BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 Provides Services
Oriented Architecture to Accelerate Faster Time-to-Value for
Business Integration
WASHINGTON, DC, August 4, 2003 - ICF Consulting today
announced that it is using the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform™
as the foundation for a number of U.S. Department of Defense
(DOD) procurement applications. Today's announcement supports
the general availability of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1™,
an integrated platform that provides superior business integration
through the convergence of application development and integration,
from BEA Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure
software company.
ICF Consulting is responsible for developing and maintaining
virtually all of the application code for the South Carolina-based
DOD E-MALL
team at South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA). E-MALL is
an ongoing project that provides the DOD with one-stop online
shopping. As a part of DOD E-MALL, ICF Consulting has developed
a collection of secure
Web services to transport and validate XML messages between
business processes and transactional workflows. By leveraging
BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1's business process management
(BPM) and B2B trading partner network features, the company
can implement rules such as testing a shopping cart on checkout
for compliance with user-defined business logic and applying
the relevant workflow for completing the purchase.
The combination of ICF Consulting and BEA WebLogic Integration
8.1 has enabled the ICF Consulting team to produce showcase
work for its clients. E2E
Services, another technology initiative to connect existing
government procurement systems directly with commercial suppliers'
existing systems, is in development and will be piloting later
this year. This group
productivity application promises to lower item and internal
costs, shorten lead times and increase supplier responsiveness
by leveraging commercial industry's existing IT investment
on a government system.
"Through our partnership with BEA, ICF Consulting is
able to develop simple, unified, extensible applications for
our clients," said Paul Anninos, Senior Vice President,
Enterprise Solutions and Information
Technology Consulting Services, ICF Consulting. "With
the release of WebLogic Platform 8.1, our systems will be
more service-oriented, allowing us to leverage our clients'
previous IT investments more effectively."
Learn about the launch
of the U.S. Department of Defense's secure, reliable messaging
using BEA WebLogic Integrator.
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ICF International (Nasdaq: ICFI) partners with government and commercial clients to deliver consulting services and technology solutions in the energy, environment, transportation, social programs, defense, and homeland security markets. The firm combines passion for its work with industry expertise and innovative analytics to produce compelling results throughout the entire program life cycle, from analysis and design through implementation and improvement. Since 1969, ICF has been serving government at all levels, major corporations, and multilateral institutions. More than 1,800 employees serve these clients worldwide. ICF’s Web site is http://www.icfi.com.
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Douglas Beck
1.703.934.3820
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