Corticon Leads in Business Rules Platform for Business Analysts According to Independent Research Firm

San Mateo, CA – Corticon® Technologies today announced that it was recognized as having the strongest offering as a Business Rules Platform for Business Analysts along with being a strong performer in delivering Business Rules Platforms for IT in The Forrester Wave™: Business Rules Platforms, Q1 2006 report. Business rules platforms allow development, deployment and management of the business rules that automate decisions.

Based on a comprehensive analysis of top business rules vendors that incorporated 174 evaluation criteria, the Forrester Wave report, led by Forrester Research Analyst and Vice President, John Rymer, recognized Corticon as having the strongest offering as well as the strongest combined product and corporate strategy, for delivering Business Rules Platforms to business analysts.

“John Rymer writes ‘Business rules platforms are an increasingly popular alternative to conventional programming to automate decisions, analysis to action, and policy compliance,” said Mark Allen, CEO of Corticon Technologies.

“Corticon is tops for Business Rules Platforms For Business Analysts And Users riding the strength of its rich decision table tool and heavy use of declarative development techniques,” noted John Rymer, in The Forrester Wave™: Business Rules Performs, Q1 2006. “Corticon’s environment requires no programming for any aspect of business rules application development, which is unique among the products in this evaluation.”

Combined with a strong performance as a business rules system for IT developers, the report cited that “The Corticon Suite is strong in business analyst tools, such as testing and rule change management, fits well within Java deployment environments and works well with BPM products from a number of vendors.”

“Corticon has strived to create a business rules platform that is an exceptionally productive solution for IT developers, but is also very accessible for non-traditional users such as business analysts,” said Allen “Utilizing our patent-pending business rules system, our customers are able to develop rule-based applications at 90% lower cost than traditional approaches while embracing a much broader user community. We sincerely believe that by taking this approach, Corticon is expanding the reach of and market for business rules software.”

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About Corticon Technologies, Inc.
Corticon’s Business Rules Management System (BRMS) helps organizations eliminate their policy-execution gap; the gap between what executives want to happen (“policy”) and what actually occurs (“execution”). Many of the world’s most successful organizations rely on Corticon-powered solutions to eliminate operational risk, reduce operational cost, and improve operational agility. Corticon’s patent-pending BRMS delivers the industry’s only business rules modeling, analysis and automation that can ensure the consistent, efficient and reliable execution of a company’s business rules and policies. Unlike competitive products that require skilled programmers, Corticon BRMS is as easy to use as a spreadsheet, thus empowering business users and lowering total cost of ownership. Corticon can be reached at www.corticon.com or at +1-650-212-2424. Corticon is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif.