BEA unveiled a new strategy designed to help customers combat "web asset sprawl". Their answer revolves around a Service Oriented Architecture, and "portal lifecycle management tools". The white paper discusses architecture, best practices, and process.

This paper provides an overview of the problem of Web sprawl – the proliferation of complex and heterogeneous Web environments that are enormously costly to manage -- and provides an account of the rationalization strategies organizations are adopting to gain the upper hand on sprawl.

Adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) based on an integrated application platform infrastructure emerges as the key to rationalizing sprawl.  The paper explains how BEA’s service-oriented architecture and portal lifecycle management tools provide the benefits of a single platform without sacrificing the flexibility that constituents need to build custom-fit portals.

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