BEA, CA partner for IAM

Mumbai

March 8, 2007

BEA Systems has partnered with Computer Associates (CA) to integrate its
AquaLogic and WebLogic product families with the latter's identity and access
management (IAM) technology, specifically SiteMinder and CA Identity Manager.
The two companies will validate the existing integrations and collaborate to
extend the integrations for their joint customers.

CA has chosen BEA's award-winning WebLogic Server as the application server
for CA's IAM technology where it plans to make additional investment to extend
current integration between the product lines to drive improved performance. The
two companies have partnered to streamline and simplify IAM across the
enterprise - jointly helping customers reduce IT costs and improve performance
by combining Web single sign-on, user management and SOA Infrastructure.

"Identity and access management is critical within SOA as applications
become increasingly distributed," said Wai Wong, Executive VP-Products at
BEA Systems. "CA and BEA together can enable customers to benefit from
reduced administration costs of their security architectures, as well as provide
increased IT efficiency and better business agility through their application
and SOA infrastructure."

Both companies plan to hold interoperability testing and validations that can
provide customers with improved performance and reliability. BEA and CA are
focusing investment in engineering and development, distribution as well as
marketing programs.

"With the ongoing trend of abstracting identity and security logic from
the underlying applications, integration between CA's IAM solution and BEA's
application infrastructure will offer customers the flexibility and control they
need to deliver a new generation of value-added services across the extended
enterprise," said Bilhar Mann, Senior VP and GM of CA's security management
business unit.