BEA WebLogic Workshop Customers Achieve Dramatic Productivity Gains and Increased ROI

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Thursday, December 12, 2002; 12:00 AM

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec 12, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. (BEAS) , the world's leading application infrastructure company, today announced that innovative customers such as Calpine, Collaxa, Confluent, Documentum, GeoTrust, McGraw-Hill, Palm and Verizon are using the award-winning BEA WebLogic Workshop(TM) to solve difficult enterprise integration problems with unparalleled ease and speed. BEA WebLogic Workshop is a comprehensive visual development framework and runtime environment that can empower application developers, not only J2EE experts, to rapidly create, test, and deploy enterprise-class Web services.

GeoTrust, a leading provider of Internet identity and trust solutions, was able to complete a recent Web services project in half the time originally projected. The challenge facing GeoTrust was to greatly simplify and accelerate the process by which Web hosting companies apply for, and receive, digital certificates. It is an inherently complex process and one that Web hosting firms often find slow and frustrating, thereby reducing their eagerness to resell the certificates.

"The Web services that we built on BEA can enable Web hosting companies to link directly to us without the need for any expensive and resource-intensive systems integration," said Mike Valdez, director of engineering of GeoTrust. "The result is that as soon as a hosting firm receives an order from a business customer, it can electronically request and receive a digital certificate from us in a matter of minutes and deliver the certificate to its customer without any human intervention."

By radically simplifying the process of creating Web services, BEA WebLogic Workshop can enable companies to leverage developer skills at all levels and shorten development schedules by weeks or even months. In fact, many integration projects would not be feasible without BEA WebLogic Workshop due to excessive time, resource and financial requirements.

"We are delighted with the value that Workshop provides and the results it is delivering for our enterprise customers," said Byron Sebastian, vice president and general manager of BEA Systems, Inc. "Customers tell us they are very excited about the possibilities that Workshop is opening up by enabling IT organizations to utilize all their existing applications and developer assets to quickly build composite applications that deliver measurable ROI."

"I can say without a doubt that the Web services we've built on BEA WebLogic Workshop are making us more competitive, more attractive to potential customers and channel partners, and are contributing significantly to our revenue and marketshare growth," said GeoTrust's Mike Valdez, director of engineering. "From both a business and technical point of view, we're able to get more done, in less time, with fewer people than we ever could in the past."

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