Aleri is the leading provider of enterprise-class complex event processing technology for financial institutions and beyond. Aleri's superior Streaming Platform is backed by the company's deep background and knowledge gained over 20 years of supporting mission critical banking applications for the world's largest banks and close to 10 years of pioneering research in the field of event processing.

The Aleri Platform was designed from the ground up to provide the most robust architecture available for the rapid implementation of mission critical applications within the most demanding environments. Built for high throughput with minimal latency, Aleri's event processing technology allows customers to analyze and respond instantly to high-volume, high-speed data to minimize risk and increase competitive advantage. Aleri is the first to develop and deploy commercial enterprise-class applications built on event processing technology - the Aleri Liquidity Management System, which automates time-consuming, manual processes to allow institutions to focus on cost-effective liquidity strategies that reduce operational costs while enhancing their competitive position, and the Aleri Market Liquidity Analysis engine, which consolidates multiple order book feeds from individual exchanges to provide a powerful tool for trading in fragmented markets.

Aleri is a global company headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York, New Jersey, London, and Paris. For more information, visit www.aleri.com.

BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA® Enterprise 360°, the industry's most advanced SOA-based offering, is a comprehensive approach to delivering business results that includes technology, professional services, best practices, and world-class partners. Information about how BEA helps customers build a Liquid Enterprise™ that transforms their business can be found at bea.com.

For nearly a century IBM has been working with the world's leading financial services institutions, building industry skills as well as making research and development investments specifically tuned to the needs of the global financial markets. Drawing on this experience and a proven history, IBM offers a wide range of technologies, software, and services. We're a flexible partner ready to assemble the right components to help you, your clients and your stakeholders capitalize on innovation and achieve operational efficiencies, resulting in sustainable revenue growth. For more information, go to ibm.com/financialmarkets.

Kx offers a unified approach to streaming, realtime and historical data analysis with its high-performance kdb+ database platform. Kdb+ provides a portable 64-bit implementation of our expressive query and programming language to analyze and store streaming events, manipulate in-memory and on-disk databases, and build distributed low-latency applications. Our focus is on delivering the best performance and flexibility for high-volume, data-intensive analytics and applications.
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RTI sets the standard in high-performance messaging. Latency in the tens of microseconds keeps you ahead of the market while reliable multicast throughput of millions of messages per second accommodates exploding market data volumes--without the overhead of brokers, daemons or specialized appliances. With a rich set of integrated capabilities including persistence, last value cache, Complex Event Processing and high-speed data recording, RTI provides a comprehensive infrastructure for your high-performance trading applications. See http://www.rti.com/markets/financial-services.html.

Vhayu delivers the fastest and easiest-to-use real-time software solutions to the world's leading financial institutions for the capture and high-speed analysis of massive amounts of streaming and historical data.

Through its unique patented technology, the Vhayu Velocity tick processing and persistence platform gives a significant competitive advantage to its customers by delivering the information needed to make trading decisions faster than any other available system. Partnered with Reuters, Activ Financial, Microsoft, Intel and Infosys, Vhayu's customers include broker/dealers, the leading online discount broker, hedge funds, market data providers and alternative trading systems. Founded in 1998 by experts in multi-processor design, real-time operating systems, enterprise database systems and financial market data, Vhayu is backed by top tier investors, including Menlo Ventures. For more information, visit www.vhayu.com.

Volante Technologies has been accelerating data integration for financial firms and utilities around the world since 2001. Clocked in sub-milliseconds, Volante delivers ultra low-latency data conversion. Volante also slashes development time with built-in vendor feed handlers, FIX, FAST, SWIFT, XML and other common financial formats.

Typical uses of Volante include integrating real time messages, interfacing with industry utilities and trading venues, normalizing market data feeds to internal standards, and consolidating account and activity data for risk and regulatory reporting. Completely systems-agnostic, Volante works in any configuration of applications, networks and platforms.

With metadata-based technology, Volante enables the full range of metadata functions from re-use of integration codes to supporting canonical data standards. Volante is used today for enterprise data governance, data-centric architectures, application integration and model-driven application development.

For more information about Volante and its customers, visit www.volantetech.com or contact us at sales@volantetech.com.