BEA looks to create a portal into SOA (SearchWebservices)

Everyone pays lip service to the importance of business process management (BPM) and now BEA Systems Inc. believes it's a created a portal which actually might get people to use it.

The company has released what it calls the AquaLogic Interaction Process 1.5, a wordy designation for the upgraded version of the BPM capabilities inside the portal product it bought in last year's Plumtree Software Inc. acquisition. New is a BPM designer and execution engine along with collaboration tools.

BEA also sells the WebLogic Portal 8.1 product, but Christine Wan, director of product marketing for AquaLogic Interaction Process, explained that the WebLogic portal aims more at the hardcore Java developer while the AquaLogic portal aims at assembling a broad array of applications, including .NET applications, rather than developing them.