Alliance Overview

Why Should Your Business Choose a Sun/BEA Solution?

• Solution Flexibility - The combined solutions from Sun and BEA are open and scalable. Standards help to ensure that the applications developed in-house will connect to external systems, such as those at a customer or supplier site. Standards are also a key element in managing future uncertainty and ensuring a longer life-cycle.


• Interoperability - The integration effort required to get e-business solution technologies to work together is not trivial. It takes time and a broad technical base to do it right. We know, because we've done it. And we know what infrastructure is needed to enable interoperability, and how to tune the design for best results.


• Profitability - Sun and BEA expertise allow you to focus on your business. For many businesses today, e-business solutions have become a key enabler of competitive advantage. With faster delivery of the right information to the right place at the right time, a business can improve revenue and profits by increasing inventory turns, driving new economies of scale, and quickly capturing new opportunities.


• 24x7 Operations - Sun and BEA deliver industry-leading reliability, performance, and scalability. Because the e-business solution is a global, mission-critical communications tool for an organization, reliability is a major concern. We understand that e-business can't be thought of as an isolated, stand-alone application separate from the rest of your business. The same standards you apply to existing business systems need to be applied to all new applications as well.

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How does the BEA/Sun Alliance provide these benefits?

Not only do Sun and BEA provide industry-leading products, our collaboration also brings value that's difficult to obtain anywhere else. By collaborating on solutions and programs that enable customers to innovate, we provide a way to help ensure that implementation and on-going operations are successful through our shared commitment to the following key principles:

• Experience
  The combined experience and capabilities of Sun and BEA enable us to help you transform your business. With a long history in open systems and Internet technologies, Sun and BEA have provided standards-based technology innovation, network-centric computing, and stable reliable solutions from the start.

  Sun is a worldwide provider of products, services and support solutions for building and maintaining network-computing environments:

  • According to IDC, Sun is the top server manufacturer in the U.S.
  • D.H. Brown Associates, Inc. ranks the Solaris 8 Operating Environment as the #1 UNIX-{R} Operating Environment.
  • After more than two decades of network computing, Sun has the experience with the foundation technologies and solutions needed to move quickly and successfully in deploying e-business solutions.

  The BEA WebLogic� E-Business Platform is a proven application infrastructure solution built on open standards and the world's #1 application server - BEA WebLogic Server.

  • BEA WebLogic Server -the cornerstone of BEA's e-business software platform - is the #1 Java application server according to Giga, IDC and Gartner Group.
  • With more than 11,800 customers, BEA WebLogic Server has become the preferred application server for 80 percent of Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies.
  • Customers select the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform - not only because of its proven reliability, performance, scalability, and advanced implementation of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE{tm}) standards, but also because it's supported by more than 2100 SIs, ISVs, and ASPs.

• Vision
  Sun was founded with one driving vision - a vision of computer interoperability and an open infrastructure framework. While others protect proprietary, stand-alone architectures, Sun has focused on taking companies into the network age by providing systems and software with the scalability and reliability needed to drive the electronic marketplace. This vision is embodied in the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) architecture which provides the framework, platform, and expertise for building and deploying Services on Demand.

  Using the framework's plug-and-play capability, a business can add new applications and services over time without re-architecting its underlying IT infrastructure. Meanwhile, the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform provides a unifying application infrastructure that underlies an enterprise's computing environment. This simplifies the flow of information and decreases the costs of managing applications, making the enterprise more agile and productive. The open, standards-based framework drives Sun and BEA's e-business solution, allowing businesses to protect their initial investment in development, testing, and production capacity.

• Infrastructure and Resources
  Sun and BEA's collaboration enables you to access and realize our combined vision. Through BEA's participation in Sun's key infrastructure programs and initiatives, we can help you quickly implement new technologies, while realizing true, best-of-breed flexibility.

  Key infrastructure programs include:

  • Account Team Alignment: Sun and BEA's sales and support teams work together so you don't have to be the middleman. The full range of resources from Sun and BEA are ready to support your efforts, providing aligned account teams, joint solutions engineering, iForce center integration, and professional and enterprise services for consulting, field support, and education.

  • Tuning and Optimization: Sun's engineering team tunes and optimizes BEA's products on Solaris Operating Environment for optimal speed and performance. In addition, extensive research and testing in our labs have resulted in sizing guides that ensure the optimal software and hardware configuration for your company's specific requirements.

  • Sun and BEA Services: Our service experts can serve as lead consultative partners on your e-business solutions, or in support of a customer-selected lead integrator. We maintain cooperative relationships with all major e-business systems integrators. And our architectural approach is unique because it integrates the three key areas that are critical to building a solid IT infrastructure - logical topology, technology layers, and system capabilities.

  • Sun and BEA Solution Sets: We've pioneered the concept of solution sets to help you implement new technology faster. A solution set is a specific combination of hardware and software that has been integrated and tuned to deliver a complete business solution. With this program, Sun and BEA products are pre-configured and tested to work together to meet specific requirements. These solution sets enable you to leverage our capabilities and ensure that the packages you choose can be effortlessly integrated into an efficient solution while growing your business.

  • BEA WebLogic Server and Tuxedo are SunTone Certified: The SunTone program underscores Sun's long-standing leadership in service provider architecture and market share. Sun established the SunTone Certification and Branding Program to provide customers of Web-based services and applications with a way to identify suppliers meeting defined high standards for providing quality service over the Internet. SunTone certification exposes members and Sun to the leading, real-world architectural techniques that enable network service availability to anyone, anywhere, anytime, on any device.

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Realize Critical Values: Sun and BEA Synergy

Sun and BEA are infrastructure experts who know what it takes to fully realize the potential of e-business solutions. We are working together to deliver an industry standard, e-business platform leveraging our combined vision, experience, resources and solutions.

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