications, Mr Robison said that SOA was "a necessary component of adaptive enterprise".

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