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BEA Systems, Inc. was a company specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products which was wholly acquired by Oracle Corporation on April 29, 2008.
BEA began as a software company, founded in 1995 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It grew to have 78 offices worldwide at the time of its acquisition by Oracle.
The company's name is an initialism of the first names of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang. All were former employees of Sun Microsystems, and launched the business in 1995 by acquiring Information Management and Independence Technologies. These firms were the largest resellers of Tuxedo, a distributed transaction management system sold by Novell. BEA soon acquired the Tuxedo product itself, and went on to acquire other middleware companies and products, including ObjectBroker and NCR's Top End product.
In 1998, BEA acquired the San Francisco start-up WebLogic, which had built the first standards-based Java application server. WebLogic's application server became the impetus for the Sun Microsystems' J2EE specification and formed the basis of BEA's WebLogic application server sold today.
Edward W. "Ed" Scott, Jr. is an American businessman, philanthropist, and former senior United States government official. Along with Bill Coleman and Alfred Chuang, he founded enterprise software company BEA Systems.
Scott worked for the United States government for seventeen years. Mr. Scott served seven Attorneys General (Republicans and Democrats), reaching the position of Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Administration in the Office of Management and Finance in the Department of Justice. He also served three Secretaries of Transportation. During the Carter administration, Scott served as an Assistant Secretary for Administration in the Department of Transportation and was a recipient of the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive as well as the William A. Jump Memorial Foundation Meritorious Award for Exemplary Achievement in Public Administration.
After leaving government service, Scott entered the technology industry, working for Computer Consoles Inc., Pyramid Technology and Sun Microsystems where he co-founded Sun Federal, which provided services to the U.S. government. Scott co-founded BEA Systems in 1995, where he was President and Executive Vice President for World Wide Field Operations. He now has no direct role in the management of the firm. Oracle purchased BEA Systems in 2008 for $8.5 billion.
The software industry includes businesses for development, maintenance and publication of software that are using different business models, mainly either "license/maintenance based" (on-premises) or "Cloud based" (such as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, MaaS, AaaS, etc.). The industry also includes software services, such as training, documentation, consulting and data recovery.
The word "software" was coined as a prank as early as 1953, but did not appear in print until the 1960s. Before this time, computers were programmed either by customers, or the few commercial computer vendors of the time, such as UNIVAC and IBM. The first company founded to provide software products and services was Computer Usage Company in 1955.
The software industry expanded in the early 1960s, almost immediately after computers were first sold in mass-produced quantities. Universities, government, and business customers created a demand for software. Many of these programs were written in-house by full-time staff programmers. Some were distributed freely between users of a particular machine for no charge. Others were done on a commercial basis, and other firms such as Computer Sciences Corporation (founded in 1959) started to grow. Other influential or typical software companies begun in the early 1960s included Advanced Computer Techniques, Automatic Data Processing, Applied Data Research, and Informatics General. The computer/hardware makers started bundling operating systems, systems software and programming environments with their machines.
Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than individual users. Such organizations would include businesses, schools, interest-based user groups, clubs, charities, or governments. Enterprise software is an integral part of a (computer based) Information System.
Services provided by enterprise software are typically business-oriented tools such as online shopping and online payment processing, interactive product catalogue, automated billing systems, security, enterprise content management, IT service management, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, project management, collaboration, human resource management, manufacturing, enterprise application integration, and enterprise forms automation.
As enterprises have similar departments and systems in common, enterprise software is often available as a suite of customizable programs. Generally, the complexity of these tools requires specialist capabilities and specific knowledge.
Bea or BEA, as a name, abbreviation, or acronym, may refer to:
The recent £135million (US$200million) contract win to provide the Swedish and Norwegian armed forces with 48 Archer 155mm artillery systems and ammunition is the latest in a series of contract wins and delivery successes for BAE Systems global land business. The announcement follows a £100million development programme which began in 2003 and will see the first vehicles enter service in late 2011. The Archer contract reflects another recent success for BAE Systems when the CTA weapon system, developed in partnership with French defence company Nexter, was mandated for the British Army's FRES and Warrior programmes. Across the Atlantic the company has also been selected to provide its Check-6 infrared camera to more than 2,300 US Army all terrain M-ATV vehicles. Valued at around $45 ...
Sarah Atkinson, früher Director Public Relations bei BEA Systems (heute: Oracle), über die Zusammenarbeit mit Maisberger. http://www.maisberger.com/
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An Interview with Edward W. Scott, American Businessman, Philanthropist; Co-Founder of Enterprise Software Company BEA Systems. The Interview was made by Cade Christopher Russel and Koen Wellink (MA Students, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies) The Berlin International Economics Congress 2013 (Berlin, March 6th-10th 2013) Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies Publication Institute for Cultural Diplomacy www.ccds-berlin.de www.culturaldiplomacy.org
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Customers in the telecommunications market are demanding more and more communication and collaboration service that converge with internet and telecom capabilities into an integrated user experience. Watch this video and learn first hand how the Italtel Group, headquartered in Milan, Italy is using BEA WebLogic SIP Server and BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper to implement their new converged solutions and service enablers.