Green Hat appoints Dubai-based MENA eSolutions to distribute TIBCO Tools in Middle East and North Africa

LONDON – July 20th, 2004 - Green Hat Consulting and MENA eSolutions today announced the signing of an agreement which will give MENA the rights to market and resell Green Hat Consulting’s GH Tools for TIBCO users in the Middle East and North Africa.

"We are delighted to have secured this arrangement with the premier TIBCO Systems Integrator in the Region" commented Mark Glading, Head of Sales & Marketing at Green Hat Consulting. "We are determined to further establish the GH Tools as the de facto standard for TIBCO users in the areas of automated testing, production monitoring and message support. To do that on a global basis, we are appointing local distributors in all the major geographic regions and this announcement with MENA will give TIBCO users in the Middle East and North Africa local access to our products".

"Our commitment to providing our customers with the very best technology and services is further enhanced with this announcement" added Julian Lloyd, Vice President of Corporate Development at MENA eSolutions. "Combining the GH Tools with our own capabilities and offerings will enable us to ensure that we can provide a complete solution to our TIBCO users".

About the GH Tools
The GH Tools are a set of productised, commercially-available tools that have emerged from Green Hat's many, many man-years of work on TIBCO projects, where the lack of tools to assist in the build, test and run phases of such projects has always been apparent. The GH Tools incorporate all of our own experience in this area, plus that of our customers and users. As supported products, there is a fully-funded roadmap to build on the level of functionality that users want to see in this area; all users have free access to product upgrades (subject to a current maintenance agreement) and thus share in the aggregation of good ideas and enhancement requests.

The GH Tools are sold and supported by a network of Resellers around the world including:

Aipex Pty Ltd in Australia and New Zealand
MENA eSolutions in the Middle East and North Africa
Perficient in North America
Dynabyte in Scandinavia.

The tools are:

GH Tester an automated testing tool which facilitates dramatic savings in the time and cost of building and testing integration projects.
http://www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghtester

GH Tracker a "black box flight recorder" enabling users to capture the messages published onto the TIB. These are then stored in a database for subsequent searching and sorting to identify broken messages and message flows.
http://www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghtracker

GH Viewer provides an enterprise-wide view of the TIBCO network at the protocol level, enabling users to identify potential bottlenecks and hotspots before they cause expensive system degradation.
http://www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghviewer

About MENA eSolutions
MENA eSolutions is a leading provider of advanced IT solutions in the Middle East, and the company focuses on providing leading-edge software solutions from N America and Europe, and adapting these solutions to fit local needs. MENA eSolutions caters to a variety of vertical sectors including financial services, media, government, energy and aviation. MENA eSolutions is also the sole licenced distributor of TIBCO software in the Middle East. The company has offices in Dubai, Riyadh and Jeddah. For more information about the company please visit www.menaesolutions.com.

About Green Hat
Since 1996, Green Hat has been providing expertise in the use of integration technologies to deliver cost-effective solutions to real business issues. Our suite of GH Software products facilitates significant savings in time and cost to organisations implementing SOA architectures using messaging-based technologies. Our customers range from the niche financial trading boutique to international telecom players and investment banks, a diverse range of businesses, united through their need for scaleable, reliable, integrated solutions.

For more information about our products and services, or to download free software and tools, visit our website: www.greenhat.com.

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