The new BEA service solutions planned include: -- The Collective Intelligence Quickstart: Guides customers in deploying social search innovations such as tagging and dynamic usage ranking to help users discover, organize and share information and expertise through the power of social networks. This offering is designed to complement new user-centric search and tagging tools, provided by BEA AquaLogic Pathways, to empower users to more readily find information and people across their business. -- The Perimeter Security Quickstart: Helps enable customers to leverage the power of BEA AquaLogic Ensemble to secure Web resources across the enterprise. BEA AquaLogic Ensemble is designed to provide perimeter security services to the universe of unmanaged Web applications, helping customers achieve SSO-like functionality, as well as usage tracking, audit logging and mashup capabilities for existing applications and new composite applications. -- BEA Social Computing Quickstart: Helps enable customers to rapidly deploy BEA AquaLogic Pages and BEA AquaLogic® Pathways to deliver a flexible, user-driven framework for collaboration and information sharing. This offering is targeted at existing BEA AquaLogic User Interaction and BEA WebLogic Portal® customers who want to provide content and expert tagging, blogs, wikis and social networking tools as part of their portal deployments.

Released in July 2007, BEA's enterprise social computing suite, comprised of BEA AquaLogic Pages, BEA AquaLogic Ensemble and BEA AquaLogic Pathways, have received industry and customer recognition for delivering innovative Web 2.0 and social computing capabilities to the enterprise to drive greater end-user participation in the workplace while maintaining strong governance and control for IT.

David Gootzit, Research Director at Gartner remarked, ''There is broad interest in using Web 2.0 and social computing concepts, such as leveraging Ajax or alternative rich Internet application technologies to provide richer user experiences. Enterprises are adopting capabilities, inspired by the consumer Internet, that improve productivity. These include enabling end user mashup generation, communal tagging and social networking.''

Jay Simons, Vice President of Marketing at BEA Systems added, ''People have focused on user-oriented tools such as wikis, blogs, tagging, and simple mashup platforms -- but not on the tough questions about architecting participant-driven applications and the implications to existing IT infrastructure around governance, data management and development lifecycles. At BEA we are providing businesses the tools they can use for social computing, but in a way that is designed to provide enterprise-grade management and governance. The combination of Web 2.0 and SOA in the enterprise can help IT to keep up with the dynamic needs of the business by supporting the creation of cost-effective applications within a framework owned by IT. By using enterprise social computing tools integrated with an SOA, knowledge workers can tap into many of the service-enabled enterprise data sources and processes for their information-intensive work requirements.''

BEA's enterprise social computing products are designed to deliver the next wave of knowledge worker productivity -- vital for increased business efficiency, growth and innovation. The three products are:

-- BEA AquaLogic Ensemble: infrastructure software designed for developers and IT operations to create and manage enterprise mashup applications, regardless of development platform and hosting environment; -- BEA AquaLogic Pages: a Web-based system that can help empower end- user participants to create simple web applications and surface enterprise data to the web to support day-to-day business situations, dramatically improving knowledge worker productivity;
-- BEA AquaLogic Pathways: a collaborative information discovery and expert identification tool that combines social bookmarking and tagging with search and activity analytics. BEA AquaLogic Pathways can help users discover and share information and expertise through the power of social networks.

BEAWorld is an event for SOA thought leadership and is scheduled to take place in three strategic world markets spanning the Americas, Europe and Asia. The conference is designed to provide critical insights, hands-on instruction, best-practice strategies and opportunities for interaction with like-minded professionals, industry leaders, visionaries and expert practitioners.

In addition to highlighting the innovation and tangible business results BEA customers have achieved, BEAWorld is the place to find the latest information on BEA infrastructure technologies including BEA Tuxedo, BEA WebLogic and BEA AquaLogic. This year's event will also include a Solutions Showcase, exhibiting the latest and most innovative developments from the extensive BEA partner community.

To learn more, please visit: www.bea.com/enterprise.