Wednesday November 15, 8:58 pm Eastern Time
Press Release
BEA and BroadVision Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver Next-Generation E-Business Solutions
SAN JOSE, Calif. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2000
BroadVision® E-business Application Platform to Embed BEA WebLogic
Server - Companies to Engage in Marketing and Engineering Initiatives
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAS - news), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, and BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN - news; Neuer Markt:BDN), a leading worldwide supplier of personalized e-business applications, today announced a strategic alliance under which BroadVision has agreed to embed BEA WebLogic Server(TM) within BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise®, BroadVision's e-business application platform.
The two companies have agreed to engage in collaborative engineering and marketing initiatives. Together, the companies will supply next-generation e-business solutions that combine the market's leading Java-based application server with the leading e-business software applications.
The addition of BEA WebLogic Server to the BroadVision product suite is part of BroadVision's strategy for enabling full Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) support, allowing BroadVision customers to customize and extend their one-to-one, personalized e-business applications using popular J2EE platform technologies. In a separate release issued today, BroadVision announced One-To-One Enterprise Version 6, which includes enhanced support for Java technologies (including Enterprise JavaBeans(TM), JavaServer Pages(TM), and servlets), new systems tools and a high-performance persistent cache mechanism.
This relationship is designed to provide BroadVision's customers with an evolutionary path to J2EE platform technologies and let BEA's thousands of existing customers -- as well as future customers -- who have standardized on the J2EE platform take advantage of BroadVision's suite of leading e-business applications. In addition, the two companies can benefit from strong relationships with global systems integrators who want to develop and sell repeatable solutions based on these technologies.
``Our partnership with BEA is part of our ongoing commitment to deliver the most open and powerful e-business solutions,'' said Dr. Pehong Chen, president, chairman and CEO of BroadVision. ``By combining BEA's web infrastructure expertise with BroadVision's long experience in self-service business applications, we are working to create the industry's most comprehensive e-business application platform.''
``BroadVision customers now have a clear path to future-proofing their B2B and B2C application portfolios, by building on BEA WebLogic Server, the clear market leader in sales, the industry leader in working J2EE implementations, and the vision leader in harnessing the power of enterprise Java,'' said Bill Coleman, founder, chairman and CEO of BEA Systems. ``This partnership with BroadVision is further validation of BEA's e-business platform leadership, which is particularly significant coming from one of the world's leading e-commerce applications companies.''
About BroadVision
BroadVision (Nasdaq:BVSN - news), (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 - news) is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with over 8,000 customers around the world including the majority of the Fortune Global 100. BEA and its WebLogic 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 over 1,000 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 89 offices in 30 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.
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.
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 WebLogic Server; 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 July 31, 2000,BroadVision's Form 10-K filed for the year ended December 31, 1999 and BroadVision's Forms 10-Q for each of the quarters ended March 31, 2000, June 30, 2000 and September 30, 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.
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Contact:
for BEA Systems, Inc.
Mary Erickson, 408/570-8413
mary.erickson@bea.com
or
for BroadVision
Magnet Communications
Jenny Hunter, 510/428-4100 x207
jhunter@magnetcom.com
or
Theresa Chavez, 510-428-4100 x240
tchavez@magnetcom.com
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