Oracle Engineered Systems and Triple Point Technology

SuccESSful vOlaTiliTy managEmEnT fOr cOmmOdiTiES

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commodity Xl for Oil Extreme commodity volatility and increased supply chain complexity are the new normal in the oil industry. Consumption is rising in emerging markets such as China and India, and according to McKinsey, oil demand is likely to grow faster than supply capacity. Keeping pace will be challenging – procuring more output from existing oil fields is costly, and the logistics, supply systems, and political alignment needed to extract oil from new sources are complex, expensive, and time‑consuming. All of this, combined with supply Triple Point Technology’s Commodity disruptions due to severe weather XL for Oil™ is the only solution enabling events and political instability, make exploration & production companies, the oil markets rife for continued price oil marketers, and refiners to achieve spikes and major supply chain issues. balance between profitable trading, To succeed, oil companies must have marketing, scheduling, logistics, and sophisticated systems that do more than risk management in today’s volatile, just capture and transact data. complex environment.

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The multi‑commodity solution delivers advanced, real‑time business intelligence, supporting faster, smarter decisions that maximize profitability and mitigate risk. With Commodity XL for Oil, companies can:

• Optimizedealprofitabilityacross trading, risk, and logistics

• Respondrapidlytomarketeventswith instant access to real‑time data and analysis tools

• Achievecompletecontrolover physical operations

• Mitigateoperationalriskbyenabling end‑to‑end straight‑through processing

KEY BENEFITS

Gain an integrated, real-time view of physical and financial position

Minimize operational risk with straight-through processing from trade to delivery

Achieve total control over physical operations, including transport and storage releases

Accelerate risk and scenario analysis with instant access to accurate data

Manage all key risk areas: market, operational, counterparty credit, and regulatory

Achieve the fastest end-of-day processing times for high transaction volumes

Deploy a flexible, scalable architecture to accommodate future growth

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KEY FUNCTIONALITY

Capture complex pricing structures

Track inventory levels across storage facilities, ports, and terminals

Perform risk and sensitivity analyses

Enable electronic confirmation matching

Handle pipeline scheduling complexities

Support multiple currencies, commodities, and exchanges across all geographies

commodity Xl for Oil customers include:

• China National Offshore Oil Corp.

• CITGO Petroleum Corp.

• RelianceIndustries

• Saras Oil

• SK Energy

• Suncor Energy

• Tesoro Petroleum

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Triple Point Oil industry Solution Brief

commodity Xl Overview Brochure

Triple Point’s commodity Xl PhysOps ‘visual cockpit’

Triple Point mobile inventory navigator

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commodity Xl for agriculture In recent years, world agricultural markets have seen a surge in prices and volatility due to poor harvests, sustained demand, increased use of agricultural products for fuel, heightened activity on commodity markets, and soaring fuel and fertilizer costs.

The only thing that can be said about management solution that manages volatility with any certainty is that it is the complete agriculture supply chain, here to stay. Without a transparent, including farm origination, aggregation, integrated view of physical and financial processing, trading, import/export, position in real‑time, agriculture and local distribution on a single, companies cannot minimize the impact real‑time platform. The solution of volatility on the bottom line or plan delivers advanced, real‑time business effectively for the future. intelligence to support faster, smarter

decisions that maximize profitability andTriple Point’s Commodity XL for mitigate risk.Agriculture™ is the only fully integrated, end‑to‑end, multi‑commodity and risk

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With Commodity XL for Agriculture companies can:

• Achievereal-time,enterprise-wide visibility into physical and financial exposure

• Optimizesupplychainoperations with comprehensive, industry‑specific logistics management

• Respondquicklytounplanned events with instant access to advanced risk analytics and business intelligence

• Integratecashandderivativetrading while aggregating risk within and across multiple commodities

• Planforfuturegrowthwitha flexible, scalable architecture

KEY BENEFITS

Streamline operations with enhanced inventory management

Manage all key risk areas: market, operational, counterparty credit, and regulatory

Enable inter-company trading to provide a single point of entry and synchronization

Deliver the fastest end-of-day processing times for high transaction volumes

Improve farmer relationships by embedding derivatives in cash contracts

Simplify compliance by enabling corporate and accounting controls

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KEY FUNCTIONALITY

Deliver a single, real-time platform for global position and financial reporting

Accelerate risk and scenario analysis with instant access to accurate data

Handle complex cash and derivative trading

Measure and account for qualities including protein, moisture, grade, and foreign material

Support multiple currencies, commodities, and exchanges across all geographies

commodity Xl for agriculture customers include:

• ArcherDanielsMidland

• ArmajaroTrading

• BungeLimited

• MerconCoffee

• Nidera

• Nutreco

• AlfredC.ToepferInternationalGmbH

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Triple Point ags fact Sheet

commodity Xl Overview Brochure

commodity Xl for Biofuels Brochure

Triple Point mobile commodity Trader fact Sheet

Seaboard case Study

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Oracle High Performance commodity Trading Platform OracleHighPerformanceCommodityTrading(HPCT)isthe foundation for growing the commodity trading business and mitigating its operational risk.

HPCTisaplatformtosupporthigh transaction volumes and calculations, provide high‑speed connectivity to run various trading applications, and process and analyze massive data feeds in real‑time.

The key differentiator between electronic trading market participants is the speed at which they can capture and process market data into opportunities.

Until recently, managing the dynamics of multiple markets, large portfolios, and massiveamountsofdataquicklyhas beenunattainableattherequiredprice/ performance point.

Meanwhile, the geographic spread of today’s trading business imposes the need for immediate replication of databases and information to effectively calculate risks and fulfill orders.

Throwing more hardware at the problem and creating more bottlenecks in performance, transparency, and equipmentmanagementisnolonger a viable option.

Highperformancetradingplatforms and the ability to execute calculations on large data sets are not just competitive advantages, they are an absolute necessity.

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Key Benefits

• Increaseoperationalefficiencies through faster trade reconciliation and automatic detection of trade exceptions

• Balancethecomplexityofasset portfolio with trade/transaction volume

• Mitigateoperationalrisksassociated with system availability

• Reduce/eliminateerrorsassociated with manual, duplicate, and inaccurate data entry points

• ReduceITcostsand improve governance

KEY FunctionalitY

Deliver a high performance real-time data management appliance

Integrate a single platform for trading and settlement applications, risk management tools, and real-time market data feeds

Improve processing capacity and high performance inter-application integration

Obtain centralized data management via a highly available system with non-fault tolerance and on demand analytics

Optimize architecture for faster calculation and elimination of duplicate and inaccurate data entry points

Receive a complete scalable package of servers, storage, networking, database, and software

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Oracle Engineered Systems Extreme Performance. fastest deployment. lowest cost. Oracle designs engineered systems that are pre‑integrated to reduce the cost and complexity of IT infrastructures while increasing productivity and performance. Only Oracle can innovate and optimize at every layer of the stack to simplify data center operations, drive down costs, and accelerate business innovation.

Extreme performance—doing something For Oracle customers, it is not only about faster, better, or more efficiently than speedierqueryresultsorsignificantly it has ever been done before. It’s the higher throughput. It’s not only about hallmark of Oracle Engineered Systems how you can go from box to clustered and the ultimate embodiment of Oracle’s database in a few hours or how your drive to simplify IT. users can deploy an application with just

a few clicks.

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It’s about taking advantage of new opportunities, discovering new areas of efficiency, and enabling innovation to deliver the kind of results and business performance that—until now—simply weren’t possible.

Oracle Engineered Systems combine best‑of‑breed hardware and software components with game‑changing technicalinnovations.Designed, engineered, and tested to work best together. The components of Oracle Engineered Systems are preassembled for targeted functionality and then—

as a complete system—optimized for extreme performance.

Bytakingtheguessworkoutofthesehigh-availability, purpose‑built solutions, Oracle delivers a sophisticated simplicity that’s completely integrated throughout every layer of the technology stack—a simplicity that translates into less risk and lower costs for your business.

Extreme performance. Less risk. Lowest cost. Only from Oracle.

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Why Oracle?

• OracleEngineeredSystemsare optimized to achieve enterprise performance levels that are unmatched in the industry

• Fastertimetoproductionisachieved by implementing pre‑engineered and pre‑assembled hardware and software bundles

• Single-vendorstacksimplifiesand reduces the costs associated with purchasing, deploying, and supporting IT environments

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Oracle Exadata database machine: Extreme Performance. lowest cost.

Oracle Exalogic Elastic cloud: World’s Best foundation for applications

Oracle SParc Supercluster: Extreme consolidation and rapid cloud Services

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Oracle and Triple Point Enabling your Business innovation through Performance. Unprecedented volatility and complexity in today’s commodity markets is triggering earnings uncertainty that makes it difficult to run a profitable business and plan for the future.

To be successful, companies need mitigate commodity price risk and advanced solutions that empower optimize an end‑to‑end commodity value smarter, faster decision‑making by chain by delivering real‑time trading, risk rapidlyanalyzingthehugequantities management, and business intelligence of data generated by day‑to‑day tools on a lightning‑fast hardware operations. Together, Oracle and Triple platform capable of handling the Point Technology help you successfully demands of today’s trading rooms.

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TheOracleExadataDatabaseMachine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud provide a foundation for Commodity XL and Commodity SL which enables them to significantly outperform all other commoditytradingplatforms.Byproviding rapid access to accurate information, the combined Oracle and Triple Point solution allowstradingmanagerstoquicklyidentify new business opportunities.

In tests done in the Oracle Exastack Labs, the Triple Point platforms performed 8.5x faster than current top of the line architectures, reducing end of day processing times and improving overall performance.

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Why Oracle and Triple Point?

• TriplePointhasachievedOracle Exadata Optimized and Oracle Exalogic Optimized status for its Commodity XL and Commodity SL trading and risk management platforms. The Oracle Exastack Optimized Program shows our valued mutual customers that Triple Point has tested its applications at the Oracle Exastack Labs and that their applications have been tuned to deliver optimum speed, scalability, and reliability.

• TriplePoint‘sapplicationshavealso achievedOracleExadataReadyand OracleExalogicReadystatus.The OracleExastackReadyprogram provides customers with the confidence that an Oracle Exastack Readyapplicationissupportedand ready to run with Oracle Engineered Systems.

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• OracleEngineeredSystemsenable partners such as Triple Point to delivertheirsoftwarewithHardware and Software Engineered to Work Together. That’s Innovation. Lowering the complexity of your deployment. Lowering your TCO. Lowering your Risk.Significantlyenhancingyour performance. Significantly reducing your storage. Significantly enhancing your ability to deploy your solutions quicker,faster,better,cheaper.

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