Intervoice and BEA Systems Deliver Innovative Telecommunications Solutions for Global IMS Providers.Interoperability Testing with Huawei Validates Joint Offering to Expand Subscriber Services Worldwide HONG KONG Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. -- BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , Inc., a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software, and Intervoice, Inc. (Nasdaq:INTV INTV Intelligent Television INTV Association of Independent Television Stations ), a world leader in converged voice and information technology, today announced the integration of Intervoice Media Exchange Enhanced Services Platform and the BEA WebLogic A software suite from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that is used to deploy Web and SOA applications. The core product is BEA WebLogic Server, a J2EE application server. [R] SIP Server, a converged Java-IMS-SOA service creation and delivery platform designed to promote adoption of IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. (IP Multimedia Subsystem An integrated network for telecommunications carriers that uses the IP protocol as its foundation for packetized voice, video and data. Supporting voice over IP (VoIP) in all its flavors (SIP, H.323, MGCP, etc. )-based communication services around the world, including voicemail, voiceSMS and videomail. Commercial acceptance of Intervoice and BEA WebLogic SIP Server by Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. ("Huawei"), a premier global network equipment provider, is designed to significantly advance network operators' efforts to better define their evolving IMS-NGN Services Layer architecture. Huawei plans to distribute both BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. and Intervoice solutions in their IMS infrastructure and application offerings that they are providing to carriers around the world. "Intervoice and BEA have shown a level of dedication not only to IMS but also to the communications leadership that China is providing to the world, as well as the region," said Ding Yun, president of Core Networks, Huawei. "Huawei is facilitating comprehensive cooperation to build an open IMS eco-system, for carrier operators around the world that can deliver various innovative services to their subscribers as quickly as possible." The joint BEA and Intervoice offering combined with the successful interoperability testing with Huawei's IMS infrastructure technologies, represent a major milestone in the two-year partnership between BEA and Intervoice. The joint offering is designed to help facilitate global delivery of IMS-based applications and lead the way for other next-generation solutions. Multi-level integration and interoperability of standards-based components is a critical enabler of IMS, early adoption of which was challenged by traditional "silo-ed" approaches to service delivery. This is the problem that Huawei, BEA and Intervoice have addressed. "This year, carriers have seen dramatic increases in subscriber demand for mobile media services, and have turned to leaders like Huawei and innovators like BEA and Intervoice for pioneeering technologies to help these challenges," said Wai Wong, executive vice president, products, BEA Systems. "BEA and Intervoice have accelerated our delivery plans to accommodate these dynamic market conditions, and we will roll out additional offerings in the coming months." "BEA, Intervoice and Huawei recognize IMS as a landscape-altering architecture. In direct discussions with our carrier customers, it became clear that what they need is an open application environment that could exploit the capabilities of next generation handsets," said Jim Milton, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Intervoice. "The availability of an open applications framework platform such as Intervoice Media Exchange features applications such as voicemail, voiceSMS and videomail that can help accelerate adoption of IMS throughout the world." Intervoice and BEA share a commitment to delivering a world class user experience, increasing productivity and driving up Average Revenue per User (ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) A calculation often used to determine the overall value of an application. It is also used to rate particular customers, especially in the wireless space, by comparing someone's account to the overall average. ) with Network customers as well as increasing productivity and reducing costs in the customer contact center environment. BEA and its BEA WebLogic[R] Communications Platform product family feature prominently in Intervoice's Media Exchange offerings and today's announcement of the completion of the platform interoperability test raises the two companies' level of commitment to the success of the partnership. BEA WebLogic[R] SIP Server, the industry's first converged Java EE-SIP-IMS application server and a key component of the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, is the integration point for the interoperability of the Intervoice Media Exchange and Home Zone platform. Intervoice will be promoting the joint solutions on the BEA Booth #5009, Telecom Village, Hall 5 & 7, Asia World Expo at the ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. conference in Hong Kong, 4 - 8, December and on its own stand (Stand E1) at BEA World Beijing (13 and 14, December). BEA WebLogic SIP Server is a key component of the BEA SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. 360 platform. Announced in Sept. at BEAWorld 2006 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , the BEA SOA 360 platform is designed to deliver the industry's most unified SOA platform and spans all three of BEA's product families, AquaLogic, WebLogic, Tuxedo[R] and the company's newly unveiled SOA collaborative tooling environment, BEA Workspace 360. (See Sept. 19, 2006, press release titled "BEA Announces SOA 360; Industry's most unified SOA Platform to transform and optimize business.") For more information about BEA WebLogic SIP Server, please visit bea.com/sip, and the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, please visit www.bea.com/wlcom. About BEA BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA's SOA 360 platform is the industry's most unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization, in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to achieve Business LiquidITy[TM] can be found at bea.com. About Intervoice Intervoice, Inc. (Nasdaq:INTV) provides leading enterprises and network operators with the platform, software, applications and services necessary to optimize the customer experience through voice automation solutions. Intervoice Media Exchange, the open, standards-based Intervoice product suite, offers unparalleled flexibility for advanced multi-media messaging, portal, IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. and payment applications. Building on more than 20 years of systems integration and service delivery experience, the Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. Agility Suite from Intervoice is designed to provide proven best practices toward design, implementation, and optimization of voice applications. Intervoice systems have been proven in more than 23,000 implementations worldwide. With the acquisition of Nuasis, Intervoice can now bring new IP-based contact center applications to the agent desktop, including web-chat and email response applications, along with its market leading speech-enabled IVR and voice portal An interactive voice response (IVR) front end to a data retrieval system. This does not differ in core technology from traditional IVR; rather, the difference is in the application presented. Where old-style IVR was mostly a routing application (press 1 for sales, 2 for service, etc. self-service solutions. In addition to traditional premise-based deployments, the Nuasis offering supports remote based agents and hosted solutions. Intervoice is headquartered in Dallas with offices in Europe, the Middle East, South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Africa and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit www.intervoice.com. Intervoice has included in this press release certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995 concerning its business and operations that are based on management's current beliefs, including statements regarding plans and timetables for promotion and distribution of BEA and Intervoice products. All statements other than statements of historical fact in this press release are forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned to read the risks and uncertainties, described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, the risks and uncertainties set forth under the caption entitled "Cautionary Disclosures to Qualify Forward-Looking Statements" in the Company's Annual Report filed on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and Quarterly Reports filed on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . Intervoice cautions current and potential investors that such risks and uncertainties could result in material differences from the forward-looking statements in this press release. Copyright (C) 2006 BEA Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. BEA, Built on BEA, Jolt, Joltbeans, Steelthread, Top End, Tuxedo, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA AquaLogic, BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform, BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security, BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, BEA dev2dev Subscriptions, BEA eLink, BEA MessageQ, BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA WebLogic Enterprise The previous name for BEA's CORBA ORB, which later became part of the BEA Tuxedo platform. For a while, WebLogic Enterprise was the name of the entire product suite, but Enterprise was later dropped. See BEA Tuxedo. , BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA WebLogic JDriver, BEA WebLogic Log Central, BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA JRockit, BEA WebLogic SIP Server, BEA WebLogic WorkGroup Edition, and BEA WebLogic Workshop are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA Mission Critical Support is a service mark of BEA Systems, Inc. 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