BEA Signs 4 New Component Technology Consulting Firms To Meet Demand for Professional Services For BEA M3 Customers
Leading Service Providers Endorse BEA Solutions
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 1998-- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), a market leader in distributed mission-critical middleware solutions for the world's largest enterprises, today announced the expansion of the professional services offerings available for BEA M3™ component middleware customers by adding four additional consulting firms specializing in object technology to its Authorized Service Provider (ASP) program. With this announcement, BEA is enhancing the safe and evolutionary path it is providing to companies and business partners adopting object- and component-based technology.
The four new BEA ASP partners have worldwide delivery capabilities and include experts in the areas of object-oriented architecture and design, CORBA, Java development, telecommunications, and finance. The new partners are: International Centers for Telecommunication Technology, Inc.(ICTT), Object Integration; Softport Systems, Inc., and Velankani Information Systems (VIS). With this program, BEA is responding to its enterprise customer's needs for development, design, and implementation expertise in the area of object technology.
''BEA realizes that enterprise companies are wanting to augment their existing staff with end-to-end development and deployment expertise in order to implement and maintain component-based technology in mission-critical IT systems,'' said Barbara Britton, vice president of worldwide services for BEA. ''The addition of these new partners makes it easier to provide our customers with knowledgeable resources, in addition to our professional services team, which is key to our customers' success.
''With the expansion of our capabilities in this area, BEA is assembling what we believe to be the largest worldwide services organization focused solely on mission-critical objects in the industry,'' said Britton. ''By adding these companies into our Authorized Service Provider network, our customers have access to an expanded pool of talented experts to help them implement object- and component-based applications.''
The BEA M3 ASP program offers our customers additional qualified consultants and systems integrators, who are trained and certified to deliver field engagements for BEA M3. ASP partners for BEA M3 cover a broad spectrum of service areas and geographies. These include:
•ICTT A firm specializing in object oriented modeling, design, and system implementation with specialties in telecommunications covering the U.S. and international markets, ictt.com. •Object Integration CORBA integration expertise, Java, and ERP to mainframe integration specialist serving the U.S., obji.com. •Softport Systems Specializes in object oriented modeling, design, and system implementation for large scale multi-tier applications focusing on the following verticals in the U.S. Financial, Manufacturing, Retail, and Pharmaceuticals., softportsystems.com •VIS Object oriented technology with specialization in telephony and finance serving the U.S., velankani.com.
ASP Program Expansion
BEA's ASP program is a strategic sales and marketing effort created to deploy world-class consultants, trainers, and systems integrators in a variety of markets. Adding additional companies that focus on object technology to the ASP program augments the existing BEA and third-party professional services capabilities available to customers implementing objects in their most important applications.
BEA's ASP program offers training, product licenses, technical support, and marketing assistance to qualified consulting firms and systems integrators. The program allows participating firms to provide a rich set of services to BEA's customers, with some of the world's largest IS organizations that are designing, developing, and deploying mission-critical, object-based middleware solutions for their enterprise.
In addition to BEA's ASP program, the BEA Component Development Center, located in Denver, Colorado, services all industries and geographies worldwide to provide large, enterprise customers with premier object-based consulting, project management, solution development, and deployment assistance. The center reflects BEA's commitment to full life-cycle development, technology transfer, mentoring, and training customer developers and users to maintain and modify their applications to meet changing business requirements.
Existing BEA ASPs include: Component Systems; Concept5 Technologies, Inc.; Gamma Computer, Inc.; Genesis Development Corporation; International Systems Group, Inc.; PSW Technologies, Inc [Nasdaq:PSWT - news].; Tanning Technology Corporation; and Visual Edge Software, Ltd.
BEA Systems, Inc.
BEA Systems, Inc., is a leading provider of cross-platform middleware solutions for enterprise applications. BEA's products and services enable mission-critical, distributed applications to work seamlessly in client/server, Internet, and legacy environments. BEA provides transactional, messaging, and distributed object-based software, as well as an industry-leading Java Web application server, for developing and deploying these enterprise applications. The BEA WebLogic application server, developed and supported by BEA's WebXpress division, offers the critical front-end Web component to BEA's end-to-end enterprise middleware solution. In addition to its broad software product line, BEA provides complete solutions to its customers through its extensive partner network, and a full range of services including consulting, training, and support. BEA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has 50 offices in 24 countries around the globe. The company's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ''BEAS.'' Additional information on BEA is available on the Internet at beasys.com.
BEA is a registered trademark of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA M3 is a trademark of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.
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''ICTT is pleased to be a part of BEA's ASP program. BEA's M3 object technology complements ICTT's system engineering methodology for the integration of embedded intelligence and operations systems in telecommunications, automotive, construction, and mobile system applications. The large scale mission-critical systems represented by these applications help provide our clients with new levels of competitive strength for component-based technology.''
Bill Schindel President International Centers for Telecommunication Technology, Inc.
''Object Integration is excited by the opportunities that have been created by the first industrial-strength object transaction manager, BEA M3. Object Integration is pleased to offer its BEA M3 Rapid Prototyping Service to BEA customers moving to this new technology. This service helps allow companies to rapidly explore the benefits that BEA M3 provides to their new and existing applications.''
Chris Eastland Director of Distributed Database Development Object Integration, Inc.
''In the 15 years Softport has been implementing multi-tier solutions for Fortune 500 companies, BEA M3 is the first platform product we feel confident using to build our client's distributed systems. It allows us to work with distributed objects without having to worry about scalability issues, and enables us to implement both large-scale and small-scale applications on a single platform, which is a big win for most companies.''
Hal Aaron President Softport Systems, Inc.
''Today in the telephony industry many new and exciting companies are being created to deliver diversified services to their clients. Successful companies are creating systems that enable traditional services to be deployed on time, with flexibility, and accuracy. It is obvious to us that the BEA M3 middleware product, which is based on CORBA, is important to obtaining this goal. Combined with BEA's knowledge of transporting data through the enterprise, BEA M3 is the first industrial-strength middleware product on the market. Our staff is already incorporating this technology into our Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) solutions, one of which is moving data from network elements into ordering, alarming, and billing systems.''
Michael Orshan Vice President of Marketing Velankani Information Systems.
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