Available immediately, eSpatial’s iSMART for WebLogic provides a platform for development and delivery of integrated, enterprise grade spatially-enabled applications to a range of customers in the public sector, defense, transportation and utility organizations worldwide.
BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, delivers the unified Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform for business transformation and optimization in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams.
The BEA WebLogic® Product Family provides a rock-solid foundation for building, integrating, presenting, and running enterprise applications and SOA services. These capabilities, coupled with eSpatial’s iSMART GeoPortal and development environment will enable customers to deploy innovative new Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and services within a single framework.
“BEA is excited that eSpatial’s iSMART is now available for WebLogic, offering existing and future customers flexible geospatial software and pioneering technology that can leverage existing network assets and offer real-world spatial intelligence and mapping solutions,” said Peter Cooper-Ellis, Vice President and General Manager, BEA WebLogic Server.
"This development in interoperability extends eSpatial's proven geospatial software and solutions to the thousands of BEA customers around the world using BEA WebLogic," said Eamon Walsh, CTO, eSpatial. "As iSMART is the only GeoSpatial platform built from the ground up within a J2EE application server – this provides the ability to be easily integrated within an organization's existing technology.”
eSpatial continues to work with world leading technology and data partners to provide best of breed iSMART based solutions. These include Oracle, NAVTEQ (US), Laser-Scan (UK), Ordnance Survey (GB) and PCI Geomatics (Canada).

About eSpatial
eSpatial, founded in Dublin, Ireland and with offices in the USA, is a world leader in enterprise strength spatial information management technology. Its advanced spatial environment, iSMART, in conjunction with Oracle Spatial, provides a platform for highly scalable and secure spatially enabled applications in a standard enterprise IT environment with unprecedented ease of use, manageability and support for OGC Web Services. Its standards based Rapid Application Development environment and GeoPortal allows organizations to quickly and easily build new applications (or extend existing ones) to include spatial functionality. These applications provide spatial intelligence to anyone, anywhere, on any device, connected or disconnected. eSpatial's technology is used in every area of IT including Public Sector, Defense, Telecommunications and Utility organizations.

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