BEA's WebLogic Portal wins "Product of the Year" award
BEA WebLogic Integration on high growth track with 25 per cent revenue increase in 2002 third quarter
January 28, 2003
BEA Systems, Inc., the world's leading application infrastructure software company, has begun the new year on a positive note by winning the Product of the Year award for its WebLogic Portal 7.0 and notching up a 25 per cent increase in revenue for the BEA WebLogic Integration for the third quarter of 2002.
BEA Systems, which has been making rapid inroads into the Middle East IT market, was honoured with the Product of the Year award for its WebLogic Portal in the "Enterprise Content & Collaboration Technologies" category, by a panel of analysts, consultants and the editors of Transform Magazine, the leading American IT magazine. The magazine lauded BEA for integrating the WebLogic Portal with its application server and providing a strong foundation for custom application development. In selecting winners, the magazine looked for innovations in technology, outstanding feature-to-cost ratios and proven market success. Among the features singled out by the magazine editors was the open architecture of BEA's WebLogic Portal 7.0 that lets customers work with BEA's integration server or third party tools to invoke business processes through the portals as well as strong security, scalability, fault tolerance and solid portal features.
"The accolade from such a prestigious magazine adds to the growing tally of awards already won by the WebLogic Portal from the industry and media, consolidating BEA's position as a leading portal vendor," said Diyaa Zebian, Business Development Manager Middle East, e-Solutions BEA. "WebLogic is designed to give customers the ability to deliver on their business initiatives at a lower cost, with the flexibility to change as their business dictates. The acceptance of WebLogic by well-known business houses worldwide, is prompting companies in the Middle East to use it for gaining a competitive edge in today's changing business scenario. Two of the premium organizations in the Middle East to adopt BEA's WebLogic Portal are Etisalat and the Saudi American Bank, both of which have incorporated it into their infrastructure to employ business processes through the portals."
Since the debut of BEA WebLogic Portal, the industry and media have recognized BEA as a leading portal vendor. Gartner's Magic Quadrant report on the portal product market positioned BEA in the leader's quadrant for vision and ability to execute, and Forrester Research, Giga Information Group, Current Analysis and AMR Research include BEA WebLogic Portal on their recommended portal software lists. BEA WebLogic Portal also won a 2002 Codie Award for Best Enterprise Portal Solution from the Software & Information Industry Association, a 2002 Reader's Choice Award for the Best Java Enterprise Portal by Java Pro Magazine, and was awarded the 2001 InfoWorld Technology of the Year honor in the portal software category.
The recognition from Transform Magazine, regarded as a leading publication for business and IT managers, has come close on the heels of BEA's announcement that over 60 new customers have adopted the BEA WebLogic Integration in the third quarter of 2002, driving a 25 per cent increase in revenue for the product over the previous quarter. The achievement has underscored the rising market recognition that a standards-based development and integration platform was superior to proprietary and rigid offerings from traditional integration vendors.
"BEA's WebLogic Integration is a comprehensive, unified integration platform to connect users, applications and systems that can reduce the cost and complexity of automating business processes. It simplifies a company's ability to develop and integrate applications in order to customize processes and align them more directly with business goals and has helped a growing number of customers to make business processes more efficient, improve information visibility and bolster application flexibility," said Zebian.
"Emirates Bank International, one of the leading financial institutions in the region, and the flagship organization of the Emirates Bank Group, recently adopted BEA's Weblogic Integration 7.0 as part of the WebLogic Platform 7.0 in order to ensure the seamless integration of the multiple IT systems currently operational at the bank. The Weblogic Integration 7.0 has also enabled EBI to upgrade its banking system to provide a common platform for multiple applications.
"There is an increasingly high demand for BEA Weblogic Portal and Integration in the Middle East as businesses in the region can now migrate to BEA platforms and draw benefits from systems that are now powering world's most ambitious companies to higher efficiency and productivity," he added. "In recent months, BEA has entered into alliance with key regional players to showcase the advantages of BEA products and solutions.
WRITTEN RESULTS OF ENGINEERING SERVICES EXAMINATION, 2002 ANNOUNCED
New Delhi, January 28, 2003
The Union Public Service Commission has announced the results of the written part of the Engineering Services Examination-2002 held from 15th June, 2002. In all 784 candidates including 117 belonging to Scheduled Caste; 56 to Scheduled Tribes; 250 to OBC; and 5 belonging to Physically Disabled have qualified for interview for Personality Test in different disciplines of Engineering. The break-up is as under:
- Civil Engineering 491
- Mechanical Engineering 151
- Electrical Engineering 75
- Electronics & Telecom 67
- Engineering
The candidature of these candidates is provisional.Candidates are advised to intimate change in their addresses, if any, to the UPSC, immediately to facilitate delivery of summon letter to them promptly. In case the summon letters are not received by last week of February, 2003, candidates are required to contact the Commission on Telephone No. 23388418 or on Fax No.011-3387310 or on website address www.upsc.gov.in
ADVANI TO LAUNCH "HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT CAMPAIGN" OF C.P.W.D
New Delhi Jaunuary 28, 2003
Central Public Works Department will launch Healthy Environment Campaign tomorrow as part of Government's endeavour to provide greenery, which can act as a buffer against pollution. Deputy Prime Minister, Shri L.K Advani will lay the foundation stone for the Model Park in Sector-9, R.K. Puram tomorrow to launch the campaign. In continuation of the Government's efforts to provide maximum greenery in Delhi, a scheme for the development of 221 parks in various sectors of R.K. Puram has been evolved. These parks have been graded into three categories depending on the extent of development and availability of unfiltered water. In addition, provision for 4 model parks has been made in addition to the existing three model parks in sectors 5,7,8 of R.K. Puram. Model park will have toe wall and grill around with provision for jogging track alongwith grassing, plantation of trees and shrubs and land scaping. An estimate of Rs.3.14 crore has been prepared for the development of these parks which are expected to provide green coverage to an area of 2,10,000 Sq. Mts.
Development of these parks will require unfiltered water, which at present is not available in adequate quantity in R.K. Puram. A scheme for providing 3 MGD of unfiltered water for horticulture purpose from the treated effluent from Delhi Jal Board, a 5 MGD sewerage treatment plant at Vasant Kunj has been planned. The scheme also provides for giving new connection to JNU Campus and to various parks of Central Government Housing Complex at Vasant Vihar. A project costing Rs.18 crore has been prepared for this purpose.
INDO-ITALIAN EXCHANGE OF FILMS ON LARGE SCALE DISCUSSED ITALIAN CULTURE MINISTER CALLS ON SMT. SWARAJ
New Delhi: 28th January, 2003
The Italian Minister of Culture, Mr. Giuliano Urbani called on the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Smt. Sushma Swaraj here today. The two Ministers discussed cooperation between the two countries in the co-production and exchange of films, exchange of faculty and personnel in film institutes for training and technical know-how, exchange of television programmes, greater participation of India in Venice Film Festival and of Italy in India International Film Festival.
Mr. Giuliano said that Italians had been great admirers of Indian Cinema and there was excellent exchange of films. He said this had been an individual basis and he wanted it to be expanded on a much greater scale and dimension. He said a large network of cinema halls being set up by Italy can be utilised by Indian producers. The Italian Minister is also meeting representatives of Indian Film Industry in Mumbai and discuss the expansion of cooperation at the industry level.
Smt. Sushma Swaraj said Indian expertise in IT might be useful to Italian producers for animation films. The TV programmes, especially from the archives of Doordarshan and the public broadcaster of Italy can be exchanged to make the citizens of both the countries more aware about the culture and art of the two great civilisations. The possibility of arriving at an agreement on co-production of films may also be explored, Smt. Swaraj said.
INDIA IRAN DISCUSS MODALITIES FOR EXECUTION OF S&T AGREEMENT
New Delh January 27, 2003
India and Iran today discussed the modalities for effective implementation of the programmes envisaged in the just concluded agreement on cooperation in Science and Technology. The issue came up at a meeting here between the visiting Iranian Minister for Science, Research and Technology Dr. Mustafa Moin and the Minister for Human Resource Development and Science & Technology Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi. The two leaders describing the agreement as a landmark in Indo-Iranian relations decided to speedily set up the joint committee for smooth implementation of the accord.
Realising the potential of collaboration in biotechnology, Iran expressed keen interest in genetic engineering. Some of its scientists are to be trained in premier bio-tech institutions of India. Dr. Moin also wanted India's help in Information Technology and said that Iran is planning to set up an IT university. Cooperation in Ocean development and earthquake studies also figured during the discussions. Dr. Joshi suggested that the two sides should also take up a joint study of Indo-Iranian history to understand the deep ancient cultural heritage.
The agreement signed between Dr. Moin and Dr. Joshi last Saturday in the presence of President Khatami and Prime Minister Vajpayee envisages cooperation in information and communication technology, industrial technology, food technology, pharmaceutical research, energy, environment, medical and agricultural biotechnology, metallurgy, oil and petrochemicals and alternative sources of energy. The agreement is expected to go a long way in giving a boost to the tardy scientific collaboration between the two nations.
