Paul Krill
Editor at Large

BEA sets July release for Web 2.0 products

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Jun 15, 20072 mins

BEA Systems plans in July to ship three products that leverage Web 2.0 concepts. The products are referred to as BEA's "enterprise social computing" products, said Ajay Gandhi, BEA director of emerging products in the company's Business Interaction Division. With the three AquaLogic offerings - Ensemble, Pages and Pathways, the company is looking to meld consumer capabilities for managing information and communi

BEA Systems plans in July to ship three products that leverage Web 2.0 concepts.

The products are referred to as BEA’s “enterprise social computing” products, said Ajay Gandhi, BEA director of emerging products in the company’s Business Interaction Division. With the three AquaLogic offerings – Ensemble, Pages and Pathways, the company is looking to meld consumer capabilities for managing information and communities to the enterprise.

“We think Web 2.0 is a logical progression of Web 1.0, where you have this great content space and addressable network that was built and now we added on top of it interaction technologies on the consumer side to let people interact with each other,” Gandhi said.

BEA touted the three products at a company event in San Jose, Calif. on Thursday evening.

AquaLogic Pages is a mashup builder designed to let business users build simple Web applications for different business situations. Different data and content can be brought together.

“You can do everything from a basic wiki to a blog,” Gandhi said. A mashup could be built, for example, to track a customer support issue.

AquaLogic Ensemble is designed for Web application developers. “It essentially lets you build very flexible and developer-oriented mashups,” said Gandhi. Web resources can be mashed with other applications; Ensemble is designed to work with XML widgets. Developers not have to code all the APIs, Gandhi said.

AquaLogic Pathways also is designed for business users. It brings social bookmarking and tagging and the ability to form social networks into the enterprise context. Pathways makes enterprise search more effective, said Gandhi. Users can create networks of relevant persons for a particular subject.

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