BEA Systems posted a third quarter profit of 11 percent compared to last year, thanks to an uptick in licenses and services for its new AquaLogic product line.
The San Jose, Calif., software maker said its profit rose to $37.1 million, or 9 cents a share, up from $33.5 million, or 8 cents a share, a year earlier.
BEA also reported record revenues of $291.5 million for 3Q, up 10 percent from $264.4 million in the year-ago quarter.
License revenues totaled $121.3 million, up 6 percent from $114.9 million in Q3 2004. Services sales were $170.2 million, up 14 percent from $149.5 million in Q3 2004.
The company’s sales force delivered BEA’s highest revenue performance ever in the Americas with revenue up 17 percent over last year.
The company, which this past year refocused its energy on the AquaLogic service-oriented architecture (SOA) BEA formed the division after it acquired Plumtree Software for $204 million. Rob Levy slides into Carges’ former post as CTO. Both report to CEO Alfred Chuang. AquaLogic, BEA’s plan for unlocking data from different computing software and systems, was created to infuse life into the company’s floundering software sales. BEA has faced stiff competition from IBM, Sun Microsystems and Oracle in the middleware market. AquaLogic is different from previous BEA approaches in that it doesn’t make Java the be-all, end-all platform, acknowledging that enterprises feature computing systems running multiple computing languages and infrastructure from many vendors. BEA was able to convince some companies of the value of the new platform, as the vendor scored its first multi-million dollar stand-alone order for the new AquaLogic Service Bus. Overall, the AquaLogic product family contributed to seven out of BEA’s 19 $1 million license deals, Chuang said in a statement. In an effort to appeal to a broader developer audience, BEA has also put more resources into supporting open source platforms, and supplemented its software development portfolio with the purchases of Plumtree, Compoze, ConnecTerra, M7 and SolarMetric.