BEA AquaLogic BPM suite offers a set of business process management (BPM) tools. It combines workflow and process technology with enterprise application integration functionality. The suite consists of tools aimed for line of business personnel for creating business process models (AquaLogic BPM Designer), as well as tools for IT personnel to create actual business process applications directly from said models (AquaLogic BPM Studio). The completed business process applications are deployed on a production server (AquaLogic BPM Enterprise Server), from which they integrate to backend applications and generate portal views for human interactions in the process. It also comes with a customizable tools for live business activity monitoring (BAM).
BEA AquaLogic User Interaction is a set of tools used to create portals, collaborative communities, composite applications, and other applications that use service architecture. These technologies work cross-platform.
BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository, a vital element of effective Service-oriented architecture life-cycle governance, manages the metadata for any type of software asset, from business processes and Web Services to patterns, frameworks, applications, and components. It maps the relationships and interdependencies that connect these assets to improve impact analysis, promote and systematize software reuse, and measure the impact on the bottom line.
BEA AquaLogic Service Bus (subsequently known as Oracle Service Bus), an enterprise service bus (ESB), has operational service-management. It allows the interaction between services, routing relationships, transformations, and policies.
BEA AquaLogic Service Registry is a UDDI v3 registry with an embedded governance framework. It provides a repository where services can be registered and reused for developing or modifying applications.
BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform (previously known as Liquid Data) provides tools for creating and managing different data services. It uses the XQuery language for data composition and transformation for a variety of data sources, including relational databases and web services.
BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security consists of a security-infrastructure application for distributed authentication, fine-grained entitlements and other security services. Features include allowing users to define access rules for applications without modifying the software itself, including JSP pages, EJBs and portlets.
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