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"Corticon provides our business teams with the ability to fully control the rules by which D-reizen operates, enabling secure, real-time online transactions" Hans Opdam at D-reizen.

Contact: Dennis M. O'Connor, Jr. Peter Arnold Associates +1 781.239.1030 ext. 114 doconnor@parnold.com Mark Allen Corticon Technologies, Inc. +1 650.212.2424, ext. 211 mark@corticon.com

ANALYST FIRM POSITIONS CORTICON IN LEADERS' QUADRANT OF 2005 BUSINESS RULE ENGINE MAGIC QUADRANT

SAN MATEO, CA., February 22, 2005—Corticon™ Technologies, the leading provider of business rules management software, today announced being positioned in the Leaders' quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Business Rule Engines, 2005.^* Gartner, the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, positions vendors based on their vision and ability to execute that vision. According to the report, Leaders are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. The 2005 Business Rules Engine Magic Quadrant also denotes that vendors in the Leaders quadrant are most likely to have high revenue in this market, high market share in terms of customers and products that are of interest to a wide audience.

"The increased emphasis on business agility is driving many organizations to BREs," wrote Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, Jim Sinur. The report also noted that "The phrase might be 'on demand' or 'just in time', but there is a premium on agility for most business sectors today, and we only expect the demand for agility to increase during the next 10 years."

"We view our position in OEM and Reseller relationships, along with our direct customer wins, as an indication of where the rules market is going. The market is voting for a solution that delivers new levels of control to the business," said Mark Allen, co-founder and CEO of Corticon Technologies. "We have approached the problem from the business's point of view, and in doing so, we have delivered not only new levels of business-friendly control, but also the most advanced technology to assure the quality and reliability of automated business rules."

As part of its analysis of the Business Rule Engine (BRE) marketplace, Gartner divided the rules requirements into nine categories for evaluation purposes in How to Develop a List of Business Rules Engine Selection Requirements, February 1, 2005.

• Business rule representation and coverage
• Ease of use in operation/development and administration
• Performance and scalability
• Integration support
• Advanced inference features
• Rule management features for the execution engine
• Vertical/horizontal template support
• Rule repository for global rule management
• Costing/pricing models

Corticon is differentiated by its business-friendly rules modeling environment, which speeds time-to-market and time-to-change by 10x relative to traditional business rules engines and coding techniques. Corticon offers the industry's first standalone desktop business rules modeler, enabling business users to create business rule sets using spreadsheet-like models instead of programming code. In addition, Corticon offers the only technology that mathematically verifies the reliability of business rules as a part of the modeling process, through patent-pending technology known as the Predicate Logic Matrix™. Unlike other business rules solutions, Corticon-modeled rules are guaranteed to deliver their intended result, providing a logically complete and unambiguous decision for every possible outcome. As a result, Corticon enables organizations to streamline operational processes, ensure compliance with corporate policies and regulations, and increase agility and flexibility to adapt business processes as the marketplace changes.

Once verified and tested, these rules are automatically deployed as Web Services, enabling standards-based integration to automate decision steps across corporate processes and applications. Customer examples include Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPPA compliance initiatives, loan pricing and selection in banking, claims adjudication in insurance, complex service pricing in telecommunications, and supplier selection in manufacturing.

^* Magic Quadrant for Business Rule Engines, February 8, 2005, written by Jim Sinur

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About Corticon Technologies, Inc.
Corticon™ Technologies helps organizations make better, faster decisions by managing the rules that drive their business. Corticon Business Rules Management, which delivers a next generation business rules modeler and business rules engine, ensures the consistent, efficient and reliable execution of a company's strategies and policies. Unlike competitive products that require skilled programmers, Corticon's solution is for use by business analysts who find it as easy to use as a spreadsheet. This results in transformational productivity improvements in key business processes.

Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., with an engineering center in Culver City, Calif., Corticon is a venture-backed, privately held company. For additional information on Corticon and its solutions call +1 650-212-2424 or visit the company's Web site at www.corticon.com.