Green Hat Consulting Co-Sponsors and Exhibits at First Tibco User Conference in Chicago, Illinois

LONDON – October 7th, 2004 - Green Hat Consulting is proud to announce that, as part of our strategic commitment to TIBCO and following on from our co-sponsorship of Strategic Directions 2003, TIBCO’s first-ever User Conference to be held next week in Chicago, Illinois will again be co-sponsored by Green Hat.

The Conference is expected to attract some 700 members of the TIBCO User Community. They will have a unique opportunity to interact with TIBCO experts and other users of TIBCO's products so they can learn about TIBCO's solution and strategy, share best practices for effective architecture and implementation, discover tips and tricks for rapid configuration and deployment, and even find out how to secure the lasting support and cooperation of everybody from end-users to executives.

Alongside the Conference, Green Hat will be on-hand to discuss with TIBCO users how to address commonly-raised questions such as:

How do I reduce the time and cost involved in the testing of TIBCO projects?
How can I undertake integration testing when one of the Adapters isn't ready yet?
Is it possible to perform end-to-end performance testing on the system?
How do I monitor my production TIBCO network on an enterprise-wide level?
What systems are available that enable me to capture messages and replay them at a later date?

Our consultants will demonstrate how the use of Green Hat’s industry-leading GH Tools will assist them with these and a variety of other issues.

"Green Hat Consulting has again demonstrated its commitment to TIBCO and, more importantly, to our users through it co-sponsorship of, and attendance at, TUCON’04" commented Vincent Kenealy, Alliances Director for TIBCO EMEA. "We are delighted to see them in Chicago and to have them demonstrating how our users can extract even more value from their investment in TIBCO technology".

Green Hat will also be demonstrating for the first time a new BusinessWorks-based solution for Financial trading organisations looking for an end-to-end platform for the automated processing of trade information. BTP for Finance provides a modular, but integrated approach to this problem and incorporates external interfaces for trade reporting and matching, and clearing and settlement.

"TUCON will be the first time that we have demonstrated BTP for Finance in the US" comments Martyn Bedford, Head of Solutions Practice at Green Hat "and it will be an ideal opportunity for TIBCO users in the Financial Services community to see a business solution that enables them to drive business value from their TIBCO investment."

"We are proud to once again be associated with a major TIBCO event such as TUCON’04" says Mark Glading, Head of Sales & Marketing at Green Hat. "TIBCO users all over the world are already using the GH Tools and with a live user of BTP for Finance in the City Of London, we are very excited about showing these products to the rest of the TIBCO community".

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 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.

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