Jul 8, 2002
New BEA Portal Solution Center Helps Speed Portal Deployments
Brings Together BEA and 100 Partner Solutions to Simplify Portal Design And Development

SAN JOSE, Calif., -- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, today launched the BEA Portal Solution Center ( http://portalsolutions.bea.com), an online resource center for businesses to design and develop enterprise portal solutions. The BEA Portal Solution Center helps to simplify portal design and development by providing secure, self-service access to a catalog of portlets, pre-built connections to third-party applications, and pre-designed portal solutions from leading systems integrators.

The primary causes for lengthy portal deployment times are often complexity and scope of the portal projects. The BEA Portal Solution Center helps businesses overcome these challenges by providing a resource catalog that already includes more than 100 portlets and portal integrations covering collaboration, content management, CRM, wireless and security. Businesses also can view pre-designed and industry-specific portal solutions from leading systems integrators such as Deloitte Consulting, PwC Consulting and Xcelerate.

"The portal selection and deployment process has been exacerbated by a fragmented market of vendors and solutions, traditionally focused only on knowledge management portals," said Michael DeBellis, principal and e-business chief technology officer, Deloitte Consulting. "The BEA Portal Solution Center unifies the resources needed to quickly design, develop and deploy enterprise-wide portals. As a leader in the portal and application server markets, BEA allows us to create compelling solutions that meet clients' time-to-market requirements and long-term business goals."

The BEA Portal Solution Center initially includes content from more than 30 of BEA's 75 Portal Star Solution partners, allowing them to submit, share and promote portlets, portal integrations and business portal solutions for BEA WebLogic Portal. Because the Portal Solution Center is built on BEA WebLogic Portal(TM), each partner is provided administrative power to self maintain content. The BEA Portal Solution Center is designed to give BEA Portal Star Solution partners greater access to its more than 13,000 customers. Some of these partners include Air2Web, Autonomy, Business Objects, Compoze Software, Documentum, Entegrity, FatWire, Hyperion, ScreamingMedia, Verity and WebEx Communications.

"The BEA Portal Solution Center delivers tremendous value to businesses planning enterprise-wide portal deployments and requiring a quick, successful and future-proofed solution," said Mark Fasciano, CEO of FatWire. "As an added benefit, the BEA Portal Solution Center is a high visibility and effective go-to-market channel where we can expose our content management solutions to BEA's broad base of customers and leading systems integrators."

The BEA Portal Solution Center is available at http://portalsolutions.bea.com.

About BEA BEA Systems, Inc. is the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software foundation for 13,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic(R) brand are among the most trusted names in business.

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 91 offices in 33 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com http://www.bea.com.

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CONTACT: Susan Siegel of BEA Systems, Inc., +1-408-570-8364, or susan.siegel@bea.com; or Ron Piovesan of Applied Communications, +1-415-365-0222, ext. 379, or rpiovesan@appliedcom.com, for BEA Systems, Inc.