SAN JOSE, Calif., April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DID YOU KNOW?

BEA's success is based on its ability to help customers embrace emerging technologies to reduce IT complexity and cost, and re-direct those resources to create competitive advantage. The latest technology trend to benefit customers is service-oriented architecture (SOA) -- a set of principles and practices for sharing, reusing and orchestrating business logic represented as services or components.

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Visit http://www.bea.com/ahl/ to read about how BEA has helped a financial services customer leverage the industry-leading BEA WebLogic Platform(TM) to build a SOA that can automate processes to increase productivity and revenue.

Only BEA has a unified, standards-based infrastructure that can quickly help customers build SOAs. Based on a common set of components that can be re-used across services and applications, BEA's SOA approach can enable tight integration and communication between disparate systems and Web assets. BEA WebLogic Platform is designed to uniquely provide a common administration, security, user interface and coding framework designed to make it easier and more cost effective to deliver new services and functionality-ultimately helping customers to significantly reduce costs and increase revenue.

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