The Hindu Business Line : BEA Systems bullish on India, Asia-Pacific market

The Vice-President, Asia Pacific, BEA Systems, Mr Steve Faris, told Business Line "For BEA, the domestic market has grown in double digits. As India has emerged as a major outsourced service provider, large multinational corporations are beginning to see India as a base. Over 50 such large clients are in India and this number is set to grow," he explained.

Highlighting the strategy vision code-named Sierra, Mr Faris said this approach sought to redefine the economics of information technology. It would be delivered through a series of new product announcements and partnership initiatives, including the possibility of expanding the Indian operations.

"With Web services, organisations have found an avenue to enable piecemeal integration thanks to some degree of basic standardisation. These Web services are providing a momentum to service-oriented architecture which BEA has taken up."

"This means a collection of software services available to other applications across the network and accessible using a standard interface. This helps in faster deployment and higher return on investments," Mr Faris explained.

BEA has over 15,000 blue chip customers and over 2100 systems integrators.

As per Gartner estimates on service-oriented architecture, by 2007 over 75 per cent of all applications software infrastructure licences will be sold by application platform suite vendors. Significantly, Indian vendors will have the opportunity to benefit from this approach both in terms of application development and long-term maintenance work.