Jennifer Childress
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Press Release
Jacada Supports BEA Service Infrastructure Product Strategy
Service Infrastructure Designed to Help Move Customers' Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) Efforts from Pilot to Production
ATLANTA, June 9, 2005 – Jacada Ltd. (Nasdaq: JCDA), a leader in software solutions that are designed to accelerate business improvement, today announced its support for a new Service Infrastructure product strategy introduced by BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS). Developed to help increase business agility while reducing IT cost and complexity, the Service Infrastructure products from BEA are designed to help companies manage the service-oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle and swiftly assemble composite applications and processes in heterogeneous environments. BEA Service Infrastructure product family is designed to help companies make the transition from pilot to full enterprise-wide production of their SOA.
SOA is a software design approach designed to take the discrete business functions contained in enterprise applications and organize them into interoperable, standards-based services. These services can be combined and reused in composite applications and processes to meet business needs. Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software designed to help enable the successful deployment of SOA in business environments by allowing services to be discovered, secured, managed and assembled into composite applications and processes – regardless of the underlying technology.
"The ability to unify disparate business processes and applications across a common platform has become a priority for many businesses today. Jacada and BEA share large, enterprise customers, whose key objectives surround the deployment of SOA-based environments to help improve business agility and efficiency," said Russ Duffey, vice president of business development at Jacada. "Jacada Fusion can help organizations leverage their existing applications using a composite application SOA approach. Jacada Fusion is designed to work with BEA's Service Infrastructure product strategy to help customers unify multiple disparate applications, improve data efficiency, streamline business processes, and reduce maintenance costs."
Jacada Fusion can help companies achieve the agility benefits of composite applications by providing a non-invasive abstraction layer on today's heterogeneous applications, including Windows, Web and traditional host-based enterprise applications. By bringing diverse application interfaces together into web services that users can incorporate into composite applications, Jacada can help companies reduce the cost and complexity of delivering new application functionality and improving business processes. Services developed through Jacada Fusion are generic, open standard Web services that are designed to be easily managed within the BEA Service Infrastructure product strategy.
"Our customers are looking for a simple, fast, and standards-based approach to deploying a successful SOA," said Gail Ennis, vice president of Worldwide Alliances. "By simplifying the integration, deployment and management of composite applications and services, Jacada and BEA can help save our customers significant development time and help them get from pilot stage to production with their SOA implementations."
Service Infrastructure Helps Move SOA from Pilot to Production
Customers have gravitated to SOA's modularity and flexibility, which is designed to help them to mix and match IT resources in a "virtual" infrastructure that is integrated while not being locked into a single vendor's IT stack. SOA also reflects a move from thinking about IT in an "application" context to thinking about IT as a "services" delivery business – helping to enable IT departments to create, assemble and deliver new services more quickly for use by employees, customers, partners and suppliers. As a new approach to enterprise IT implementation and application development, SOA can help to break down business applications and features into "services" – specific pieces of functionality – which can be efficiently built, combined, adapted and reused.
Most customers to date are using their application infrastructure software (application servers, integration servers, development tools and portal software) to build and deploy their early SOA projects. As SOA moves from pilot to production, companies have found that they need new infrastructure that is designed to help them to quickly compose, deliver, configure and manage these services. Customers typically encounter this once they have built and deployed more than 50 services, which can result in a "services sprawl" that requires constant integration and can be difficult to scale. They also need new composition tools that work like an "assembly line" for building cars, in addition to traditional coding tools they used for "building car parts." Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software designed to help enable businesses compose, configure and reuse technology assets to meet business needs in a more assembly line model.
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