Accenture Debuts Innovation Center for BEA

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) today announced the opening of the Accenture Innovation Center for BEA located at BEA headquarters in San Jose, Calif. At the center, clients can work with Accenture and BEA teams to create new solutions such as service-oriented architectures and dynamic business applications to enhance organizational performance and flexibility. "We’re launching the center with BEA on the strength of our history of delivering quantifiable results for our shared clients,” said Don Rippert, chief technology officer, Accenture. "By formalizing the work we’ve done with BEA into tangible assets and by providing our clients with first-hand access to these assets, we can give them all the benefits of innovation and ‘speed to market’ with reduced risk.” The Accenture Innovation Center for BEA, headed by Robert Calloway, lead of Accenture’s SOA practice in North America, will provide a collaborative environment for testing conceptual solutions and expanded uses of BEA technology. The center will offer clients access to: Industry-based integration and business process management assets that helped companies like Pacific Gas and Electric Company leverage today’s technology to achieve desired business process improvements such as new revenue opportunities, stronger data integrity and increased process visibility for all in the organization; Accenture and BEA experts who focus on engineering each client’s unique business processes, rather than changing business processes to conform with ERP system templates; and Integrated business process management (BPM) best practices to help reduce clients’ risk, cost and time investments. "Accenture and BEA have had great success developing game-changing solutions together largely because both of our organizations believe in focusing on our clients’ core business first and technology second,” said David Gai, executive vice president, Worldwide Services, BEA Systems. "This center provides a great opportunity for organizations to leverage Accenture’s and BEA’s deep industry and technology expertise in order to maximize their IT investment with demonstrated business results.” Accenture and BEA have together developed 15 industry-focused prototypes, including the Accenture SOA Reference Architecture for the BEA Platform and the Accenture Service Delivery Platform Solution. The former simplifies and accelerates the process of designing applications based on service-oriented architecture, while the latter provides an integration platform for companies in the communications industry. About Accenture Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With approximately 170,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$19.70 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2007. Its home page is www.accenture.com. About BEA BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. Information about how BEA helps customers build a Liquid Enterprise™ that transforms their business can be found at bea.com. Copyright 1995-2007, BEA Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. BEA, BEA AquaLogic, BEA eLink, BEA WebLogic, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic Server, Connectera, Compoze Software, Jolt, JoltBeans, JRockit, SteelThread, Think Liquid, Top End, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA Blended Application Development, BEA Blended Development Model, BEA Blended Strategy, BEA Builder, BEA Guardian, BEA Manager, BEA MessageQ, BEA microService Architecture, BEA SOA 360, BEA Workshop, BEA WorkSpace 360, Signature Editor, Signature Engine, Signature Patterns, Support Patterns, Arch2Arch, Arch2Arch Advisor, Dev2Dev, Dev2Dev Dispatch, Exec2Exec, Exec2Exec Voice, IT2IT, IT2IT Insight, Business LiquidITy, and Liquid Thinker are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA Mission Critical Support, BEA Mission Critical Support Continuum, BEA SOA Self Assessment, and Fluid Framework are service marks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.