Companies are increasingly turning to radio frequency identification (RFID) to better manage their supply chain from the network edge back to the data center: in December 2005, Gartner predicted that the RFID market will grow from $504 million this year to $3 billion in 2010. Now is a good time to refresh your understanding of RFID—and here is a good place to start. Turn to BEA for Webinars, solution briefs, and white papers that can help you get up to speed—and for the first end-to-end, standards-based infrastructure platform designed to let enterprises capitalize on the benefits of RFID technology.

If you work for a financial institution, you should read this white paper. It explains why most of today’s financial institutions are not prepared to face the credit, market, and operational challenges of meeting various requirements. It also describes how to design an infrastructure to support compliance, with strategies and tools for navigating the complex environments and information systems required to meet regulatory demands.

Is your organization struggling with implementing a proactive approach for managing enterprise risk and compliance? Forrester Research VP and industry expert Michael Rasmussen will share his insights and expertise on enterprise governance, risk, and compliance. As a bonus for attending this Webinar, you’ll get access to our Enterprise Risk and Compliance Website where you’ll find thought leadership white papers, diagnostics, and additional information to help you manage operational risk.

In the previous issue of this newsletter, we announced that Network Computing magazine awarded BEA AquaLogic Service Bus the coveted Editor’s Choice award for its “awesome Web-based orchestration environment and elegant monitoring and reporting features.” Now you can learn more, with a white paper that provides a technical overview of the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, and a product center that offers a wealth of detail to help you decide whether and how to incorporate this award-winning ESB into your organization’s architecture.

BEA AquaLogic User Interaction is an integrated set of products and tools designed for creating interactive solutions that leverage your service infrastructure, including portals and composite applications. Visit this product center to learn how BEA AquaLogic User Interaction combines technologies that new applications may require with a cross-platform framework designed to help speed the assembly of services into new applications and deliver them to users.

BEA WebLogic Portal 9.2, including the latest version of BEA WebLogic Workshop, is designed to deliver the business benefits of SOA to portal users. This release incorporates enterprise portal federation improvements to support the reuse of portal services in order to quickly address new business requirements. Among other enhancements, it includes a new community framework and many improvements to simplify the management of BEA WebLogic Portal.

BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.2 is designed for SOA enablement, blending open source technologies like Eclipse and Apache Beehive. It is also designed to enable unified Eclipse development of Java, portal, Web, and service-oriented applications.