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Corticon Technologies Achieves Third Consecutive Record Year.


Record Growth in Revenue, New Customers and Partners, and Profitability

REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- Corticon Technologies, the leader in model-driven Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS BRMS Business Rule Management Systems
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), today announced that it has continued its growth trend of the prior two years by again almost doubling its year-to-year growth in customers and new business bookings. Adjusted free cash flow was again significantly positive for the year. The results are for Corticon's FY 2006, which ended August 31, 2006. Corticon is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market
close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation
.

"2006 has been another tremendous year for the company," said Dr. Mark Allen, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Corticon. "I am very pleased by the company's progress in the last 12 months, but I am even more pleased with the successes our customers have seen and the recognition that seems to be emerging for what makes Corticon's solution so different from our competitors' offerings. The company has made progress on all fronts and early traction in our new fiscal year suggests our plans to continue our industry leading growth of the past three years is very realistic."

Key highlights which contributed to Corticon's progress covers several critical areas of their business including:

* Financial: Corticon's compounded annual growth rate (CAGR CAGR

See: Compound Annual Growth Rate
) in new business bookings over the three year period ended August 31, 2006 was 82% as compared with the Business Rules market (CAGR) of 17%* over the same period. Corticon was again cash positive in fiscal 2006 as it was in fiscal 2005 with the business producing an adjusted operating margin Operating Margin

A ratio used to measure a company's pricing strategy and operating efficiency.

Calculated by:
 (bookings over operating expenses Operating expenses

The amount paid for asset maintenance or the cost of doing business, excluding depreciation. Earnings are distributed after operating expenses are deducted.
) of almost 10% in fiscal 2006.

* Customer: Corticon doubled its customer base in 2006. Ninety percent of Corticon's customers are Fortune 500 companies, with concentrations across financial services, telecommunications and government. Corticon's customer base generally reflects all major vertical categories. Corticon's customer base is regionally broken out as follows: 40% North America; 40% EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets.  and 20% Asia-Pacific.

* Partners: Corticon established critical new partnerships and delivered new business with partners including; Adobe Systems, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Global360, and IDS Scheer.

* Product: In 2006, Corticon delivered Version 4 of its industry leading Business Rules Management System. Key innovations included the industry's first model-driven database access capabilities for a business rules system which acts as an alternative to stored procedures and SQL SQL
 in full Structured Query Language.

Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results.
 coding. Also introduced was Corticon Collaborator, a system that allows business teams to effectively manage access, security and deployment of business rules based solutions.

* Technology: Corticon's first patent was issued in 2006 (United States Patent 7,020,869). The patent; "Business Rules User Interface for Development of Adaptable Enterprise Applications," relates to the numerous innovations introduced in the award-winning Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio, a core part of the Corticon BRMS.

* Market Validation: Building on top of Gartner positioning Corticon in the Leader Quadrant in the Gartner Business Rules Magic Quadrant. Forrester Research reported that Corticon Leads in Business Rules Platforms for Business Analysts in their Forrester Wave: Business Rules Platforms report for 2006. Corticon was also named by Intelligent Enterprise in their "Companies to Watch." In addition, the company was named a Jolt! Productivity Winner by Dr. Dobbs Journal.

* Team: Key new team members have joined at all levels of the company. Gino Padua joined as SVP SVP S'il Vous PlaƮt (French: Please)
SVP Senior Vice President
SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party)
SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
SVP Social Venture Partners
SVP St Vincent de Paul
 Worldwide Sales rounding out Corticon's management team. Jim Thanos, a well recognized sales and marketing executive joined Corticon's board. The company has doubled its worldwide employee base during FY2006.

* Based on the 2006 IDC Report Worldwide Business Rules Management Systems 2006-2010 Forecast and 2005 Vendor Shares (September 2006 - Document 203627)

About Corticon Technologies, Inc.

Corticon's Business Rules Management System gives companies the ability to model and automate recurring decisions within their enterprise systems. Many of the world's most successful organizations rely on Corticon-powered solutions to drive IT efficiencies and operational excellence through decision automation. Consistently recognized as a leading rules vendor by industry analysts and thought leaders, Corticon's patented BRMS is the only solution with a model-driven design environment that guarantees the consistent, efficient and reliable execution of a company's business rules and policies. Corticon is a privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
 headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA, with worldwide distribution through an extensive partner network. Corticon's products are in use today at many of the world's largest banks, insurance carriers, media companies, telecom providers and government organizations, collectively automating millions of decisions per day. Corticon can be reached at www.corticon.com or at +1-650-212-2424.
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