1. Washingtonpost.com slides 1. One-slide Summary

2. BEA Customer: Washingtonpost.com Problem: Need to build better customer relationships online –Premier newspaper Web site needed to deploy reliable, personalized services that can scale up to handle millions of visitors. Solution: Personalization, integration, & content management –Integrating content management with personalized applications for mywashingtonpost.com –Deploying services for its recruitment site, WashingtonJobs.com Results: Increased revenues and better customer relations –Revenues for employment site tripled. –Page views increased 30%, enrollment of new employers up 20%, and sales of direct job postings up 50% –mywashingtonpost.com has driven more than 115,000 registrations Benefits: Reliable, extensible –Handles peak loads of more than 6M page views per day on washingtonpost, 10M page views per month on washingtonjobs –Content presentation and management is unified under a single extensible architecture

3. Washingtonpost.com slides 2. Proof point and quote

4. BEA Customer: Washingtonpost.com Provides job opportunities and personalized news “WebLogic gives us the building blocks that accelerate the delivery of new applications, enable the presentation of dynamic content, lower administration and management costs, and integrate with our legacy systems and third-party applications... The BEA platform has been a huge plus for us. It has allowed us to build systems with a functionality that we previously could not afford. But even more important than the cost, is the increased functionality that BEA provides. The strength of its Java implementation shortens delivery of new applications substantially and plays an important role in enabling us to provide a more personalized user experience..” — Eric Schvimmer, VP of Technology washingtonpost.com

5. Washingtonpost.com slides 3. Detailed overview

6. BEA Customer: Washingtonpost.com Washington Post: America's most trusted source for everything in and about Washington, D.C Media companies must provide content and serve consumers online Requirements –mywashingtonpost.com where users have tools, content, and services personalized to fit their lifestyle –washingtonjobs.com, an employment and recruitment site that simplifies and personalizes job hunting and recruiting –Must be integrated with the existing content management system and with Java-based delivery architecture –Must offer a dynamic user experience, provide interactive tools, and include a registration system to capture demographic information

7. BEA Customer: Washingtonpost.com Benefits of the BEA Platform: Reliability –Handles peak loads of more than 6M page views per day on washingtonpost, 10M page views per month on washingtonjobs –Services are reliable and available. Extensibility –Content presentation and management is unified under a single extensible architecture –Deployment platform supports dynamic content, allows new capabilities to be deployed online rapidly, and provides an enriched, interactive reader experience. Results: –Revenues for employment site tripled. –Page views increased 30%, enrollment of new employers up 20%, and sales of direct job postings up 50% –mywashingtonpost.com has driven more than 115,000 registrations