Typically, companies use packaged applications to automate internal operations, such as financial, manufacturing, human resources, etc. While they successfully address the needs of these specific areas, these proprietary platforms do not work together. To compete today, you need a much greater exchange of information. Systems need to communicate at both a database and a process level, within your own organization as well as with customer's and supplier's systems. BEA eLink Platform is the underlying basis of BEA eLink, a family of off-the-shelf enterprise application integration (EAI) products that leverage BEA's transaction platform to integrate existing legacy applications with customer-focused and business-to-business e-commerce initiatives.
The BEA eLink Platform (in addition to all options and adapters) is highly scalable. Multiple instances of BEA eLink Platforms can collaborate so that work is divided between eLink instances and domains. BEA eLink includes SNMP integration for enterprise management. The BEA eLink Platform features compliance with the Open Group's X/Open standards including support of the XA standard for Two-phase commit processing, the X/Open ATMI API, and XPG standards for language internationalization. C, C++ and Java (via Jolt) are supported. The BEA eLink Platform connects to any RDBMS, OODBMS, file manager or queue manager. The following components operate with BEA eLink Platform: