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Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal allows line of business managers to mass-produce and mass-customize portals

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. and SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001--

Joint solution for harnessing the power of BEA WebLogic Portal and

Bowstreet Business Web Factory to increase return on investments

Bowstreet (www.bowstreet.com) and BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news) today announced a new product called the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal, designed to automate the mass production of portal applications across the enterprise. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will enable business users to automate the construction and management of portal applications and cascading portals across a network of employees, partners or customers. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal, available later this year, will work in tandem with BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) 4.0, announced separately today.

The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will let companies create portals in a matter of days, allowing customers to slash maintenance and customization costs, and reap significant returns on their application development investments. In order to scale these portals across the Internet, Bowstreet will leverage the strength of the BEA WebLogic Portal's foundation, administration, personalization and integration services. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will automate these and other services to simplify the development, deployment and multi-team administration of portal applications.

For example, a global automobile manufacturer can use the BEA WebLogic Portal to create a master portal consisting of all the content and services employees, partners and customers will need to access. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal would then allow business managers throughout the company to instruct the master portal to create cascading portals for thousands of dealers or customers in a matter of days. Similarly, these dealers and customers will be able to delegate the creation and mass-customization of sub-portals for their customers.

``The need to create families of web applications and to unify those applications across the enterprise is driving the move to Generation 3 Portals. These new Gen 3 solutions require a robust application architecture and the automated creation and management of cascading portals that provide for complex process integration and full web services support,'' said Gene Phifer, vice president and research director, Gartner, Inc.

Built on the same patent-pending, parametric-automation technology found in Bowstreet's Business Web Factory, the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will be comprised of a set of wizards and tools, as well as a run-time component for mass-producing and mass-customizing portal applications. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will act as a ``portal factory'' to create unique, just-in-time composite web applications based on individual, varying business scenarios or market needs.

With the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal solution:

Non-technical business managers will be able to create, manage and customize families of portals. They can accomplish this through a simple point-and-click wizard, helping companies save on development time and resources.
Companies will be able to distribute, manage, aggregate and syndicate portals across departments, and partners' and customers' web sites.
Companies will be able to automate the creation of new portals based on the user's context - the device, the user class, access rights and more.
Information technology professionals will be able to reduce the time and effort required to add functionality, support new variations, and manage changes across deployed cascading portal applications.
``The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will allow customers to create thousands of portal applications, constantly change or update them, and cascade those portals to networks of employees, partners or customers,'' said Pat O'Haren, senior director of marketing, BEA Application Components Division. ``BEA WebLogic Portal provides the underlying portal foundation, personalization, integration and e-business infrastructure software so families of portals can scale across the web.''

``We view BEA WebLogic Portal as an extremely powerful platform upon which portal applications can run,'' said Rose O'Donnell, vice president of engineering, Bowstreet. ``We can augment BEA's solution with automation, mass-production and mass-customization of portals, enabling modifications as business conditions change in only days versus weeks or months.''

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news) is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with more than 11,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® brand are among the most trusted names in e-business. Businesses built on the award-winning BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM) are reliable, highly scalable, and poised to bring new services to market quickly. BEA's e-business platform is the de facto standard for more than 2,100 systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and application service providers (ASPs) to provide complete solutions that fast-track and future-proof e-businesses for high growth and profitability. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 93 offices in 34 countries and is on the web at www.bea.com.

About Bowstreet

Bowstreet, a recognized leader in web services, enables businesses to form dynamic, distributed networks called ``business webs'' that leverage the strengths of the entire value chain while providing rich, streamlined web experiences for employees, partners and customers. The Bowstreet(TM) Business Web Factory automates the creation, assembly and maintenance of families of composite web applications, dramatically increasing programmer productivity. Available options harness the power of the Business Web Factory with leading application, portal and integration platforms. More information may be found at www.bowstreet.com or by calling 603-559-1900.

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding the implementation, benefits and details of the relationship between BEA and Bowstreet; the availability, features and benefits of BEA's and Bowstreet's products, particularly the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal; and the expected availability later this year of the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the ongoing development and functionality of BEA's and Bowstreet's products, particularly the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal; changes in the marketplace for enterprise-wide software solutions, portal applications and tools and management solutions therefore, including the introduction of products and technologies that compete with BEA's and Bowstreet's products; and any software errors in BEA's or Bowstreet's products. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2001 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed thereafter from time-to-time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.

Bowstreet is a trademark of Bowstreet, Inc.

BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic Personalization Server, BEA Portal Framework, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA Campaign Manager for WebLogic, BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, and How Business Becomes E-Business are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc.

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