Green Hat Consulting partners with Aipex Pty Ltd for the distribution of Industry Leading GH Tools for TIBCO users in Australia

LONDON and MELBOURNE – July 29th, 2004 - Green Hat Consulting and Aipex today announced the signing of an Agreement which gives local distribution rights across Australia to Aipex, for Green Hat Consulting’s GH Tools for TIBCO users.

"Across the globe, there is huge interest from the TIBCO user base in our GH Tools" commented Mark Glading, Head of Sales & Marketing at Green Hat Consulting. "We are determined to build upon this interest in order 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. In order to do this, we recognise the huge importance of having local distributors who understand this market space. Nobody fits this bill better in Australia than Aipex and we are delighted to have established this important relationship with them".

"Aipex has established practices covering both TIBCO and Testing" added Trevor Townsend, Director at Aipex. "Combining the GH Tools with our own capabilities and offerings will enable us to ensure that we can provide a complete solution to all TIBCO users across Australia".

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 Aipex
AIPEX is a consulting firm providing business and technology advice in the areas of Risk, Process and Architectures. Our mission is to improve business and technology decision making through our innovative people, methodologies and tools.

AIPEX commercial and technical specialists work to balance business needs with operational risk and compliance obligations to establish the required investment in systems.

Beyond advice, AIPEX offers a full range of Professional Services to assist customers with solution implementation.

The focus of AIPEX’s TIBCO service offering is to match process architecture and implementation specialists to achieve superior business alignment within the project. We uniquely combine the skills of our commerce professionals, providing expert business analysis, together with our experienced TIBCO professionals, to deliver the business benefits you expect of your investment in EAI.

In addition AIPEX can provide expert consulting and training on the use of GHTools in your environment.

About Green Hat
Green Hat is a business process automation and systems integration company, specialising in the finance, energy and telecommunications sectors. Our clients include some of the largest European and American investment banks, stock exchanges and providers of trading systems.

In addition, we have delivered fully integrated process automation ("STP") solutions to major clients in the finance, telecommunications, energy trading and travel & logistic sectors across Europe. Our expertise in developing and delivering industry solutions which automate and integrate the key business processes in that sector has enabled our clients to enjoy real improvements in efficiency and productivity.

Green Hat's products include feeds and adapters, monitoring and administration tools and front-ends. Our bespoke development service accommodates individual requirements.

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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