BEA Systems Acquires Incomit

By siliconindia staff writer   |   Thursday, 06 January 2005, 20:30 IST
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BANGALORE: BEA Systems, a world leader in application infrastructure software, today announced the acquisition of Incomit, a privately held Swedish company that provides infrastructure software for the telecommunications industry. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Incomit, BEA's fifth acquisition in the past two years, is designed to enhance BEA's substantial leadership in the telco industry by providing key technologies to augment the BEA WebLogic Service Delivery Platform, BEA's telecommunications solution framework. BEA has long been a leader in software for the global telecommunications industry. All of the Global 50 telco operators run portions of their OSS (Operational Support Systems) business on BEA. With BEA WebLogic Service Delivery Platform, the company is now responding to telco customers' demands for broader product offerings to help enable them to create, deliver and manage new converged services for the next-generation telco networks. "BEA's acquisition of Incomit is part of our strategy of helping out telco customers successfully transform their businesses to meet the new demands of the industry," said Olivier Helleboid, executive vice president, corporate strategy and development, BEA Systems. "The telco industry is at several crucial transition points brought on by mergers and acquisitions, increasing competitive pressure, and decreasing voice revenues. To succeed, carriers are transforming their business models to become providers of a variety of data services such as email, calendaring, games, and a wide variety of digital content. The addition of Incomit's technology is important to helping expand the BEA WebLogic Service Delivery Platform and to help give our customers a competitive edge in the emerging telco marketplace." BEA has been a leader in telecommunications software since the company's founding 10 years ago. In 2004, more than 24 percent of BEA's revenues were derived from telecommunications customers. BEA's first telco product ? Tuxedo ? was originally developed at Bell Labs and remains the foundation of many operators' operational and billing systems.