OpenSpan Certifies Project Brokers to Accelerate SOA Implementations for European Financial Services Organizations

Collaboration meets growing European demand for OpenSpan deployments

ATLANTA, GA, April 7, 2008 – OpenSpan, Inc., the enabler of the New Enterprise Desktop, today announced that OpenSpan and Project Brokers, a European systems integrator specializing in business intelligence analytics for the financial services industry, have entered into a strategic agreement whereby Project Brokers will become a certified OpenSpan partner for Europe.  Project Brokers will leverage the OpenSpan Platform to accelerate SOA and application integration projects for financial services industry enterprises throughout Europe.

“Project Brokers was formed with the explicit goal of creating cost effective, targeted BI solutions that can be implemented quickly and deliver a rapid return on investment for financial services enterprises,” said Daren Cox, Managing Director, Project Brokers. “The OpenSpan Platform is an ideal technology for our customers in that it enables the rapid integration of enterprise desktops and legacy applications to drive employee productivity gains and support SOA deployments aimed at improving business agility.”

Project Brokers will leverage the OpenSpan Platform to meet the significant demand in Europe for technologies that improve desktop productivity and that arm financial services professionals with the analytics necessary to deliver a higher quality of service to customers. As OpenSpan certified partners, Project Brokers will build and support OpenSpan deployments with the backing of OpenSpan Inc. The UK-based systems integrator will create solutions with the core OpenSpan Platform as well as the OpenSpan Platform SOA Desktop Edition.

“OpenSpan is experiencing strong demand in Europe for the OpenSpan platform because it helps organizations experience all the benefits of an SOA deployment, but in a much shorter time frame,” said Francis Carden, CEO of OpenSpan. “As a certified OpenSpan partner, Project Brokers is helping us meet that demand by putting its financial services domain expertise to work as they implement the OpenSpan platform for their customers.”

The OpenSpan Platform is the industry’s only software platform that transcends traditional server and user interface integration technologies by leveraging the interactions between applications and the underlying operating system. This dramatically simplifies the integration process across both legacy and modern application platforms, including Web services. It also allows enterprises to build business process automations that span multiple environments, including desktop applications.

About Project Brokers

Formed in 2005, Project Brokers has become a leading provider of business intelligence analytics to the financial services industry. Project Brokers’ founders believed existing BI solutions took too long to implement, did not deliver on their promises and were too expensive. They created Project Brokers to provide a rapid return on investment within days or weeks rather than the traditional months or in some cases years; to work with exciting and disruptive new BI vendors in order to lower the cost of BI such that it could become pervasive across organizations and not just the privilege of a few elites; finally, to define and refine end user requirements visually and in real time by working closely with the end user and reducing the risk of non-delivery through the use of an iterative, agile development methodology

About OpenSpan, Inc.

Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company’s unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. The award-winning OpenSpan Platform received the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine as well as the 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT community. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at www.openspan.com.

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