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BEA and Enterpulse Roll Out Total Management Solution for State and Local Governments
Portal Solution in Use with City of Chicago, Being Demonstrated at HP World
Atlanta, GA (August 12, 2003) - Answering state and local government's need for greater visibility into operations and a more efficient way to share information, BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, and Internet consulting firm Enterpulse today announced a joint portal solution called the Total Management Solution. The tailored portal solution, which includes HP technology and is already in use by the City of Chicago, will be demonstrated in BEA's booth (#609) at HP World 2003 this week in Atlanta.
The Total Management Solution is designed to help state and local governments manage capital projects and increase visibility into city operations, while complementary portal solutions delivered by Enterpulse can make city services more accessible and convenient for citizens and can enable citizens to easily search and find public information. State and local governments, such as the City of Chicago, can gain the ability to quickly integrate data from multiple, existing systems, creating a holistic view of projects underway and a controlled mechanism for sharing information.
The Total Management Solution includes leading technologies from BEA and HP along with the Enterpulse Portal Framework. This solution is designed to deliver a 360-degree view of information, packaging easy-to-use alert and business rule management, and document and content management tools into a single solution. The resulting portal can broaden access to personalized information, based on user requirements, to foster higher adoption, reduce maintenance costs and lower the total cost of ownership.
"The Total Management Solution can deliver the best return of information technology investment to government organizations by leveraging HP ProLiant servers and StorageWorks, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform and Enterpulse's design and implementation expertise," said Rick Jackson, vice president of product and solutions marketing, BEA Systems. "The combined value of HP and BEA technology working together seamlessly in Enterpulse's proven Total Management Solution can clearly be seen in the City of Chicago's success."
As a part of new government initiatives, Chicago's Public Building Commission (PBC) — an independent agency responsible for constructing, renovating and financing public facilities — employs the Total Management Solution to integrate information pertaining to project management, procurement and accounting of vast construction projects that for years was trapped within four disparate systems and databases. The Total Management Solution presents an easy-to-use and effective solution that has given the PBC and the City better insights into projects and allowed the City to offer residents better access to information.
"Our ability to see all information in the system became essential to our managing more than 250 active public construction projects and the nearly $2 billion in funding annually associated with these projects. Gathering information before was a time-consuming process that yielded lengthy reporting and reconciliation processes," explained Ben Campney, the Public Building Commission's IT director.
In June, the City of Chicago launched its first Web service linking online bill payment and permit centers to simplify the filing of applications, receipt of payments and the securing of building permits for city residents — at the same time reducing associated costs for the city. This Web service was up-and-running in only eight weeks.
"State and local governments are faced with IT and operational challenges that start with but do not end with tight budgets and disparate systems. The Total Management Solution has been designed to address common, underlying requirements while presenting a flexible portal solution that delivers added functionality as it is needed and with minimal effort," added Sam Jankovich, president of Enterpulse.
Key to the PBC and the City of Chicago's decision to implement the Total Management Solution was the combined industry leadership and adherence to open standards of BEA, Enterpulse and HP. This adherence to standards helped reduce the risk involved, maximize the openness and flexibility of the portal solution, and speed the deployment.
The Enterpulse Portal Framework is built on BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform™, a unified, simplified and extensible application infrastructure platform designed to enable organizations to evolve their application infrastructure software on a project-by-project basis. BEA's platform integrates the industry-leading application server, BEA WebLogic Server™; an industry-leading enterprise portal, BEA WebLogic Portal™; a proven integration solution, BEA WebLogic Integration™; an innovative information integration technology, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic™; and a visual development framework, BEA WebLogic Workshop™. The entire software platform runs on HP ProLiant servers, the world's leading industry-standard servers.
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About EnterpulseEnterpulse is a services company focused on developing enterprise portal, content management and services infrastructure solutions for our Fortune 1000 and public sector clients. Our products and services model is centered around bringing to market the next generation of software: composite applications. With our long history in delivering enterprise portal and content management solutions, we continue to focus on portal as the optimum delivery vehicle for composite applications-based on Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) standards.
Headquartered in Atlanta, with offices in New Jersey and Dallas, Enterpulse has been delivering audience-focused Web solutions for clients since 1996.
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For more information, contact
Patrick O'Rourke, BEA Systems, Inc.
408.570.8256
patrick.orourke@bea.com
http://www.enterpulse.com/
Holly Clifford, Hope-Beckham, Inc. for Enterpulse
408.570.8256
hclifford@hopebeckham.com
http://www.enterpulse.com/
