www.bea.com BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with more than 9,400 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500 companies. BEA and its WebLogic® brand are among the most trusted names in e-business. Businesses built on the award-winning BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform™ are reliable, highly scalable, and poised to bring new services to market quickly. BEA's e-business platform is the de facto standard for more than 1,500 systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and application service providers (ASPs) to provide complete solutions that fast-track and future-proof e-businesses for high growth and profitability. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 93 offices in 30 countries. Firium uses BEA's suite of middleware products to implement WebLogic E-Business Platform(tm) to deploy e-business capabilities, from e-commerce and personalisation, with Straight Through Processing facilitated by Enterprise Application Integration via E-Links. This leads to a reduction in the processing time as well as eliminates errors due to manual intervention, thereby leading to reduced operating expenses as well as increased customer satisfaction and recurring business.