BEA Systems, Inc.
Type	Public (NASDAQ: BEAS)
Founded	1995
Headquarters	San Jose, California, USA
Key people	Alfred Chuang, Founder, Chairman & CEO Mark Dentinger, EVP & CFO Tom Ashburn, President, Worldwide Field Organization Rosanne Saccone, SVP & CMO Bill Klein, EVP, Business Planning and Development Wai Wong, EVP, Products Bruce Pasternack, Board of Directors Rob Levy, CTO Jeanne Wu, SVP, Human Resources
Products	Tuxedo, WebLogic, AquaLogic
Revenue	$1.4 billion USD (2006)
Net income	$142.7 million USD (2005)
Employees	4,275[1]
Slogan	"Think liquid."
Website	www.bea.com

BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. Founded in 1995, BEA has specialized in the enterprise infrastructure software market throughout its 12 year history, and currently has 78 offices in 37 countries. BEA is hedquartered in San Jose, California. Image File history File links Bea_logo. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... Nickname: Capital of Silicon Valley Location of San Jose within Santa Clara County, California. ... Alfred Chuang is the founder and CEO of BEA Systems. ... Bruce Pasternack is the President and CEO of the Special Olympics International, and recently retired after over 20 years as a Senior Vice President of Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc. ... Tuxedo (Transactions for Unix, Extended for Distributed Operations) is a middleware platform used to manage distributed transaction processing in distributed computing environments. ... This article needs cleanup. ... AquaLogic is a software product family from BEA Systems that facilitates service-oriented architecture. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... A fiscal year (or financial year or accounting reference date) is a 12-month period used for calculating annual (yearly) financial reports in businesses and other organizations. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... A fiscal year (or financial year or accounting reference date) is a 12-month period used for calculating annual (yearly) financial reports in businesses and other organizations. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... BEA Systems, Inc. ...

The company's name is an acronym based on the first names of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang. Alfred Chuang is still with the company, acting as the chairman and CEO. Edward W. Scott is an American businessman and philanthropist. ... Alfred Chuang is the founder and CEO of BEA Systems. ...

BEA has three major product lines,

1. The Tuxedo Transaction Oriented Middleware platform
2. The WebLogic J2EE Enterprise Infrastructure platform and
3. The AquaLogic Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform.

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History

The company's name comes from the first initial of each of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang, all former employees of Sun Microsystems. They launched the business in 1995 by acquiring Information Management and Independence Technologies. These firms were the largest resellers of Tuxedo, a distributed transaction management system sold by Novell. They soon acquired the Tuxedo product itself. BEA went on to acquire other middleware companies and products, including ObjectBroker and NCR's Top End product. Edward W. Scott is an American businessman and philanthropist. ... Alfred Chuang is the founder and CEO of BEA Systems. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... Tuxedo (Transactions for Unix, Extended for Distributed Operations) is a middleware platform used to manage distributed transaction processing in distributed computing environments. ... Novell, Inc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... ObjectBroker <programming> A distributed object system from DEC based on the CORBA standard. ... NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a technology company specializing in solutions for the retail and financial industries. ...

In 1998, BEA acquired the San Francisco start-up WebLogic, which was among the first to implement Sun Microsystems' J2EE specification. WebLogic's re-branded server formed the basis of BEA's WebLogic application server sold today. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition or J2EE is a Standard (albeit with no ISO or ECMA standard) for developing distributed Multi-tier architecture applications, based on modular components running on an application server. ...

In 2005, Lexdon Business Library reported BEA's announcement of a new brand identity and their new slogan "Think Liquid." BEA also announced a new product line called AquaLogic, which is an infrastructure software family for Service Oriented Architecture. AquaLogic is a software product family from BEA Systems that facilitates service-oriented architecture. ... In computing, the term Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) expresses a software architectural concept that defines the use of services to support the requirements of software users. ...

On November 3, 2005 BEA Systems announced the acquisition of SolarMetric, editors of the Kodo persistence engine. The acquisitions continued in 2006 with Plumtree, an enterprise portal company, Fuego, a business process management (BPM) software company, and Flashline, a metadata repository company. These aquisitions have since become parts of the AquaLogic SOA product stack. Persistence is the term used in computer science to describe a capability used by a computer programmer to store data structures in non-volatile storage such as a file system or a relational database. ... The term Business Process Management (or BPM) refers to activities performed by businesses to improve their processes. ... Metadata (Greek meta after and Latin data information) are data that describe other data. ... AquaLogic is a software product family from BEA Systems that facilitates service-oriented architecture. ...

Financial Results

On the 22 February 2007 BEA Systems closed out its fiscal year with $1.4bn in revenues, 17% higher than the previous year. And it came out of the year with $1.2m in cash, retiring over $250m in convertible debt. February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

Products

BEA started out with the Tuxedo software product, but currently the products they are best known for in the computer industry are the BEA WebLogic product family, which consists of WebLogic Server, WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Integration and JRockit. In 2005, BEA launched a new product family called AquaLogic for service-oriented architecture deployment. They have also entered the telecommunications field with their WebLogic Communications Platform, which includes WebLogic SIP Server and WebLogic Network Gatekeeper. BEA also has a product offering for the RFID market called the BEA WebLogic RFID Product Family. Tuxedo (Transactions for Unix, Extended for Distributed Operations) is a middleware platform used to manage distributed transaction processing in distributed computing environments. ... BEA WebLogic is a J2EE application server and also an HTTP web server by BEA Systems of San Jose, California, for Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and other platforms. ... JRockit is a high-performance, manageable and configurable Virtual Machine for Java from BEA Systems. ... AquaLogic is a software product family from BEA Systems that facilitates service-oriented architecture. ... There is no widely-agreed upon definition of service-oriented architecture other than its literal translation that it is an architecture that relies on service-orientation as its fundamental design principle. ... An EPC RFID tag used for Wal-Mart Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. ...

On April 2nd, 2007, software evaluation company CMS Watch reported BEA's release of WebLogic Portal 10. BEA also released WebLogic Server 10 and Workshop for WebLogic 10 on the same date according to their press releases.

External links

• BEA Systems - World Website
• BEA Systems - European Website
• BEA Systems - French Website
• Logical progression, insight into BEA Systems at CBRonline.com (2001)

References

1. ^ BEA Corporate Information At-a-Glance

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