What Customers and Partners Are Saying

"As with Siebel before, Oracle has acquired a company which is a key partner and supplier of technology to P&G. We look forward to the seamlessly integrated suite of solutions that we believe BEA and Oracle together can bring. Our interest is in seeing a smooth transition that will unleash the benefits fast and enable us to grow in partnership."
Filippo Passerini
President of Global Business Services and Chief Information Officer, Procter & Gamble

"USi and our customers have significant investments in both WebLogic and Fusion Middleware. For example, we have had great success using Oracle SOA Suite to automate and streamline key processes in our hosting operations. In addition, both USi and our PeopleSoft customers use WebLogic to support back office Financial and HCM solutions. Based on these existing investments we are delighted to learn that both Oracle BPEL Process Manager and WebLogic Server are strategic components of Oracle's middleware offering going forward. We are optimistic about Oracle's acquisition of BEA and confident this will further strengthen Oracle's already very competitive middleware offering."
Mike Rulf
Vice President of Advanced Engineering, USi, an AT&T company

"Leveraging AquaLogic Service Bus and Governance, Farmers Insurance has built an industry-leading Service-Oriented Architecture that offers shared IT services to our business. From Oracle, we are using Siebel CRM applications. We are delighted to learn that AquaLogic Service Bus and Governance will be strategic elements of Oracle's new middleware offering and we will be evaluating what additional value we can derive from Oracle's middleware components such as Oracle BPEL Process Manager or Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). We are also looking forward to synergies from having both our Siebel CRM applications as well as our middleware technology offered from one vendor."
Goutham Nellutla
Head of Shared Services, Farmers Insurance Group

"Ingersoll Rand uses multiple pieces of Oracle Fusion Middleware, including Oracle Identity Management Suite and Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. By combining the best of the Oracle SOA Suite and the BEA middleware software, Oracle will take its already very competitive Oracle Fusion Middleware to the next level, and deliver a truly world class integration platform."
Barry Libenson
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited

"We are successfully using Oracle SOA Suite today and have selected Oracle BPA Suite and Oracle WebCenter. We consider Oracle's product offering in the SOA Suite as highly competitive and are pleased that our investment in BPEL Process Manager, Oracle BPA Suite and Oracle WebCenter aligns with Oracle's product roadmap going forward. Technologies from BEA such as AquaLogic Service Bus and AquaLogic Enterprise Repository have the potential of adding value to Oracle's middleware offering."
Mark Tonnesen
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Logitech

"First Horizon has improved strategic processes in our loan organizations and servicing operations with BEA's business process management platform and integration solutions together with Oracle Database. We needed a scalable and protected technology platform positioned to support efficient growth expansion, and view the combination of BEA and Oracle offerings as an enhancement to our business value, and stakeholder's confidence."
Robert Salazar
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Technology, First Horizon

"We are a long-time business partner of both BEA and Oracle. First American's WSP (Web Services Platform) SOA initiative is built on key BEA technologies such as WebLogic Server and AquaLogic Service Bus. We are excited to see our choice of middleware technology reflected as strategic components in Oracle's middleware offering. Oracle is a leader in Grid technology and understands that high availability and scalability are important to us. Any enterprise looking for a best-in-class middleware stack now has got to consider Oracle as a front-runner."
Evan Jafa
Corporate Chief Technology Officer, The First American Corporation

"At Kabel Deutschland we are making use of Oracle SOA Suite together with BEA technologies such as WebLogic Server and Tuxedo today. On its own, Oracle SOA Suite is already a very competitive offering. Together with BEA, Oracle will further raise the bar in terms of technology stack completeness and excellence."
Christian Kaehlig
Head of Architecture, Kabel Deutschland

"Tuxedo, together with Oracle's Utilities Customer Care and Billing solution, was instrumental to modernizing our mainframe-based Customer Information System several years ago. Recently, PG&E's SmartMeter initiative, one of America's largest advanced metering initiatives, and an important initiative to efficiently monitor and reduce energy consumption in California, leverages BEA's Service-Oriented-Architecture and Integration solutions together with Oracle's latest Real Application Clusters (RAC) Database technology. We are looking forward to possible synergies the Oracle/BEA merger could provide."
Eugene Park
Application Services Senior Director, ISTS, PG&E

"BAE Systems Australia is delighted to see the strengthening of Oracle's Middleware offerings through its acquisition of BEA. We've been successfully leveraging Oracle's Fusion Middleware including SOA and Identity Management Suites and are confident that the complementary product and service offerings now available through Oracle will serve us well in continuing to develop world class IS solutions for the benefit of our organisation and our customer."
Mike Guerin
Manager Business Systems, BAE Systems Australia

"Over the past couple of years, we have successfully implemented Oracle BAM, Oracle BPEL and Oracle Content Management, and now we are going live with Oracle IDM and Oracle SOA Suite, all components of the Oracle Fusion Middleware offering. As big users of BEA WebLogic Server and Portal, we look forward to integration of Oracle Fusion Middleware and BEA products, merging the best of both."
Job Simon
Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Services, NetApp

"Our SOA framework is built on best-of-breed solutions. We implemented the Oracle BPEL Process Manager from Oracle's SOA Suite for process orchestration and deployed it on BEA's WebLogic Server. We are delighted that both products will be strategic components of Oracle's middleware offering going forward. Oracle's acquisition of BEA will clearly raise the bar in the middleware space."
Michael Vaughan
Manager, BPM Development & Delivery, TIAA-CREF

"INDRA has existing relationships with both BEA and Oracle and we are optimistic that the combination of BEA and Oracle will provide us with the continued commitment to the technology that has allowed us to be responsive to the needs of our customers."
Valentín Reviriego
Director of IT Strategy and Quality, INDRA

"The business combination of Oracle and BEA will help CRIS by providing ease from a Global support perspective and simplifying the communication and problem resolution."
Karn Kumar
Chief Systems Manager, CRIS (Indian Railways)

"Oracle and BEA coming together takes some of the work we've been doing off our hands. Using a single vendor globally to support the software we use to run our enterprise has been our goal for years; this combination will bring us that much closer to meeting it."
Rob Ewing
Vice President, Systems Development, InterCall

"Habitat sees the fusion of Oracle and BEA as a great step in the future development of SOA, due to it representing the integration of innovation, solidity and maturity of multiple products that are the best of their kind."
Sergio Solari Angelo
Operations and IT Director, Habitat

"The combined companies will be in a better competitive position, and that added stability means I can plan more confidently for the longer term. Now I know I can count on Oracle to support and integrate our mission-critical application infrastructure."
Kay-Man Chan
Senior Business System Manager, WebEx Communications

"We are excited to see two of our vital technology partners combining into a single, consolidated team. We have enjoyed a terrific relationship with Oracle for many years and we look forward to a continuation of the great customer service, commitment to excellence, and innovation we have experienced with the Oracle team."
Kevin Smith
Chief Operating Officer, Intermountain Healthcare

"As a long time Oracle and BEA customer, we have realized significant value in employing innovative products from both companies, and are looking forward to seeing an integrated suite that leverages the strengths of both company's existing product lines."
Paul Citarella
Director, Enterprise Architecture, Synapse Group, Inc.

"We believe this acquisition can infuse Oracle solutions and BEA solutions with greater innovation. We will expect to gain extended value from open-standards technology developments, access to integrated Oracle products across the enterprise, and increased investment protection overall."
David Ernst
Chief Information Officer and Assistant Vice Chancellor, California State University

"We see the acquisition as good news for us. We expect BEA and Oracle to deliver a complete and open middleware portfolio, resulting in deeper functionality, easier interoperability, and lower costs."
Perry Cozzone
Chief Information Officer, Colorcon

"The Healthcare industry demands speed and quality of collaboration and data integration. Our BEA collaboration platform and Oracle Fusion Middleware environment provides Novartis an important foundation on which we see opportunity to innovate and drive our business successfully in the future."
Rob James
Chief Information Officer, Novartis Pharma AG

"At London Stock Exchange, we recently selected Oracle Fusion Middleware. Everything we learned so far about Oracle's plans regarding the acquisition of BEA, and its benefits to customers like us, sounds very positive."
Darren McHattie
Chief Architect, London Stock Exchange

"Schneider National has standardized on Oracle Fusion Middleware, including Oracle SOA Suite, as part of our enterprise-wide technology transformation initiative. We are optimistic about Oracle's acquisition of BEA as this will further strengthen Oracle's already competitive middleware offering." "
Dan Goerdt
Director, Foundation Architecture and Services, Schneider National Inc.

"As a leader in SOA implementation, Accenture has had extensive experience and success with both the Oracle and BEA middleware products. Recently, a team of Accenture technology experts assessed how a convergence of the products under one strategy would best benefit our clients. We are pleased that Oracle's Fusion Middleware road map, which outlines the planned product convergence, is consistent with the recommendations identified by the Accenture team. What's more, the convergence of the two products into one strategy will increase the momentum of the solutions we develop at the Accenture Innovation Centers for Oracle, and provide a strong SOA platform for our clients."
Paul Daugherty
Chief Technology Architect, Accenture

"The Oracle Fusion Middleware strategy provides a powerful and comprehensive middleware platform for the higher education industry. Blackboard's customers will greatly benefit from the world-class learning management solutions built on the combined Oracle and BEA platform which is standards-based, secure and highly scalable."
John Fontaine
Senior Director Technology Evangelism, Blackboard

"With the integration of BEA products into Oracle's middleware portfolio Oracle has further strengthened its position as an industry leading middleware provider. With insight into a clearly defined product roadmap based on industry leading design principles and best-in-class technologies, we are confident our customers will benefit greatly from the new strategy. EDS looks forward to exploring new and creative business solutions leveraging Oracle's enhanced middleware platform and to delivering measurable business value to our respective customers."
Charlie Feld
Senior Executive Vice President, EDS

"Oracle is the industry leading middleware provider and deserves credit for how quickly it has integrated BEA products into its middleware portfolio. With insight into a clearly defined product roadmap based on industry leading design principles and best-in-class technologies, we are confident our customers will benefit greatly from the new strategy. We can now spend more time on our client's businesses, helping them maximize the value of their Oracle based EnterConnect solutions both today and tomorrow."
Sam Jankovich
Chief Executive Officer, EnterConnect

"We have strong relationships with Oracle and BEA, and the synergies between the companies' products and architectures make the integration a winning proposition for our customers. With a clear view into Oracle's middleware strategy, we can deliver near-term value and continuity to our clients, while shifting the conversation from the enabling technologies to the business value they deliver."
Sriram Papani
Senior Vice President and Head of Oracle Practice, Satyam

"The combination of Oracle and BEA further strengthens the Oracle Fusion Middleware strategy and better enables Servigistics to deliver its Strategic Service Management solutions to companies across diverse industries that are investing in post-sales service as a source of profit, competitive differentiation and customer intimacy, demonstrating the power of service as a growth driver."
Lee Smith
Executive Vice President Worldwide Operations, Servigistics

"As two of our largest partners currently, the combination of Oracle and BEA will only serve to strengthen our relationship with Oracle. In many ways, this combination will streamline our relationship and provide efficiencies in how we go to market together."
Richard McCormack
Senior Vice President of Marketing, Fujitsu Computer Systems

"The combination of Oracle and BEA will meet customer needs. This is also the basis of our Dynamic Data Center strategy, based on service-oriented architectures (SoAs), ensuring the flexible integration framework for new applications and business processes. It's all about doing more with less — more efficiency and more flexibility with fewer costs."
Dr. Bernd Kosch
Vice President Alliances, Fujitsu Siemens Computers

"The combination of Oracle & BEA allows us to spend less time on integrating common competing products in our customers' environments, and more time helping customers leverage technology for competitive business advantage."
Rolf Scheuch
OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH

"Working with customers who use both BEA and Oracle today, this combination makes sense, and can increase the value they gain overall. It represents the best of all worlds. Enterprise software based on an open-standards and SOA architecture. Seamless integration and interoperability for customers."
Ari Kaplan
President Emeritus, Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG)

"Bringing BEA into the Oracle family should only increase the value to users and the user community, especially in Oracle's growing Fusion Middleware operations. It gives my company several options from one vendor where the integration to my ERP system is already done, saving both time and money."
Steve McDowell
President, Quest International

"Oracle has proven with its other acquisitions that they are dedicated to customer satisfaction and protecting and enhancing customer investments. We expect the same with its acquisition of BEA."
John Matelski
Chair, International Oracle Users Council

"By being an active participant in BEA's user group community we have enhanced the return on investment on our BEA solutions. Oracle's acquisition of BEA should offer an expanded wealth of resources and unique networking opportunities, which will only increase our investment and productivity."
Evelyn D. Schichner
User Group Leader, Northeast BEA AquaLogic Products

"We appreciate the effort Oracle has been making to transition our user groups from BEA into the Oracle umbrella, particularly the effort to understand how we previously networked and communicated, as well as how we can utilize the new resources provided by Oracle. I look forward to the continued collaboration as we progress through this transitional phase."
Jennifer Setto
User Group Leader, BEA AquaLogic Education User Group