Business is at the beginning of an architectural change: a move to distributed, object-oriented computing in pursuit of the truly integrated global enterprise. Our customers are building sophisticated back-office systems to provide more data and services to their customers, their partners, and their employees. This requires new applications and a new infrastructure.

BEA is providing the new application infrastructure to enable this architectural shift. Unified, simplified, and extensible, BEA’s application infrastructure helps enable organizations to build, integrate, extend, and manage their enterprise applications, all from a single platform. Beyond the core application server, our new BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform provides a new development framework for programmer analysts, a full application framework integrated with BEA WebLogic Portal, personalization, application integration, business process management, security, application management, and much more, all based on the market-leading BEA WebLogic Server.

As such, the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform is comprised of a core set of Java-based products designed from the ground up to run on the Web and be highly integrated with each other. This tightness of integration can be seen by how different components can be centrally managed through the WebLogic administrative console and how skills in one product carry over to the other products.