BEA and BroadVision Strategic Alliance Delivers Next-Generation E-Business Solutions
SAN JOSE, Calif. & REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Apr 24, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Companies Deliver On First Phase of Alliance, Ensure Interoperability
Between BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise and BEA WebLogic Server
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS chart, msgs), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, and BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq: BVSN chart, msgs; Neuer Markt:BDN), a leading worldwide supplier of personalized e-business applications, today announced the two companies have delivered on the first phase of their strategic alliance, announced in November 2000, making BroadVision's J2EE-enabled application platform, BroadVision One-To-One(R)Enterprise 6.0 (generally available since March 31, 2001), fully interoperable with BEA WebLogic(R)Server.
Future versions of BroadVision's application platform will embed BEA WebLogic Server(TM), which will be shipped as part of BroadVision's application suite. Embedding BEA WebLogic Server into BroadVision's e-business application suite will create one of the most powerful, open standards-based e-business solutions available. The integrated BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise 6.0 and BEA WebLogic Server suite will enable customers to extend and operate all BroadVision-powered e-business applications under a full J2EE-compliant environment.
The companies also announced they have expanded their strategic alliance to provide BroadVision customers with rapid access to Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform technologies using BEA WebLogic Server. By extending the standard embedded license agreement, BEA has granted BroadVision the right to provide a limited quantity of BEA WebLogic Server licenses to new BEA customers to enhance their BroadVision application capabilities using BEA WebLogic Server.
The announcement reinforces the strategic alliance between the two companies under which BroadVision agreed to embed BEA WebLogic Server within BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise, BroadVision's e-business application platform. The two companies also agreed to engage in collaborative engineering and marketing initiatives to supply next-generation e-business solutions that combine the market's leading Java-based application server with the leading e-business software applications.
"Our unique partnership with BEA offers our customers `one-stop shopping' for a winning combination of full J2EE technology extensibility and quick time-to-market e-business applications," said Dr. Pehong Chen, president, chairman and CEO of BroadVision. "This strategic alliance creates a best-of-breed e-business solution that will be compelling to new customers as well as to both companies' existing customer bases."
"By encouraging our partners to adopt open standards, like J2EE, we can help drive the proliferation of these standards in the marketplace," said Alfred Chuang, founder, president and chief operating officer of BEA. "This expanded strategic relationship provides BroadVision customers with a faster evolutionary path to adopt J2EE platform technologies and to quickly take advantage of our open standards-based e-business platform, and it provides BEA customers with powerful e-business application solutions based on the BEA platform."
About BroadVision
BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN chart, msgs; Neuer Markt:BDN) develops and delivers an integrated suite of packaged applications for conducting e-commerce interactions and transactions. Global enterprises and government entities use these applications to sell, buy and exchange information over the web and on wireless devices. The BroadVision e-commerce application suite enables a corporation to become more competitive and profitable by establishing and sustaining high-yield relationships with customers, suppliers and employees. BroadVision services professionals, supported by over 100 partner organizations worldwide, transform these applications into business value for our customers through consulting, education, and support services in more than 34 countries.
BroadVision - founded in 1993, public since 1996 - has over 1,000 customers. IDC ranks BroadVision as the world's leading provider of e-commerce software applications (International Data Corp., E-Commerce Software Applications Market Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004). BroadVision is headquartered in Redwood City, California and can be reached at 650/261-5100 or info@broadvision.com.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS chart, msgs) is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with more than 9,400 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic(R) brand are among the most trusted names in e-business. Businesses built on the award-winning BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM) are reliable, highly scalable, and poised to bring new services to market quickly. BEA's e-business platform is the de facto standard for more than 1,500 systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and application service providers (ASPs) to provide complete solutions that fast-track and future-proof e-businesses for high growth and profitability. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 93 offices in 30 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.
Statements in this press release which are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding BroadVision embedding and shipping WebLogic Server; the benefits and features of the integrated One-to-One Enterprise 6.0 and WebLogic Server products; BroadVision's and BEA's marketing and engineering initiatives; BroadVision and BEA supplying next-generation e-business solutions and the functionality and benefits of such solutions; and BroadVision creating the industry's most comprehensive e-business application platform. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as those related to: any technological difficulties related to integrating BroadVision's and BEA's technologies; the success in the company in expanding its distribution and support channels; the introduction by competitors of new products developed internally or acquired; any software errors or other unforeseen technological difficulties, and any rapid technological changes in the market for e-business software which could render BEA's or BroadVision's solutions less competitive. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures outlined in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2000, BroadVision's Form 10-K filed for the year ended December 31, 2000, and subsequent reports filed thereafter from time-to-time by each of BEA and BroadVision with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and neither BEA nor BroadVision assumes any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.
BEA, BEA Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. The BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Process Integrator, BEA WebLogic Collaborate are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc.
BroadVision and BroadVision One-To-One are registered trademarks of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other names herein may be the property of their respective owners.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Java, J2EE, Enterprise JavaBeans and JavaServer Pages are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
Contact:
BroadVision, Inc.
Amber Rowland, 650/542-5881
amber.rowland@broadvision.com
or
BEA Systems, Inc.
Mary Erickson, 408/570-8413
mary.erickson@bea.com |
