Commodities Trader Trafigura, Ltd. Redesigns Risk Management System with ActiveVOS.

Leading Global Trader in Oil, Minerals and Metals Improves Reliability, Gains Transparency in Core Business Processes

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Active Endpoints, Inc. (www.activevos.com), the inventor of visual orchestration systems (VOS), today announced that Trafigura, Ltd. (www.trafigura.com) has deployed a commodities market risk assessment system orchestrated by ActiveVOS.

Trafigura is one of the world's leading international commodity traders, specializing in the oil, minerals and metals market. Trafigura's primary trading businesses are the supply and transport of crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas, liquefied natural gas and metals. It is the world's second largest independent non-ferrous trading company and the third largest independent oil trader.

Brown Study Ltd. (www.brownstudy.ltd.uk), a UK-based ActiveVOS partner, led the redesign and implementation by first re-working legacy applications as services and then orchestrating them with ActiveVOS. Trafigura's new services-oriented architecture (SOA) risk assessment application is more reliable, offers vastly better performance and is easy to extend.

"Using ActiveVOS, we were able to reduce the time required for risk assessment reporting from between six to eight hours down to just 35 minutes," said Michael Marconi, director, Brown Study, Ltd. "Now that the risk assessment application is in production, it has proven to be highly robust - previously a challenge for Trafigura - and producing daily risk assessment reports is now stress-free. Traders can now far more easily assess risk, which drives the fundamental trading business for Trafigura."

Brown Study has documented the details of its approach to designing and developing this important business process management (BPM) application in a free whitepaper, which can be downloaded at http://www.activevos.com/proof-casestudies.php.

ActiveVOS allows developers, business analysts, operations staff and managers to develop, test, deploy, manage and maintain a new generation of 100% standards-based BPM applications affordably and quickly. In contrast to the stitched-together-through-acquisition approaches of other vendors, ActiveVOS comes complete. ActiveVOS is easy to learn and easily deployed. Download a trial of ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/trial.

"Trafigura joins a growing list of customers who have moved from concept to production with ActiveVOS at record speed," said Eric Egertson, vice president, sales, Active Endpoints. "Because ActiveVOS is an affordable, all-in-one BPM design, development and deployment environment, partners and customers can experience the benefits SOA-based development and achieve the kinds of impressive results that Trafigura did in record time."

About Active Endpoints, Inc.

Active Endpoints (www.activevos.com) is the leading developer of visual orchestration systems. VOSs empower line of business project teams to create applications using services and industry standards, including BPMN and BPEL, making their businesses more agile and effective. Active Endpoints' ActiveVOS promotes mass adoption of SOA-enabled applications by focusing on accelerating project delivery time with a standards-based, easy to use system. Active Endpoints is headquartered in Waltham, MA with development facilities in Shelton, CT.

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