SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 12 -- BEA Systems Inc., a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced the release of BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0, a comprehensive enterprise service bus (ESB) that is designed to improve the integration process for enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments. The solution is an SOA integration platform designed to connect, mediate and manage interactions between heterogeneous services, legacy applications and multiple ESB instances across an enterprise-wide service network.

"The same factors that lead a large company to acquire heterogeneous applications (differing requirements) also cause them to organize SOA initiatives into different domains -- a typical epicenter being a business unit. Initially, more than 90 percent of SOA interactions are confined within a single SOA domain. However as organizations develop a robust service portfolio the proportion of interdomain interactions increases as services are used in composite applications developed in other business units and to automate business processes that span organizational boundaries. Multiple requirements arise as service use increases. Performance must continue to meet expectations, QoS must be assured and appropriate service level-agreements, established. Also, organizations must ensure that they effectively manage a rapidly growing portfolio of diverse assets (e.g., services, policies, business processes) and publicize the availability of these assets," said Jess Thompson, research vice president at Gartner Research. "This will require organizations to effectively manage a portfolio of diverse assets (e.g., services, policies, business processes) and publicize the availability of these assets. Moreover, as the use of and dependence on services grows so do the requirements for dependable service level agreements and effective governance."

For organizations that adopted SOA to align IT initiatives with business strategies to compete in today's business environment, ESB technology acts as the essential link between business processes and services to help enterprises rapidly change with ever-evolving business needs. BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 is designed to be a comprehensive, light-weight SOA backbone to help IT organizations create configuration-driven and reusable service components, service enable legacy applications and quickly build new SOA-based applications for enabling enterprise agility.

"Whether an organization is looking to undertake its first SOA project or to augment its legacy applications, the new integration and scalability features in the latest version of BEA AquaLogic Service Bus can help unlock business value from siloed applications and give organizations a competitive edge through a more agile infrastructure," said Thanh Tran, senior vice president of AquaLogic products for BEA Systems. "As a result, organizations may increase time-to-market, lower total cost of ownership and improve ROI."

BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 enhances BEA WorkSpace 360 degrees by providing configuration-driven service integration with plug-ins to the BEA WorkSpace 360 degrees unified design environment. Businesses may benefit from faster release cycles due to ease-of-use, quicker time-to-market and increased developer productivity.

BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 is also designed to serve as the backbone for a flexible, reusable well-governed service network that allows enterprises to help build dynamic business applications.

New features and key customer benefits include:

• Enterprise-wide service network comprising multiple SOA domains -- BEA AquaLogic Service Bus mediates and provides location-independent access to services across an enterprise-wide service network spanning multiple SOA domains. BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 leverages services distributed across multiple SOA domains to build high-value composite applications.

• Enhanced embedded management and quality of service (QoS) -- BEA AquaLogic Service Bus offers optimized runtime, optimized connectivity to other BEA AquaLogic products and embedded management capabilities to provide policy- based load balancing, throttling and service pooling. These capabilities may enhance the performance, scalability and QoS for the SOA.

• BEA SmartConnect -- BEA AquaLogic Service Bus provides optimized native transports for leading ERP and packaged applications that, together with connectivity to WebsphereMQ and WebSphere application server-based applications, can enable IT to build composite applications by leveraging the SOA-enabled, as well as non-SOA legacy assets. Unlike typical adaptors, BEA SmartConnect not only can connect and leverage non-SOA legacy assets, but it can also help manage them by propagating security and transaction credentials.

• Unified SOA and BPM -- BEA AquaLogic Service Bus delivers out-of-the-box integration with BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite which can help achieve greater alignment between IT services with business processes. BEA AquaLogic Service Bus provides an integrated unified design environment so that organizations may leverage service components to participate in composite, multi-domain business processes.

• ESB and SOA Governance -- BEA AquaLogic Services Bus, when implemented with BEA SOA Governance products, is designed to deliver end-to-end visibility and control across the entire service network. BEA AquaLogic Service Bus can provide out-of-the-box seamless integration with BEA AquaLogic Registry Repository and BEA AquaLogic SOA Management as part of the BEA SOA Governance solution. BEA AquaLogic Service Bus is designed with built-in capabilities for service virtualization, WS-Security and enforcement of policies around throttling and service pooling. These capabilities are leveraged within the BEA SOA Governance solution and may enable better control of services across the enterprise-wide service network comprising multiple SOA domains to enable consistent QoS, control and visibility.

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Source: BEA Systems Inc.