BEA has announced the introduction of BEA SOA 360º, a unified Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform designed for business transformation and optimization, in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams.
BEA SOA 360º spans the three BEA product families and is built on the company's native SOA microServices Architecture (mSA), and supported by the newly unveiled SOA collaborative tooling environment, BEA WorkSpace 360º.
"Over the last few years, we’ve carefully considered the requirements of a truly open, embeddable and extensible software architecture,” said Rob Levy, chief technology officer and executive vice president, BEA Systems, Inc. “We concluded that SOA is not only the modern architectural approach to the enterprise, it is the natural architectural approach for infrastructure software. Think of it as a harvesting and "infusion" of re-usable components and frameworks over a natural release cycle. Our goal is to have 100 percent of our products leverage the BEA mSA by the end of 2008. The BEA mSA is intended to further improve the superiority of the BEA SOA 360º platform in terms of performance, time to market and even dimensions of vertical and horizontal scale."
BEA microService Architecture
BEA today also unveiled a preview of the microService Architecture (mSA) of its BEA SOA 360º platform. Unlike other “fused,” monolithic, proprietary middleware architectures, the BEA SOA 360º platform will be lightweight and based on native Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) standards making it more open, interoperable, embeddable and naturally extensible for third party development. The BEA mSA development is based on the principles and philosophy of SOA and the concept of a Service Network – separation of concerns, modularity and lightweight, as opposed to point-to-point, integration. It is also event-driven, using notification services to publish and discover appropriate modular components or microServices. Since BEA mSA is designed to be modular by definition, it also will be naturally “blendable” and will leverage open source assets including containers and presentation services. The application of SOA principles, such as separation of concerns and substitutability, helps to enable the BEA’s microService architecture to evolve with the needs of the enterprise.
Workspace 360º Product Family
BEA today also gave a preview of its supporting WorkSpace 360º product family. Slated to enter the market throughout 2007, WorkSpace 360º is intended to fundamentally change the way that both business and IT professionals collaborate and work individually across the extended enterprise. BEA believes that this product family will deliver the first truly shared workspaces that empower the most important Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) leadership roles across the enterprise – the business analyst, enterprise architect, service/application developer and the IT operations professional. The BEA WorkSpace 360º product family seeks to bring a free-form collaborative environment into every aspect and every role in the SOA leadership team.
BEA SOA for Executives Services
The SOA for Executives is the first BEA suite of SOA consulting and education services for senior IT executives. This suite is designed to help empower executives to invest in SOA and lead change within their organizations by conveying the business value of SOA through BEA’s sensible approach. The new SOA for Executives suite of services is the only set of professional services that are built for executives from the ground up and based on BEA’s experience with SOA at Global 2400 companies. According to a recent IDG Research Services survey of 500 IT and business professionals, the top inhibitors to SOA deployment are a lack of skill or training, building a new governance model, internal IT and organization barriers, and defining metrics to measure SOA.
BEA Guardian Support Service
BEA Guardian Support Service is the industry’s first and only patent-pending predictive and pre-emptive software support. Guardian represents a radical departure from the traditional break-fix support model employed by the enterprise software industry and can potentially reduce the burden of reactive and proactive support services. BEA plans to first include Guardian as part of its standard support level for WebLogic and select AquaLogic products. Guardian is an integrated and automated maintenance tool that helps streamline deployments and day-to-day operations. It scans, analyzes and diagnoses domains 24 by seven for potential problems, and recommends and finds the right updates and maintenance packs to correct the problem. By correcting problems before they occur, customers can potentially reduce unplanned downtime, reduce IT support staff hours and minimize the impact to operations and end-users through the application of Signature PatternsTM/SM.
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