 |  More than 15,000 businesses around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, trust BEA technology to power their most critical business applications. BEA works closely with these market leaders to deliver technologies that leverage BEA's award-winning application infrastructure software and allow companies to deploy service-oriented applications for competitive advantage. Learn why customers continue to turn to BEA to solve their most challenging business needs. > View Customer Profiles   BEA enabled Accredited Home Lenders to implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to streamline its core business processes. Read success story |  |  |  |  Fortune Global 500 organizations come to BEA to solve specific business challenges regarding their employees, customers, constituents, and partners. Learn more about how BEA helped solve the following key business needs for customers: In the past, we have relied heavily on paper-based processes to calculate, track and collect tax obligations. That made us vulnerable to everything from bounced checks to forged documents. We see e-government as a way to maximize convenience and improve service for citizens while minimizing our exposure. In fact, we've been able to expand our value to the country since deploying our BEA-powered portal. We have more efficient revenue collecting processes, and we're also reducing the cost of operations. ? Pamela Cuzmar director of technology and research General Treasury of the Republic of Chile |  |