Paul Krill
Editor at Large

BEA readies BPM upgrade

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Jul 18, 20071 min

BEA Systems plans this month to release a new version of its business process management suite, AquaLogic BPM 6.0, which has been optimized for complex process needs, the company said in an email bulletin on Wednesday. Also highlighted in the release are "simple-to-use" tools for IT and business users. In addition, version 6.0 focuses on ad hoc collaboration and SOA. Process types are enabled including collabora

BEA Systems plans this month to release a new version of its business process management suite, AquaLogic BPM 6.0, which has been optimized for complex process needs, the company said in an email bulletin on Wednesday.

Also highlighted in the release are “simple-to-use” tools for IT and business users. In addition, version 6.0 focuses on ad hoc collaboration and SOA. Process types are enabled including collaborative human processes and system-centric processes.

BEA’s Dev2Dev Web site for developers has had a page that said version 6.0 features a new version of the BPM Studio process modeling and design tool based on the Eclipse platform. Also in version 6.0 are support for BPEL 2.0, XML Process Definition Language 2.0 and enhanced business rules.

Others features include optimized integration with BEA’s AquaLogic Service bus and support for WS-Security User Name Token Profile. A new configuration wizard is featured for the WebLogic Server application server.

Paul Krill

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