BEA Alliance

"Today's CIOs are searching for integrated solutions that increase financial performance, improve operational efficiencies and allow them to be more responsive to their clients. The alliance forged between BEA and CSC is focused on providing such solutions. BEA's integrated enterprise platform and services-based architecture combined with CSC's implementation and services expertise enable our mutual clients to quickly realize a significant time to value for their IT investment." Alfred S. Chuang Founder, Chairman and CEO BEA Systems, Inc.

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is one of the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise foundation for more than 13,500 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. Headquartered in San Jose, California., BEA has 81 offices in 34 countries. For additional information on BEA visit http://www.bea.com.

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The CSC and BEA Alliance

For more than five years, CSC and BEA have been global alliance partners. By combining best-in-class service capabilities and products, CSC and BEA provide superior solutions to help organizations of all sizes leverage today's technology and business opportunities while preparing for the future. CSC provides consulting, systems integration and hosting for BEA's WebLogic Enterprise Platform and BEA's AquaLogic Suite. The global reach of CSC's consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services, helps BEA provide a competitive advantage to clients seeking to generate and sustain value.

BEA offers products and services that help enterprises achieve value more quickly for critical business applications using open standards, web services and a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The major product lines that BEA provides includes:

• The BEA WebLogic Platform is the leading application platform suite for developers service-enabling their applications. It includes BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic Integration™, BEA WebLogic Workshop™ and BEA JRockit
• The BEA Workshop product family provides professional tools for the blended development of today's service-oriented enterprise applications.
• The BEA AquaLogic family is the first product suite built from the ground up for SOA, giving IT a unified set of products that handles user interaction, messaging, service management, data unification and security needs.

CSC delivers powerful offerings based on the BEA platform including:

• Corporate Style Self Service Offering: Corporate Style Self Service combines BEA's award-winning, standards-based technologies and CSC's market leadership in J2EE. The Self Service Portal provides a balance of technology, strategy and best practices that can enable any organization to take advantage of the cost benefits of Self Service.
• BEA Tuxedo Service Enablement Offering: CSC, BEA and Intel have joined forces to create a BEA Tuxedo Service Enablement offering that helps clients use BEA Tuxedo services in a mixed technology environment. It’s meant for those retiring older hardware platforms running BEA Tuxedo, who need an interim strategy that allows for a controlled, phased migration.