Tuesday, 17 July 2007

BEA Launches Social Computing Tools Suite

BEA Systems has launched three new products targeting the increasing Web 2.0 technologies. The suite will help businesses to tap corporate content easily....

BEA Systems has launched three new products targeting the increasing Web 2.0 technologies. The suite will help businesses to tap corporate content easily.

BEA said the new social computing suite will help provide corporate developers, IT operations personnel and end-users with tagging, advanced search, mash-up and widget technologies.

Ajay Gandhi, Director of Product Marketing, BEA, said the tools would be an answer to the growing demand from younger employees to tap Web 2.0 tools they commonly use outside of work for internal corporate collaboration and communication.

"There's a lot of demand for those business users to get the tools they have been using on the consumer Web," he said. "There is this disconnect between what is available for free on the consumer Web and what corporations are providing to employees."