At BEAWorld in Shanghai, BEA announced the new BEA AquaLogic Service Bus™ 3.0, which helps transition initial SOA projects to enterprise-wide rollouts for true business transformation. BEA AquaLogic Service Bus allows customers to quickly service-enable and reuse existing enterprise assets into composite applications that are essential for delivering business agility. This latest release delivers key capabilities for a unified composition environment, unparalleled quality of service and performance, optimized connectivity to non-SOA assets, rapid building of composite applications that span multiple SOA domains, integrated closed-loop governance, and unified SOA & BPM.

General availability is scheduled for Q1 2008, so now is the right time to find out what BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 means for architects.

In a recent benchmark study BEA WebLogic Event Server was able to sustain an event injection rate of up to one million events per second while maintaining microsecond latencies on Intel. Find out how you can leverage BEA WebLogic Event Server to process high data volumes while achieving very low latency.

SOA, BPM, and Enterprise Social Computing (ESC) can help your business transform the way its SAP-based systems serve customers, partners, and employees. Other companies are innovating over SAP, so the competitive pressure is on — and BEA is ready to help.

An informative new white paper from the BPM and SOA experts at BEA describes architectural best practices for enhancing the agility of your enterprise. Learn more about how SOA works with BPM for service mediation, data services, orchestration, and connectivity — and the role of SOA governance.

More than 4700 potential support issues have been prevented so far by the BEA Guardian tool, and it has helped to reduce worldwide average case closure time by 88 percent. Find out more about what its 'preemptive support' model can do for your organization.

BEAParticipate 2008 is an exclusive event for BEA customers and partners interested in user interaction, business process management, collaboration, and Enterprise Social Computing. Participate in this unique business-oriented and technology-infused forum to learn, share, and establish relationships with fellow practitioners.

In the everything-is-connected SOA environment, the selection of services to be used in a project has architectural and alignment repercussions. Prescriptive service use allows those decisions to be made when they will do the most good.

Want an insightful, individual view of virtualization, the BEA Liquid VM, and hypervisor? Check out this interview with Martin Percival, senior technical evangelist for BEA in EMEA. Except for the brief Dutch introduction, the rest of the interview is in English.