FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Fairfax, Virginia, April 15, 2011 – Exprentis, a Virginia-based provider of regulatory compliance solutions for the financial services industry, and Howard University announced completion of its STTR (Small-business technology Transfer Research) Phase IIA project sponsored National Science Foundation. The project was an extension of the STTR Phase II which aimed at use of semantic rule-based technologies for development, utilization, and maintenance of Regulatory Knowledge Bases. In a collaborative effort, a team of Howard University researches helped to analyze the current and emerging knowledge representation standards, while the Exprentis team focused on developing an adapter that transfer the Exprentis' Regulatory Knowledge Base content to/from media files formatted according to the Rule Interchange Format (RIF), a standard issued by the WWW Consortium. "Together with the Howard University team, we have researched several emerging standards for representation of ontologies and rules, we selected the RIF standard as the most universal and with growing acceptance by the industry players. Today, I am pleased to announce that we have a RIF adapter that will help to make our Regulatory Knowledge Base more portable, therefore reachable a wider audience of users." – said Dr. Roman Vichr, Exprentis' Principal of Technology and Engineering.

About Exprentis, Inc.
Exprentis is a software solutions firm providing products and services targeted to the regulatory compliance and risk management needs of financial services firms. Exprentis' services include analytical model analysis and fine tuning, creation of custom scenarios or detection models, technology research and feasibility studies, and regulatory knowledge engineering. Exprentis' products include knowledge bases and software agents that help to automate compliance processes, enhance workflow, ensure consistency of analysis and reporting, and improve return on investment in high end monitoring solutions. For more information go to www.exprentis.com.