06/10/2005

iWay Software, an Information Builders company and an adaptive software provider, today announced its support for a new Service Infrastructure product strategy introduced by BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS). The BEA Service Infrastructure product family is designed to help companies make the transition from pilot to full enterprise-wide production of their SOA.

iWay reported the following:

"BEA chose iWay Software as their adapter supplier because we provide technically superior products, a wider variety of adapters, and more regional and international support than anyone else in the market," says John Senor, president of iWay Software. "Together, iWay Software and BEA can help provide a complete platform for SOA. We create fine-grained services from individual applications, compose them into coarsely grained business services, and incorporate them into Web and portal composite applications, and B2B scenarios, as well as helping to make it easier to deploy integration with BEA's integration broker."

The iWay Adaptive Framework incorporates years of middleware and solutions architecture expertise to provide the foundation of an enterprise's SOA.

Creating Web services and other interfaces to disparate, proprietary information systems is an expensive and complex task that requires significant management attention. It requires skills in multiple programming paradigms, programming languages, application packages, operating systems, databases, and other technologies. The iWay Adaptive Framework is a suite of productivity tools and over 280 packaged adapters that is designed to allow IT to increase its productivity and its ability to make a business more competitive.

"Our customers are looking for a simple and fast standards-based approach to deploying a successful SOA," said Gail Ennis, vice president of Worldwide Alliances for BEA. "By simplifying the integration, deployment, and management of composite applications and services, iWay Software and BEA can help save our customers significant development time and help them get from pilot stage to production with their SOA implementations."