NYU Medical Center Selects BEA & Bluenog for next generation Portal initiatives

SAN JOSE, CA - April 16, 2007 - BEA today announced that New York University Medical Center has selected BEA WebLogic Portal as the foundation for an enterprise-wide portal that is designed to support hospital operations, medical research and patient service.

New York University Medical Center, among the most prestigious healthcare providers and research institutions in the world, is implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) powered by BEA WebLogic Server® as the underpinning for the new portal, which is expected to support approximately 15,000 users. The SOA strategy being employed is designed to help unify dozens of disparate applications, business processes and data sources used by more than 30 distinct entities that comprise of the New York University Medical Center. Among the functionality planned for the portal are delivery of lab results, appointment scheduling, bill payment, prescription management and research collaboration and management.

“We’re going to make day-to-day operations more orderly and efficient,” said Michael Mainiero, director of Web services at New York University Medical Center. “With thousands of patients, a staff that includes faculty members and medical students, and world-renowned researchers working in dozens of medical disciplines, we’re anxious to streamline the way we communicate, share information and deliver medical care. We feel that unifying our infrastructure under an SOA umbrella and delivering applications via standardized portals is the best way to achieve those goals and help eliminate the data silos that can hinder progress.”

The medical center’s IT team evaluated a number of technology platforms for its SOA deployment and portal. The selection of BEA was based on several factors, including BEA’s SOA vision and proven product set, use of open standards, support for the open-source tools and systems that the medical center is using, and the added value that BEA’s ecosystem of partners, such as Bluenog, brings to BEA’s products.

“We are excited to see BEA release new features in WebLogic Portal 10,” said Mainiero. “BEA’s proven track record, acknowledged industry leadership and innovation can help protect our investment and is designed to give us the freedom to adopt new technologies and applications without integration headaches or performance issues.”

One particularly valuable aspect of BEA WebLogic Portal is its robust implementation of the WSRP standard (Web Services for Remote Portlets). This is designed to allow the medical center to federate multiple portlets from a number of systems within one user interface that appears as a single portal. The user interface can be tailored to the requirements of each audience (e.g., patients, researchers and doctors) with appropriate portlets exposed to each audience.

BEA partner Bluenog is leading the overall implementation effort for the medical center. Bluenog’s expertise in SOA and its experience with BEA WebLogic Portal made it a logical choice to help build and deploy the solution.