Trafigura Successfully Deploys Metastorm BPM®

Leading Trading Firm Uses Metastorm for Enterprise Process Automation

LONDON, UK and BALTIMORE, MD – October 23, 2007 – Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced its software is being used by Trafigura, one of the world’s leading international commodity traders. Trafigura has selected Metastorm BPM® as the foundation to aid in creating streamlined, automated processes across the organization.

“To meet the challenges of our growing business, we needed to find a technology to help manage our complex processes that are crucial to running our business and one that would be flexible enough to continue to grow with us,” stated Simon Coppen-Gardner, Systems Architect, Trafigura. “The ability to effectively address our needs and help better service our clients is a significant competitive advantage, and Metastorm's BPM solution is enabling us to do just that.”

Trafigura is a physical trader in commodities such as crude oil, refined oil products, non-ferrous concentrates and refined metals. The company operates globally across 35 countries and has grown significantly over the past four years. In order to continue its growth and capitalize on its success, Trafigura wanted to deploy a technology that would help formalize its processes and implement defined, repeatable procedures – giving the company a solution to help improve the management and control of its operations.