Exactpro Systems High Level Overview January 2014

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1. Exactpro Systems
   Company & Capabilities Overview
   JANUARY 2014
   

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2. Exactpro Systems Company Overview
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   Exactpro is: Our locations in Russia:
   • A specialist firm focused on functional and non
   functional testing of securities data distribution,
   trading systems, risk management and post-trade
   infrastructures
   • An independent company incorporated in 2009 with
   10 people, now employing over 200 specialists
   • A US company registered and head-quartered in San
   Rafael, California, with four QA & development
   centres in Russia and sales support in the UK
   

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3. Exactpro Systems Existing Customers Include:
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   • A major stock exchange group with a range of
   capital markets, post trade and information
   services
   • A leading global derivatives (financial and
   commodities) broker
   • One of the most prominent international
   interdealer brokers in fixed income and OTC
   derivatives
   • A significant commodity exchange and its
   clearing arm
   • A software provider of adaptive trading
   technologies for international buy- and sell-side
   firms
   • A major investment bank specializing in
   emerging markets
   • Software vendors providing advanced trading
   platforms and algorithmic support
   • A global equities broker offering program
   and single name execution
   

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4. What Makes Exactpro Different?
   • Proactive and flexible approach to engaging with the project team
   • High energy, determination and discipline
   • Attention to detail
   • Work on customers chosen time zone
   Build Software To Test Software
   Highest Calibre Technical Teams
   Stability
   Work Ethos/Culture
   • Automated testing (and analysis of results) wherever possible
   • We develop and use our own test tool suite & create new test tools as needed*
   • Test Automation is in our DNA, our tool set is a key part of our added value!
   • Core of highly experienced industry consultant practitioners
   • Deepest domain expertise of instruments/contracts, market data, exchanges,
   workflow, functionality, risk models, industry standards, etc.
   • We attract the best graduates through close links with Russian technical
   universities
   • Extensive internal training program to grow our talent pool
   • Extremely low levels of staff turnover
   • High levels of customer retention
   • Very attractive offshore rates
   • Majority of work carried out offshore (via remote access)
   • The added value we bring to projects has been proven to maximize the
   potential for delivery on schedule
   Cost/Value
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   * We also use open source tools where applicable, and we are well versed in the QA
   industry standard tools & hence can use those where it is customer policy to do so
   

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5. Exactpro Builds Software to Test Our Clients’ Software
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   ClearTH:
   • Post-Trade testing tool
   • Verifies each stage of the
   DLC
   • Integrated schedule
   • Automated matrices
   • Can create multiple days
   test scenarios
   • Concurrent multiple tests
   • Integrated simulators
   • SWIFT ISO protocol support
   Microfix:
   • Executes multithreaded java
   code
   • Complexity of test algorithms is
   defined by the test developer
   • Supports multiple client fix
   connections, order entry and
   market data via FIX
   • Can use GUI to iterate through
   sent and received messages
   Dolphin:
   • Model-based testing
   of market surveillance
   systems
   Shsha:
   • Post-transactional tool
   • Analyzes clients' activity and forecasts system response
   • Parses and displays logs in a user-friendly way
   • Parses messages and then puts each to a data base
   table where each column corresponds to each message
   field
   • Allows making summarized reports, etc
   • Easy to understand GUI
   Load Injector:
   • Simulates multiple client
   connections with a
   specified load shape for
   each connection or a group
   of connections
   • Up to 75K messages /
   second from a single CPU
   core
   • Measures latencies in
   microsecond range
   • Performance test reports
   Sailfish:
   • Can test Order Entry, Market Data and Post
   Trade connections in one test scenario
   • Each test scenario is independent
   • Allows running test scripts in any sequence
   • Simulation of multiple user connections
   • Server simulators
   • All messages are stored into a data base
   • Generates test reports
   

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6. Domain Capabilities – We are 100% Focused on Systems that Process
   Financial Products, with Particular Focus on Electronic Trading
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   Financial Products
   Platforms Pre and Post Trade;
   -Commodities, Derivatives
   Equities, Fixed
   Income, FX
   Deal Capture &
   Position Keeping
   Risk Management
   Middle Office
   Clearing and
   Settlement
   Messaging
   Reference Data
   Order and Execution
   Management
   Market Venue
   Connectivity
   Smart Order
   Routing
   Algorithmic
   Trading
   Matching Engines
   Market Data
   Distribution
   

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7. We are Highly Effective in All of these Aspects of Quality Assurance
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   Quality Assurance:
   test planning and
   management
   Latency & capacity
   testing
   Intelligent Management
   of Large Data Sets
   Process audit and test
   coverage analysis
   Automated regression
   testing
   Gathering requirements
   and test scenario creation
   (human, message & reporting interfaces)
   Intelligent functional and
   exploratory testing
   Creating and productizing
   state-of-the-art
   test harnesses
   Test automation
   Test data management
   Protocol level testing using
   FIX/FAST, SOAP, HTTP, ITCH,
   SWIFT, MQ, SQL, proprietary
   binary and text based
   data formats, etc.
   

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8. Related Services: Our Main Customers have asked us to Add Value in Other
   Complimentary Areas (in Addition to QA) through which we Gain Additional Depth
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   Complimentary
   Areas
   (Additional
   Depth)
   Developing trading and post-trade systems and
   their components
   Code review
   Unit testing
   Data cleanup & migration
   Business analysis from
   historic data
   Prototyping new systems
   Tuning and optimization
   Customization and
   integration of trading and
   post-trade platforms
   Supporting legacy
   applications
   

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9. Our Team
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10. Our Team
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