New
Customers Can Enjoy Benefits of BEA's Industry-Leading BPM and
Collaboration Technologies in a Single Integrated SOA Solution
BEA Systems, a world
leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced continued
growth in adoption of its BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite (ALBPM) with several
new customers selecting this innovative solution that is designed to
help support complex, collaborative business processes in heterogeneous
enterprises. As more companies focus on redesigning and improving their
processes, they are using ALBPM to tap directly into SOA. By linking
BPM with SOA, system complexity can be separated from business
processes, helping create a more flexible infrastructure that is
designed to increase both business and IT agility. Recent customers
implementing AquaLogic BPM Suite include Federal Home Loan Bank of
Atlanta, Mercury General Corporation and Novartis Pharmaceuticals.
"In every modern organization, there is a constant interplay of people, processes and systems. In this dynamic environment, managers must continually update their tactics in order to better compete in the marketplace. Whether the goal is to increase sales or reduce costs, an organization benefits from better understanding and optimization of their business processes," said Mark Carges, executive vice president at BEA Systems.
AquaLogic BPM Suite is a business process management solution is designed to integrate the modeling, implementation, execution and monitoring of end-to- end business processes, helping support the continuous optimization of the entire business process lifecycle. For more information, please visit bea.com/bpm.
Additionally, companies want to address the more dynamic process challenges that require deeper context and collaborative work and are using BEA AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition to bring together portal, collaboration and BPM technologies into a single integrated SOA solution. This new product, announced in December 2006, is designed to coordinate human- focused activities and collaboration between users and systems integration, all within a process, which can help companies lower operating and IT costs, improve user effectiveness and increase organizational agility.
BPM And The Sales Process: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
For nearly 140 years, The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) has been supplying innovative solutions to meet the world's growing energy needs. The company has power generation systems and equipment found in more than 800 utilities and industries in more than 90 countries.
"B&W began working with BEA over three years ago when we were looking for a service-oriented solution that would reduce costs and improve communication between our employees, customers and suppliers," said Penny Sherrod, director of enterprise systems at The Babcock & Wilcox Company. "We successfully deployed MyB&W, an enterprise portal, on the BEA AquaLogic User Interaction that helped us meet these goals by providing a platform that aggregated tools and information from numerous disparate systems. This initial success greatly influenced our decision to deploy AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition."
With MyB&W successfully deployed to over 3,000 employees, B&W recognized an opportunity to integrate the AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition with its existing portal to support its highly complex and "engineered to order"
sales process and plans to create a sales tool designed to help enhance sales performance, improve sales productivity and increase profitable bookings. The effectiveness of the new application will be judged by its positive effect on margin, volume, customer satisfaction, sales plan submissions and new contract wins.
"For years, salespeople at B&W created their own ad hoc processes for dealing with leads and opportunities," said Jim Malone, vice president of sales and marketing of The Babock & Wilcox Company. "But by analyzing these processes and identifying opportunities for improved efficiencies, B&W is implementing a best-practice, systematic way to track and manage new leads."
AquaLogic BPM Collaboration Edition brings the powerful resources of three industry-leading BEA products together on one platform for the quickest possible deployment: AquaLogic BPM Suite, AquaLogic Interaction and AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration. For more information, please visit bea.com/bpmce.
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Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding the plans, goals, completion, implementation, benefits, and details of the relationship between BEA and B&W ("Customer"); the development efforts, product delivery and other goals related to this relationship; and BEA's and Customer's plans to create a new sales tool designed to help enhance sales performance, improve sales productivity and increase profitable bookings and provide positive effects on margin, volume, customer satisfaction, sales plan submissions and new contract wins. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the development and optimization BEA's or Customer's products; the timing of additional investments of resources by BEA and Customer related to any joint initiatives; and any software errors related to BEA's or Customer's products or the integration thereof. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2006 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed thereafter by BEA from time-to-time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.
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