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BEA Systems, Inc. was a company that specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products which was wholly acquired by
Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization. The company sells da ...
on April 29, 2008.


History

BEA began as a
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company, founded in 1995 and headquartered in
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. It grew to have 78 offices worldwide at the time of its acquisition by Oracle. The company's name is an
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of the first names of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott, and
Alfred Chuang Alfred S. Chuang () is an American business technology executive and venture capitalist. He is the former CEO of BEA Systems. In 2020, he founded Race Capital, a venture fund. Early life and education A native of Hong Kong, Chuang graduated fr ...
. All were former employees of
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, and launched the business in 1995 by acquiring Information Management and Independence Technologies. These firms were the largest resellers of ''
Tuxedo Black tie is a semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and American conventions for attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdochically by its principal element ...
'', a distributed transaction management system sold by
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. BEA soon acquired the Tuxedo product itself, and went on to acquire other middleware companies and products. In 1998, BEA acquired the
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start-up
WebLogic Oracle WebLogic Server is a Java EE application server currently developed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle acquired WebLogic Server when it purchased BEA Systems in 2008. Application Server versions * WebLogic Server 14c (14.1.1) - March 30, 2020 ...
, which had built the first standards-based Java application server. WebLogic's application server became the impetus for the Sun Microsystems'
J2EE Jakarta EE, formerly Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), is a set of specifications, extending Java SE with specifications for enterprise features such as distributed computing and web serv ...
specification and formed the basis of BEA's WebLogic application server sold today. They were a sponsor for Team Rahal (now
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) from 2002 to 2008, which included Buddy Rice's 2004 Indianapolis 500 win and Vitor Meira's 2005 Indianapolis 500 runner-up finish. In 2005, BEA launched a new brand identity with the slogan "Think Liquid". This was considered cutting Edge marketing. BEA also announced a new product line called AquaLogic, which is an infrastructure software family for
service-oriented architecture In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. By consequence, it is also applied in the field of software design where services are provide ...
(SOA). The same year, it made its entrance into
telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...
infrastructure through the acquisition of
Incomit Incomit (Incomit AB) is a Swedish telecommunications software company founded in 2000 by Semir Mahjoub, Thomas Gronberg and Anders Lunquist. The company provided software that integrated telecommunications network technology with Internet-based a ...
, a Swedish telecommunications software provider.BEA buys Incomit to beef up telecom software
/ref> In late 2005, the company announced the acquisitions of Compoze Software, a provider of collaboration software, M7, an
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-based tools company, and SolarMetric, editors of the ''Kodo'' persistence engine. The acquisitions continued in 2006 with
Plumtree Software Plumtree Software is a former software company founded in 1996 by product managers and engineers from Oracle and Informix with funding from Sequoia Capital. The company was a pioneer of extending the portal concept popularized by Yahoo! from ...
, an enterprise portal company; Fuego, a
business process management Business process management (BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business pro ...
(BPM) software company; and Flashline, a
metadata Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...
repository company. These acquisitions have since become parts of the AquaLogic SOA product stack. On October 12, 2007,
Oracle An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination. Description The word '' ...
announced their intent to buy BEA Systems for $6.7 billion. As a result of the offer, BEA's stock price rose over five dollars upon the opening of trading for the day. BEA turned the offer down the same day, saying that the company is "worth substantially more". On January 16, 2008, Oracle signed a definite agreement to buy BEA for $8.5 billion. It is believed that
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, one of the company's most prominent shareholders, was the main reason that the deal happened. On April 29, 2008, Oracle completed its acquisition of BEA.Corporate Information: Management and Board of Directors


Products

BEA had three major product lines: # Tuxedo, now Oracle Tuxedo - transaction-oriented middleware platform # BEA WebLogic, now
Oracle WebLogic Server Oracle WebLogic Server is a Java EE application server currently developed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle acquired WebLogic Server when it purchased BEA Systems in 2008. Application Server versions * WebLogic Server 14c (14.1.1) - March 30, 20 ...
- Java EE enterprise infrastructure platform # AquaLogic, now
Oracle Service Bus Oracle Service Bus (abbreviated OSB) is an enterprise service bus used by Oracle Corporation. Formerly named AquaLogic Service Bus, Oracle acquired this technology when it bought BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. was a company that specialized ...
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform BEA started out with the Tuxedo software product, but the products they are best known for in the computer industry are the WebLogic product family, which consists of WebLogic Server, WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Integration and
JRockit JRockit was a proprietary Java virtual machine (JVM) originally developed by Appeal Virtual Machines, acquired by BEA Systems in 2002, and became part of Oracle Fusion Middleware as part of acquisition of BEA Systems in 2008. The JRockit code ba ...
. 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, technologies obtained through the acquisition of Swedish telecommunications software company Incomit.Bloomberg Businessweek
BEA Systems Sweden Telecom AB
/ref> BEA also has a product offering for the
RFID Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder, a radio receiver and transmitter. When triggered by an electromag ...
market called the BEA WebLogic RFID Product Family.


AquaLogic

BEA Systems produced the AquaLogic software suite for managing service-oriented architecture (SOA). It includes following products: * BEA AquaLogic BPM suite, a set of
business process management Business process management (BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business pro ...
(BPM) tools. It combines workflow and process technology with enterprise application integration functionality. The suite consists of tools aimed for line of business personnel for creating business process models (AquaLogic BPM Designer), as well as tools for IT personnel to create actual business process applications directly from said models (AquaLogic BPM Studio). The completed business process applications are deployed on a production server (AquaLogic BPM Enterprise Server), from which they integrate to backend applications and generate portal views for human interactions in the process. It also comes with a customizable tools for live
business activity monitoring Business activity monitoring (BAM) is software that aids the monitoring of business activities which are implemented in computer systems. The term was originally coined by analysts at Gartner, Inc. and refers to the aggregation, analysis, and pr ...
(BAM). * BEA AquaLogic User Interaction, a set of tools used to create portals, collaborative communities composite applications and other applications that use service architecture. These technologies work cross-platform. This technology came to BEA Systems from its acquisition of Plumtree Software. * BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository, a vital element of effective Service-oriented architecture life cycle governance, manages the metadata for any type of software asset, from
business process A business process, business method or business function is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks by people or equipment in which a specific sequence produces a service or product (serves a particular business goal) for a parti ...
es and web services to patterns, frameworks, applications, and components. It maps the relationships and interdependencies that connect these assets to improve impact analysis, promote and systematize
code reuse In software development (and computer programming in general), code reuse, also called software reuse, is the use of existing software, or software knowledge, to build new software, following the reusability principles. Code reuse may be achie ...
, and measure the impact on the bottom line. * BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, an
enterprise service bus An enterprise service bus (ESB) implements a communication system between mutually interacting software applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It represents a software architecture for distributed computing, and is a special varia ...
(ESB) with operational service-management that allows the interaction between services, routing relationships, transformations, and policies. * BEA AquaLogic Service Registry, a
UDDI Web Services Discovery provides access to software systems over the Internet using standard protocols. In the most basic scenario there is a ''Web Service Provider'' that publishes a service and a ''Web Service Consumer'' that uses this service. ...
v3 registry with an embedded governance framework. It provides a repository where services can be registered and reused for developing or modifying applications. * BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform (previously known as Liquid Data), providing tools for creating and managing different data services. It uses the
XQuery XQuery (XML Query) is a query and functional programming language that queries and transforms collections of structured and unstructured data, usually in the form of XML, text and with vendor-specific extensions for other data formats (JSON, bin ...
language for data composition and transformation for a variety of data sources, including
relational database A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relatio ...
s and web services. * BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security, a security infrastructure application for distributed authentication, fine-grained entitlements and other security services. Features include allowing users to define access rules for applications without modifying the software itself, including JSP pages, EJBs and portlets. * BEA AquaLogic Commerce Services (often shortened as ALCS), an e-Commerce solution based on
Elastic Path Elastic Path is a headless commerce system, allowing template-less eCommerce to be integrated as middleware into Enterprise ERP systems. The system is API based and is specifically targeted towards Enterprise level Organisations. Elastic Path ...
e-Commerce solution integrated with WebLogic application server. Discontinued on version 6.0 in year 2009 (after BEA acquisition by Oracle).


See also

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List of acquisitions by Oracle This is a listing of Oracle Corporation's corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products. Oracle's version does not include value of the acquisition. See also :Sun Microsystems acquisitions (Sun was acq ...


References


External links


BEA Systems - World Website
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