BEA Delivers Web 2.0 Enteprise Tools

BEA today unveiled three products aimed at helping IT create and deliver enterprise-scale Web 2.0 and social-computing applications behind the corporate firewall.

The three products--BEA AquaLogic Pages, BEA AquaLogic Ensemble and BEA AquaLogic Pathways--let companies produce social applications while giving IT full control to manage end-user participation and access to corporate data, BEA said.

Social computing and Web 2.0 is all the rage these days, but enterprises must weigh the value of increased interaction against the need to secure enterprise data and applications.BEA's AquaLogic Ensemble (formerly called Project Runner) is infrastructure software for developers and IT operations that lets them make and manage enterprise mash-up applications. Mash-ups take data from various sources, both public and behind-the-firewall, and bring them together to create new applications.

AquaLogic Pages (formerly Project Builder) is designed to let end users access and expose enterprise data and create simple Web applications for day-to-day business use.

AquaLogic Pathways (formerly Project Graffiti) is a collaboration tool that combines social book-marking and tagging with search and activity analytics. It is designed to help users within an enterprise discover relevant information--and to help others discover it as well.

In addition to the new development applications, BEA has launched a new resource for the Web 2.0-enabled enterprise at http://en.terpri.se.