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BEA eWorld Europe 2001 Conference in Munich Expected to Draw 2,000 Attendees
BEA to Unveil New Products, Programs and Partners to Help Future-Proof E-Businesses
MUNICH, Germany, BEA eWORLD Europe 2001, Jun 11, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS chart, msgs), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, expects approximately 2,000 attendees at its fourth annual BEA eWorld Europe e-commerce conference, to be held June 11-13, 2001, in Munich. European business and IT executives, software developers, BEA customers and partners will come together at the conference to share best practices on how to future-proof their businesses and to learn how to reduce the time and cost of moving their core business operations online. BEA eWorld Europe will feature more than 60 educational sessions, including presentations from BMW, Deutsche Bank, Bertelsmann Media Systems, CSC and Sun Microsystems, plus more than 70 exhibitors, including Cambridge Technology Partners, Integris GmbH, Vignette and Unisys Corporation.
Keynote presenters will share their insights into the factors critical to success in Europe's New Economy and their visions for the future from a variety of perspectives. Presenters include:
-- Bill Coleman, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, BEA
Systems, Inc.
-- Alfred S. Chuang, Founder, President, and Chief Operations Officer, BEA
Systems, Inc.
-- Daniel Hartert, CEO and President, Bertelsmann Media Systems
-- Thomas Dolby Robertson, Founder of Beatnik.com and Grammy-nominated
musician
-- Dr. Hellmuth Broda, Chief Technologist Europe, Middle East and Africa,
Sun Microsystems Computers; and member, Sun Vision Council
"BEA eWorld Europe provides the opportunity for IT and business executives to share practical and proven business views to succeed in tough and unpredictable economic times," said Bill Coleman, founder, chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, Inc. "Future-proofed businesses can use their infrastructure software to make them more flexible and agile, so they can win and maintain their competitive advantage. BEA eWorld Europe is about helping organizations take advantage of BEA's products, vision and partner network to build an infrastructure that has the power to effectively and efficiently respond to change and create value for customers."
At BEA eWorld Europe 2001, BEA will continue to demonstrate its success and its expansion of the BEA WebLogic(R) E-Business Platform through a series of customer, partner, product and program announcements. BEA's announcements include:
-- BEA customers and partners. The company will demonstrate the
expansion of its award-winning BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM),
and its success in key vertical markets, with new customers and
partners. The customers and partners include: retailer and sporting
goods manufacturer adidas; financial institutions Robeco and
Arcordia Solutions, a subsidiary of JPMorgan; auto and motorsport
manufacturer BMW; wireless provider Radiolinja and mobile gaming
partner Gamefederation; transportation companies SNCF and TNT
Express.
-- Partner Project, I-Vote System. In an effort to improve the
efficiency of the democratic election process, German consulting
company IVL (Data and Information Processing Leverkusen) and
research group Internet-Voting created the new "I-Vote" system,
built on BEA WebLogic Server(TM). I-Vote enables voters to cast
ballots from their mobile telephones or via the Internet, making it
easier than ever for voters to cast ballots. The new system will be
used in a local election July 2001, in Esslingen, Germany.
-- BEA WebLogic customer survey. BEA surveyed nearly 250 of its
Fortune 500 and Global 500 BEA WebLogic customers. Results showed
that of those that have standardized on a Web application server
across their business, four out of five have standardized on BEA
WebLogic. And providing a view of businesses' adoption of Java in
the enterprise, 87 percent of those surveyed indicated they are
using Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) for new applications, and
respondents forecast a 266 percent average increase in EJB
deployment in the next 12 months.
-- BEA Tuxedo(R) 8.0 and BEA WebLogic Enterprise(TM) 6.0. BEA
announced the availability of the latest versions of BEA's flagship
enterprise application server solutions, BEA Tuxedo 8.0 and BEA
WebLogic Enterprise(TM) 6.0. In addition, IT Design and EuroControl
have begun beta tests of BEA Tuxedo 8.0, the newest release of the
leading software platform for C, C++ and COBOL programming. BEA
WebLogic Enterprise 6.0 unites in a single offering the BEA WebLogic
Server and the new version of BEA Tuxedo.
-- New BEA Wireless Star Solution. BEA announced the Wireless Star
Solution, and 24 initial members. BEA Wireless Star Solution is
designed to help members address existing and emerging markets with
innovative wireless applications and services. It will provide
independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators (SIs) and
application service providers (ASPs) with expanded business
opportunities, and will help joint customers quickly integrate and
deploy mobile applications and services on BEA WebLogic.
BEA eWorld Europe 2001 is supported by Platinum Sponsors Sun and CSC, Gold Sponsors Integris and Vignette, and Silver Sponsors Cambridge Technology Partners and Unisys, and six Bronze Sponsors. To register for |
