CapTech Applauds BEA Service Infrastructure Product Strategy

CapTech today announced its support for a new Service Infrastructure product strategy introduced by BEA™ Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS). Developed to help increase business agility while reducing IT cost and complexity, the Service Infrastructure products from BEA™ can help companies manage the service-oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle and more swiftly assemble composite applications and processes in heterogeneous environment. BEA Service Infrastructure product family is designed to help companies make the transition from pilot to full enterprise-wide production of their SOA.

SOA is a software design approach that takes the discrete business functions contained in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable, standards-based services. These services can be combined and reused in composite applications and processes to meet business needs. Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software designed to help enable the successful deployment of SOA in business environments by allowing services to be discovered, secured, managed and assembled into composite applications and processes – regardless of the underlying technology.

"Enterprise class SOA requires the ability to manage, secure, and assemble services dynamically and without traditional developer involvement," said CapTech Senior Architect, Mike Horn. "BEA™ Service Infrastructure is designed to help provide these capabilities to make COLA [Compose Once, Leverage Anywhere] a reality. The launch of Service Infrastructure helps to demonstrate that BEA™ is listening to the needs of the IT community and is continuing its leadership in the application of technology designed to help solve today’s business needs. As a Select BEA™ partner, CapTech offers professional consulting services to plan, design, and implement Enterprise class SOA. Together CapTech and BEA™ can partner to deliver technology and services solutions designed to meet the IT challenges of today."

"Our customers are looking for simple and fast and standards-based approach to deploying a successful SOA," said Gail Ennis, vice president of Worldwide Alliances. "By simplifying the integration, deployment and management of composite applications and services, CapTech and BEA™ can help save our customers significant development time and help them get from pilot stage to production with their SOA implementations."

Service Infrastructure Helps Move SOA from Pilot to Production

Customers gravitate to SOA’s modularity and flexibility, which is designed to help them to mix and match IT resources in a "virtual" infrastructure that is integrated while not being locked into a single vendor’s IT stack. SOA also reflects a move from thinking about IT in an "application" context to thinking about IT as a "services" delivery business – helping to enable IT departments to create, assemble and deliver new services more quickly for use by employees, customers, partners and suppliers. As a new approach to enterprise IT implementation and application development, SOA can break down business applications and features into "services" – specific pieces of functionality – which can be efficiently built, combined, adapted and reused.

Many customers are already using their application infrastructure software (application servers, integration servers, development tools and portal software) to build and deploy their early SOA projects. As SOA moves from pilot to production, companies have found that they need new infrastructure that is designed to help them to quickly compose, deliver, configure and manage these services. Customers typically encounter this once they have built and deployed more than 50 services, which can result in a "services sprawl" that requires constant integration and can be difficult to scale. They also need new composition tools that work like an "assembly line" for building cars, in addition to traditional coding tools they used for "building car parts." Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software designed to help enable businesses compose, configure and reuse technology assets to meet business needs in a more assembly line model.

Building on Success – CAPTECH and BEA™

CapTech and BEA have worked together for five years to provide customers with a seamless integration of infrastructure software solutions designed to help customers to run their businesses more efficiently. Among those customers are several large fortune 500 clients in the central and northern Virginia area.