over 500 customers include: Bank of America, Citibank, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, E*Trade, JP Morgan Chase, Prudential, State Street Bank, and Swiss Re. What sets Sonic apart from traditional integration solutions is a robust enterprise messaging infrastructure, and cbuilt-from-the-ground-up d support for standards and service-oriented architectures.<br><br> ENTERPRISE-GRADE MESSAGING SonicMQ ® is the industry 9s most scalable enterprise message server, delivering exceptional reliability, extensive connectivity, unmatched management capabilities and comprehensive security for business-critical communication across the extended enterprise. In recent customer benchmarks, requiring a high degree of reliability and quality of service (QoS), under a heavy sustained load, SonicMQ significantly outperforms both TIBCO Enterprise for JMS and IBM WebSphere MQ. INDUSTRY SUCCESS UNSURPASSED SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE Sonic handles a large number of connections with high-speed message throughput, providing an extremely fast and scalable enterprise messaging solution.<br><br> Sonic 9 s proven performance, patent-pending Dynamic Routing Architecture " (DRA) and advanced clustering technologies ensure that financial services deployments can scale without limit to support vast numbers of messages, users and brokers. Sonic scales to support thousands of persistent messages per second, handles large numbers of connections and destinations, and demonstrates proven outstanding performance for large- scale, mission critical deployments, such as Bank of America and State Street Bank. UNMATCHED MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES Sonic 9 s management framework uses an infrastructure based on Java Management Extensions (JMX), which provides a standards-based approach for managing and monitoring SonicMQ deployments whenever and wherever management and monitoring are needed.<br><br> Sonic 9 s management framework enables the effortless configuration, deployment, and manage- ment of vast numbers of brokers from a single control point. SNMP support delivers seamless connectivity to third-party management and monitoring tools, including IBM Tivoli and CA Unicenter. EXTENSIVE CONNECTIVITY Sonic provides a standards-based approach for integrating applications and components across the extended enterprise.<br><br> Seamless support is provided for B2B systems (EDI, FIX, SWIFT, etc), J2EE application servers such as BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere, mainframe applications, and legacy systems. To leverage existing investments in messaging systems, Sonic provides extensive support for both IBM Websphere MQ and TIBCO Rendezvous. ENTERPRISE MESSAGING INFRASTRUCTURE MKT DATA MGMT ORDER MGMT RISK MGMT PORTFOLIO MGMT BACK OFFICE OTHER (e.g., CRM) TRADING FLOOR USERS B2B & B2C USERS AND SYSTEMS ENTERPRISE USERS INTERNET/ WIRELESS ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS SonicMQ ® provides the foundation for Sonic ESB TM , the industry 9 s first and most advanced enterprise service bus.<br><br> The Sonic ESB is a standards-based integration infrastructure that combines messaging, Web services, transformation and intelligent routing to reliably connect and coordinate the interaction of significant numbers of applications across highly distributed, extended enterprises. By supporting standard methods and mechanisms to develop and interconnect applications across the enterprise, such as WSDL, SOAP, XML, JMS and J2EE-CA, the Sonic ESB dramatically reduces the implementation time and total cost of ownership of financial services integration projects, and also reducing the dependency of vendor lock-in. ENTERPRISE MESSAGING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES Industry-leading financial institutions have selected Sonic to address business initiatives such as straight-through processing, risk management, customer portal integration and partner integration.<br><br> Below is a sampling of Sonic 9s financial services customers 3 for more information, please contact your local Sonic Software sales representative. BANK OF AMERICA Bank of America implemented SonicMQ to provide straight- through processing for its Derivatives Trading System. Sonic provides a scalable, high performance enterprise messaging backbone to reliably handle the trading for 200,000 active derivatives contracts and 100,000 daily transactions, accounting for several billion dollars in revenue CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON Credit Suisse First Boston uses a Call Management System (Myriad) that embeds Sonic as the enterprise messaging backbone.<br><br> The system provides reliable connectivity of phone, computer, and PDA's enabling traders to stay in touch with their clients, as well as keep track of market developments and activity on the trading floor, from anywhere at anytime. DEUTSCHE BANK Deutsche Bank utilizes Sonic for its Securities Lending System, providing a secure, reliable connection with the Depository Trust Company (DTC) - a national clearinghouse for the settlement of trades in corporate, municipal and mortgage-backed securities. The system supports 100 subscribers (traders), processing 300,000 messages per day, and will eventually support up to 500 trading desks.<br><br> GFI GROUP Sonic was crucial in tripling the scalability of GFI Group 9 s FX Options foreign-exchange trading system, and increasing the scalability of the energy trading system by 400%. Sonic delivers a superior, standards-based messaging solution with real-time updates and guaranteed message delivery, as well as providing a proxy- and firewall-friendly Internet messaging infrastructure, at a cost that made the project viable. JP MORGAN CHASE JP Morgan Chase relies on Sonic to provide guaranteed delivery of messages in their American Depository Receipts (ADR) application.<br><br> TELEKURS FINANCE Telekurs Finance uses Sonic as the enterprise messaging infra- structure to securely and reliably transfer financial information from its Finvest application to a variety of customers including large European commercial banks, insurance companies, pension institutions and estate management firms. SWISS RE Swiss Re generated significant savings using Sonic to streamline the exchange of back-office transactional infor- mation. The company reduced the duration of the account reconciliation process by approximately 70% resulting in improved positive cash flow and reduced man-hours.<br><br> SONIC SUCCESS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES cSonicMQ gave GFI the flexibility to offer a hybrid trading model, giving us more functionality at a much lower total cost than other enterprise-class real-time messaging solutions. d cWe get a superior, standards-based messaging solution with real-time updates and guaranteed message delivery. d Ken Krupa, Chief Technology Architect GFI Group, Inc. CONNECT EVERYTHING. ACHIEVE ANYTHING.<br><br> TM 0000098212 Prod. Code 3946-0000098212 ABOUT SONIC SOFTWARE Sonic Software provides the first comprehensive business integration suite built on an enterprise service bus (ESB). The Sonic product line delivers a distributed, standards-based, cost-effective, easily managed infrastructure that reliably integrates applications and orchestrates business processes across the extended enterprise.<br><br> Sonic is the world's fastest growing integration and middleware company and counts global leaders among over 500 customers in financial services, energy, telecommunications and manufacturing. Sonic is an independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a $300 million software industry leader. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Sonic Software can be reached on the Web at www.sonicsoftware.com, or by phone at +1-781-999-7000 or 1-866-GET-SONIC.<br><br> Corporate and North American Headquarters Sonic Software Corporation,14 Oak Park, Bedford, MA 01730 USA Tel: 781-999-7000 Toll-free: 866-GET-SONIC Fax: 781-999-7202 EMEA Headquarters Sonic Software (UK) Limited, 210 Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire SL1 3XE, United Kingdom Tel: + 44 (0)1753 217000 Fax: + 44 (0)175 3 217001 © Copyright 2003 Sonic Software Corporation. All rights reserved. SonicMQ is a registered trademark of Sonic Software Corporati on.<br><br> Sonic ESB is a trademark of Sonic Software Corporation. All other trademarks, marked and not marked, are the property of their respective manufacturers. Specifications subject to change without notice.<br><br> Check Sonic 9s website at www.sonicsoftware.com for the latest information on supported platforms. www.sonicsoftware.com OTHER INDUSTRY SUCCESSES Telecommunications Retail Government Manufacturing

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