San Jose, California, 19 Oct 2007
Core News Facts
1. Sabre Holdings, a world leader in the travel marketplace, uses BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository 3.0 to serve as a central repository for governing, managing and distributing Sabre Web Services, as well as components, frameworks, models and other software assets.
2. BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository has enabled Sabre to speed customer adoption, analyse market trends to optimise product delivery and continue meeting customer needs.
BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced that Sabre Holdings, a global leader in travel services, relies on BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository 3.0 to govern Sabre Web Services, which manages 36 million daily transactions for air, car, hotel and other travel accommodations.
Sabre provides travel and transportation information to more than 50 000 travel agencies, major travel suppliers, Fortune 500 companies and travel Web sites around the globe.
Sabre deployed BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository as its central repository for managing, governing and distributing Sabre Web Services to its worldwide network of travel customers. In addition, BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository is helping Sabre manage its entire inventory of internal services, components, frameworks and other software assets.
"BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository has helped us promote and govern our SOA assets and understand where and what services are being used. This enables us to analyse market trends to optimise product delivery and continue meeting our customers` needs," said Bob Prevenslik, director of Web Services at Sabre Holdings. "As we take Sabre Web Services and SOA to the next level, we are continuing to grow governance along with it and see BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository as a critical enabler to success."
BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository has enabled the quick and dramatic customer adoption of Sabre Web Services - the largest Web services network today. As Sabre migrates to its next-generation SOA, it will rely on BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository as a standard component of its enterprise SOA governance model to enforce architecture, re-use, policy and life cycle control.
"Sabre continues to innovate and leverage SOA to drive greater efficiencies in their business. Importantly, they understand that by instituting good governance practices and technology, they can optimise their SOA investment for business benefits," said Paul Patrick, vice-president and chief architect of BEA Systems.
"We`re very pleased to continue to partner with Sabre by providing them with our leading governance technology and by supporting the evolution of their SOA projects."
BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository has enabled Sabre to:
* Accelerate adoption of Sabre Web Services offerings;
* Track usage of services and assets to determine value;
* Use flexible categorisations to organise services according to the Open Travel Alliance (OTA) standards;
* Make Sabre Web Services the single point of access to Sabre for application developers;
* View robust information and metadata about each service and asset, including descriptions, Web service definition language, schemas, design documents, sample payloads, service use pattern documents and more; and
* Allow customers and internal teams to use the Developer Resource Center to browse, learn about, select and re-use Sabre Web Services.
For more information about BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository and the BEA SOA governance solution, please visit http://www.bea.com/soa-governance.
To hear directly from Sabre Holdings` Bob Prevenslik about how BEA AquaLogic Repository has enabled Sabre to quickly deliver Web services to their customers, please tune in to Radio BEA at http://www.bea.com/customers/podcasts.
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